Of course I didn't stop there! I put a fairly tame overclock on the Raspberry Pi. Just for kicks I overclocked to 20mhz on the FX chip emulation in Star Fox which had a noticeable and positive effect on gameplay (which is to say faster and smoother than the original hardware.) Overclocking the FX chip dropped FPS down to about 54.

It was still completely playable, but some times took about a 5fps hit.

FPS varied between 55.1 to 60.1 with barley any noticeable effect. Then I tested both games in the same exact manner but with the current snes9x core. Absolutely playable (I had to pull myself away from Star Fox to continue testing.) Both played and looked very close to the original (except for the flat panel display naturally). I olayes through the first two areas on each game. I tested Star Fox and Super Mario World 2 as they use Super FX chip models one and two respectively.įirst I used snes9x 2010 on a complete stock Retropie install (current version on a 3b). However, I love to tinker so I decided to play around a little to see what would happen. If you are looking for a highly accurate emulator with better performance that is easier to use than higan, check out bsnes instead.That does make sense and I trust that decision was the correct one to make. If you have questions or comments, there is an official message board for higan.īecause of higan's quirkiness, the author has resumed development of bsnes. Higan is also available for OS X and Linux, but you have to compile it yourself. The author of higan calls this system 'Game Paks, ' and a full explanation is available on the official site. Things like save states and save games are then stored alongside in that folder. It will put each game into its own folder. It'll copy every ROM you load with it to an 'Emulation' folder in your home folder (this is configurable). The way higan handles ROMs is also a little different. Even for playing full screen no hotkey is assigned by default. For example, one thing you may need to do is configuring the controls as by default no keymap is set up.

Nintendo Super Famicom (Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo)Ī particular quirk of higan is that its interface is not the friendliest.

You may want to check if there are better emulators available for the other consoles in this list. Out of this list, its Super Nintendo ( Super Famicom) and Gameboy Advance support is the best. Higan supports emulating the following consoles.

Bsnes vs snes9x