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We already saw how to replay those old classics for DOSbut did you ever wonder how to play your old super nintendo games on linux? Well actually, this is pretty straightforward. You just have to download an emulator, download the ROM corresponding to the game you want to play and that's it. Let's see how to do it… |
Download and install the emulator for SNES
There are several SNES emulators available for Linux. Among others, BSNES, SNES9X and ZSNES, the latter being the best of all.
The 32-bit version is in the Ubuntu universe repositories, so to install it I simply opened a terminal and wrote:
sudo apt-get install zsnes
The big disadvantage of ZSNES is that a 64-bit version is not available. Until now ... 🙂
For install this gem in its 64-bit version, simply download the package (see below) and install it. That easy.
Download ROMs of the games
Do you remember the old game cartridges for Super Nintendo? Well, they were nothing more than ROMs (read-only memories). In order to use those games we need to get hold of the files that were contained in those memories. Fortunately, on the Internet there are several pages where we can get practically all the games.
Some pages to visit:
- emugamesworld
- freeroms
- SNES Classics
- Rom hustler
- Dope roms
- emulanium
Load ROMs to ZSNES
Once you've downloaded the ROMs for your favorite games, unzip them. When decompression finished, I opened ZSNES. You can find it in Games> ZSNES Emulator. Then go to Game> Load. Find the path where you unzipped your ROMs and choose your favorite game.
That's all folks!
Enjoy drinking a good chocolate milk and remembering old times!
How do I find the ROOMS?
Thank you…
Not that I know. It could be an interesting topic for a future post! In a few days I might write about it.
Cheers! Paul.
I installed zsnes once and then I couldn't use it anymore. It is in Ubuntu 12.10. Now, no matter how much I install or uninstall it with the software center, there is always the shortcut in the launcher but I will not open it
Regarding the PS2 emulator, the PCSX2, is there a tutorial on how to configure it?
Thank you
AWESOME!! very good contribution ... I'm going to prepare a Toddy hahaha
It is not for being an idiot spoiler, but one "legally" can only own the ROM of the original game, in this case own the cartridge. otherwise, it must be eliminated in 24 hours. At least that's what the disclaimer says when you download the roms.
However, there are many games that have been released with the graphics engines, like ID, where the ports exist and a lot of people do new levels and things; for example DukeNuken3D, Doom, etc.
ms-dos games fall into the category of abandonware, meaning that the companies have expired the license of the game and do not consider it necessary to renew it.
then you don't need to download roms because you already have the original game
Thanks Gabriel! It is very likely that it is so.
The truth is that I never tried it. I always unzipped it. 😛
Your method is even more comfortable and simple.
Another very good emulator for Snes is the Snes9x-gtk
I have a Dell Inspiron with ubuntu 10. something (I can't remember correctly) with core i3 2.20 ghz 4GB ram 500 GB HDD and I want to install ZSNES to play games like Donkey Kong Country 1,2 & 3, Mario World, Kart, RPG & All Star, all Indiana Jones, Demon Crest, Mortal Kombat Ultimate, 2 & 3, I would appreciate if you can reply to my email adrian.juarez19@hotmail.com o 15@gmail.com.
Thanks guys.
How do I find the ROOMS ???
thanks ..
I have not tried it in linux, but the windows version allows to open the roms even without decompressing, I suppose it will also work in the penguin version 🙂
Zsnes is the best SNES emulator out there, it runs well even on modest computers.
It seems to me that being written in 32-bit assembler, it can make it difficult to write a 64-bit version with the same characteristics, so for the moment it remains to use 32-bit libraries and dependencies to make it work well.
Unless that package contains the ZSNES already written in 64-bit assembler ... I imagine quite a feat ...
This emulator is absolutely great, 100% recommended.
On jaunty I had to do a little trick to perfect the sound. Since I write a text file every time I fix something, I have taken a look and here I have it, hope it helps you:
edit the file ~ / .zsnes / zsnesl.cfg and find the line where it says something like:
libAoDriver = »auto»
and change for
libAoDriver = »press»
regards
Yes. That is also very good.
Anyway, I've been comparing them and I'm sticking with zsnes. The audio / video "skips" one minus and I had no problem with any of the games I tried. I really recommend it.
Cheers! Paul.
Look at the post in the section entitled Download ROMs of the games?
this program has a drawback ... what happens is that if you have PCSX it won't install you, or it simply uninstalls your play 1 emulator ... pay attention to that 🙂 Saludps
One question, do the roms have to be loaded in a special folder? because I give it "load", I choose the rom and it tells me "BAD ROM // CHKSUM fail". Suppose the rom is with some problem, under a lot of different places and gives the same error ... Any ideas?
Hello! The truth is that I do not know why you throw that error. No, the ROMS do not need to be in a special folder. If it says CHKSUM fail it is almost certainly because they did not go down well. I kept trying others. It's all I can think of to tell you ...
Cheers! Paul.
Interesting fact! Thanks for sharing it!
Cheers! Paul.
I have a computer with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bits, but there are complications at the time of installation and execution of the program, I have tried bnes and it does not present any complications, however I would like you to help me with some solution to install the ZSNES in ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bits since it seems to me a better emulator ... Greetings and thanks for the contribution.
For those with a reasonably powerful computer I recommend bsnes http://byuu.org/
Interesting, but today we have better emulators than ZSNES.
Thanks anyway for the article. Regards.
I downloaded the emulator, what happens is that there is no audio from the games
does anyone know how to install 9 bit Snes64x-gtk in debian testing? says package not found. Thank you ... sometimes the zsnes crashes.
it didn't work for me. but anyway thanks XD
The 64-bit one did not work, it is allowed to install but does not open = (
The 64-bit version is now available from Ubuntu 14.04
Tells me:
sudo:apt:command not found
Help ,,, I have 32-bit snes ,,, I had some problems with the direct and I solved them, but when I load a rom the screen freezes, it never loads and it says »snesx9 has stopped working» and closes ,,, What I can do ???
I install it in Ubuntu 14 and every 30 or 40 min, it hangs, it doesn't get anything, I have to do f11 or f12 and it comes out, but I have to restart