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NAME

       bsnes - Accurate SNES/Super Famicom emulator

SYNOPSIS

       bsnes <ROM location>

OPTIONS

       <ROM location> -- from the command line, you can supply the name of a ROM file as an argument to start playing that ROM

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

       F11 -- toggle fullscreen mode

DESCRIPTION

       bsnes  is  a  Super  Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator that strives to provide the most faithful hardware emulation possible. It focuses on
       accuracy and clean code, rather than speed and special features. It is meant as a reference emulator to document how the  underlying  hard-
       ware  works. It is thus very useful for development and research. And while it can be used for general purpose gaming, it will require sig-
       nificantly more powerful hardware than a typical emulator. Although not as polished as the SNES emulation (yet), there is also support  for
       NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance games.

Supported Filetypes
       SFC: SNES cartridge -- ROM image.

       BS: Satellaview BS-X flash cartridge -- EEPROM image.

       ST: Sufami Turbo cartridge -- ROM image.

       SRM, PSR: non-volatile memory, often used to save game data -- (P)SRAM image.

       GB/GBC/GBA: Gameboy (Color/Advance) cartridge -- ROM image.

       NES/FC: NES cartridge -- ROM image.

       Note that bsnes can not open ROMs with different filename extensions or with copier headers.

Known Limitations
       Satellaview  BS-X emulation: this hardware is only partially supported. This is mostly because the satellite network it used (St. GIGA) has
       been shut down. Access to this network would be required to properly reverse engineer much of  the  hardware.  Working  around  this  would
       require	game-specific  hacks,  which  are contrary to the design goals of this emulator. As a result, most BS-X software will not function
       correctly.

       Netplay: internet multiplay is not currently supported nor planned.

PROFILES

       bsnes comes with three profiles, where "accuracy" and "compatibility" are focused on accuracy in emulating the  SNES  (compatibility  makes
       minor tradeoffs in favor of speed) and "performance" is focused on using less resources. Which profile to use can be set with:

       # update-alternatives --config bsnes-bin

SYSTEM FOLDERS

       bsnes does not only need ROMs containing games, but also data that was originally stored in chips belonging to the consoles. The files con-
       taining this data are organized in system folders. The system folders contain system info and  firmware/BIOS  images  and  are  located	in
       "$HOME/.config/bsnes".  For example, to play GBA games, a GBA bios image is required. The file has to be named "bios.rom" and placed inside
       the "Game Boy Advance.sys" folder in "$HOME/.config/bsnes". The checksum of the file has to match the one given	in  "/usr/share/bsnes/Game
       Boy Advance.sys/manifest.xml".

SEE ALSO

       bsnes-purify(6), laevateinn(6)

MORE INFO

       Website: http://byuu.org/bsnes/

BSNES AUTHOR

       byuu

MAN PAGE AUTHORS

       Brandon Barnes, Tobias Hansen

								  August 5, 2011							  bsnes(6)