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ZSNES is a legendary Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator with its roots stretching back to the DOS era . Created by zsKnight and Demo, the last major release of this seminal hand-tuned, assembly-coded emulator was nearly two decades ago. It has been reborn this week as Super ZSNES with “super enhancements” powered by your system’s GPU . Rewritten from scratch by the aforementioned dynamic duo, Super ZSNES now boasts “far more accurate CPU and audio cores than the original ZSNES,” as well as a “GPU-powered PPU core.”

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Before deciding to go ahead with this project, zsKnight had pondered what to do differently for a reboot. The dev told MVG, “I had to brainstorm a bit, thinking what I could do differently.…