ZSNES is a free SNES emulator written mostly in x86 assembly with official ports for Linux, MS-DOS, Mac, and Windows.
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Development of ZSNES began on July 3, 1997 and the first version was released on October 14, 1997, for MS-DOS. Since then, official ports have been made for Windows and Linux. The emulator became free software under the GPL license on April 2, 2001. It is still being actively developed despite the departure of its original developers zsKnight and _Demo_.
ZSNES is notable in that it was among the first to emulate most SNES enhancement chips at some level.
Due to being written in low-level assembly language for x86 processors, it is not possible to port ZSNES to devices using RISC processors. Other than the first Xbox, no mainstream gaming device has ever used an x86 processor.
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ZSNES is currently one of the most popular SNES emulators available. Retro Gamer called ZSNES "very impressive."
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