Most people take emulation for granted, you can run emulators for your favorite system on your cellphone or on ancient palm pilots. But there was a time when it was just magical watching an NES game run at 2fps with no sound and tons of video corruption. Back then shortcuts were needed to get things moving, get things playable and make it possible for you to even enjoy the game. Now those shortcuts have lead to problems, sure if you play the top 20 or even top 50 games that everyone plays you might not notice anything wrong.
Start to veer off the beaten path and see some games just don’t work right, and it’s not because they aren’t dumped correctly. BSNES is taking aim at what emulation a SNES is all about, a perfect reproduction of hardware in software, no shortcuts. This doesn’t just benefit current gamer’s but future ones as well as the less accurate an emulator the less likely a game will be playable and one day it might be all we have to play said game.
BSNES is also trying to save fan translations from themselves as well. While it might be easy to write a patch for one emulator, if that patch breaks certain functions of the SNES another emulator might not run it. Now your fan patch may fade into the sunset just like the game you loved so dear. Check out the complete write up at ars technica and find out why you need nitric acid to help you program an emulator. while you may not able able to run BSNES on your phone, running it on your PC, you might start to appreciate all the hard work people put into the games of years past.
Source Link: ars technica
