snes9l

Lenny - 2012

1. Features and limitations

Customizations are more or less the same as VBAl. Compared to the original, I've changed a lot of stuff.

Unlike VBAl, this fork is not SDL-based. It directly hooks on to several features that are available on a linux/x11 system only, such as:

• ALSA/asound. Instead of a custom audio fifo, snes9l uses the one provided by asoundlib directly.
• X11, Xvlib and Xshm.
• Joystick device (/dev/input/js0).
• gettimeofday()/usleep() from glibc for timing.

2. Audio setup for Linux

I strongly advice anybody to disable pulseaudio and enable dmix instead. PulseAudio, like Mono and Gnome 3, is a computer virus and should be treated as such.

3. Links

Project page