We continue with articles related to games here at DesdeLinux. This time we'll talk about an application that many people know, but it's worth mentioning for those who don't, or for those who find this article while searching on Google.
ZSnes is an emulator for SNES (Super Nintendo) games, according to Wikipedia:
ZSNES is an SNES emulator. It was released in 1997 on the Internet and developed for DOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. ZSNES was written in Intel x86 assembly language. Therefore, it is not compatible with other architectures such as Macintosh, but since 2001 when it became free, an intense work is being done in porting the assembler routines to C.
Installation
We can find it in the repository of our distro, to install it:
On Debian, Ubuntu or derivatives:
sudo apt-get install zsnes
In ArchLinux or derivatives:
sudo pacman -S zsnes
[multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Then they must do:
sudo pacman -Sy
And voila, now they can install it.
When they install it, a question will appear in the terminal, regarding which libgl library to use, simply press Enter and voila, all the dependencies will be installed:
Once installed, we can find it through the Games category in the menu of our environment, for example in KDE:
Then they run it and voila.
Load games
To load games we must download them from somewhere, here is a list of some:
Then through the LOAD option we look for the game, in which we double click and voila, it will open.
Options
We can access the options through the CONFIG menu, there we see that we have options for input devices, devices in general, video, sound, etc.
We can, for example, change the default size of the screen, change the buttons of the 'controller' and set the desired keyboard keys, etc. etc.
Remember that ZSnes is an application that can't exactly be described as innovative, although there was talk of adding skin support to ZSnes and as far as I know it wasn't done ( which puts it at a disadvantage in terms of GUI compared to other emulators like PSP which I believe do support PSP themes directly ), more customization options... well, we don't find them in abundance.
Despite this, for those of us who enjoy playing Super Mario World, Zelda, Killer Instinct or other games, ZSnes is just the thing for us 