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I'm using the latest version of SNES9x, which is 1.60. I already have the BS-X BIOS ROM, and the BS Zelda game ROM. How do I name them? Do they need to have specific file names to work? And how do I need to link them together some how, so that the emulator will know to use them together? Is there so...

I never said it negated copyright to stop distribution. But it's more than out of distribution. The method of distribution (radio waves) left NO HARD COPIES. This is more complicated situation legally than just stopping cartridge distribution. When cartridges are no longer sold, the purchasers of ca...

hilarity i believe you should run that by any law student and see if they can keep a straight face. Yeah but the site DEDICATED to this game (and posting roms of it) says it's NOT illegal, because you can NOT buy it anywhere, and therefore does not cause Nintendo to lose money. And piracy is illega...

It's this line of thinking that is being used by the site that is distributing BS-Zelda roms, to justify it. And make no mistake, they aren't an illegal group pirating tons of games like some other sites are, just using BS-Zelda as a cover for other distribution which WOULD be illegal. Rather they a...

I believe this is also a 1st Amendment issue. The right to free speech means a person publishing speech has a right to publish whatever they want, but also means the consumer of speech has the right to consume the speech produced by others (listen to the verbal speech, read the book, play the game, ...

If I have a bug with a specific game (possibly even a specific rom file as different versions, mods/hacks, etc, have different code), and the developers for SNES9x need the rom to debug the emulator, how am I to provide the rom for the devs to test with the emulator? Also on another note. The site t...

What's defrosting? Is this some new feature?

It's more than just cheat entry that's buggy. Cheat loading at the beginning of the game is also buggy. That is if you load the game in question (at least with BS Zelda) it locks up when loading the game. To load that game you must deactivate cheats before loading the game. Also it should work at an...

Cheats that used to work in version 1.52 and earlier now don't in 1.53. My system that I'm working with is Windows XP Home, 32bit, and the emulator is version 1.53 of SNES9x. Some cheats even lock-up SNES9x now, and don't work properly in the game. For example the game BS-Zelda which has a built in ...

FINALLY finished my program. I made a thread about it here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5344
That thread has a download link for getting a copy of my program, plus instructions on how to use it.

I use VB6 because it comes as naturally to me as my own English language. Learning C would be like trying to learn Spanish. I've grown up on GW Basic in DOS since I was a kid. I was born in 1985. I learned VB when it became available on Windows, and I've been programming with it ever since. I've tri...

Never mind. I did a "last ditch attempt" and just ignored giving it an actual hash (left the 4 bytes of the ADLER32 hash as 00 00 00 00) hoping it would work, and it did. It actually decompressed it successfully! If I checked it's error function it likely would shown it returned a hash fai...

I'm not using GZip to decompress this. I'm using ZLib, but not ZLib.dll. ZLib.dll requires C programming to use. I'm using VB6, and even though VB6 does have ways of declaring libraries from DLL files, I've tried it and it doesn't work with ZLib.dll (works with most other dll files though). It seems...

Furthermore, I have discovered after decompressing the snes9x save state and finding the corresponding section of data in a ZST (ZSNES save state), that the SNES9x save state has the opposite endian for multibyte data types, when compared to ZST.

Fortunately though, 7zip can autodetect the compression and decompress it to raw data. But still if I'm going to write a program that converts it to a format that has the color palette in the same offset within the file as that of a ZST save file (so that standard SNES graphics rippers can find the ...

Also proof it's compressed is that when opened in a hex editor, instead of seeing the magic number "#!s9xsnp" at the beginning of the file, I see this instead 1F 8B 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 (hex digits shown because hex value 00 doesn't correspond to any printable text) Again, any help with th...

What I can tell you from simply loading different roms and dumping save states and examining the save states, is that they are COMPRESSED data. I can tell because every dump from every game generates is a different sized file, and when loading the dump into a raw graphics viewer I don't see anything...

Where can I download the source?

Is this open source, or is the exact specification of the file format used in the SNES9x 1.53 emulator a "company secret", intentionally hidden to PREVENT modification of any give SNES9x save file in a manner that would allow interoperability between SNES9x and ZSNES files, as ZSNES is bit...

What is the actual structure of the file generated when I do CTRL+F1 (or F2, etc)? I notice it looks nothing like the ZSNES save format, and many rom hacking programs use the ZSNES save format to extract data from the game. I have already phased out the old and inferior ZSNES as my SNES emulator of ...