emulator: PiSNES
type: standalone
core_classification: frozen_snapshot
source: "https://github.com/RetroPie/pisnes"
upstream: "https://sourceforge.net/projects/pisnes/"
profiled_date: "2026-10-20"
source_commit: "a5b427f255f922cfa65e29c4285b3d565a4c9044"
core_version: "1.39"
display_name: "Nintendo - SNES (PiSNES)"
mode: standalone
cores:
  - pisnes
systems:
  - nintendo-snes

notes: |
  Raspberry Pi port by Squid of Snes9x 1.39 (readme.txt:1-7,
  snes9x.h:44). RetroPie builds the tree with make, installs snes9x,
  snes9x.gui, snes9x.cfg.template and skins/, and launches snes9x with
  the ROM.

  main() moves to the binary's directory and reads snes9x.cfg there.
  ref: unix/unix.cpp:232, unix/unix.cpp:260-272

  The object list builds dsp1.o and leaves out the Super FX, C4, SA-1 and
  SPC7110 sources, which is why the readme names Star Fox and Yoshi's
  Island as not working. The SPC7110 graphics pack folders spc7110.cpp
  would read (SPL4-SP7, SMHT-SP7, FEOEZSP7, SJUMPSP7, MISC-SP7) are
  therefore never opened. S9xLoadSDD1Data, the S-DD1 graphics pack reader,
  is compiled and never called. No BS-X or Sufami Turbo BIOS is loaded by
  this version.
  ref: Makefile:33-39, readme.txt:9, spc7110.cpp:178-210, unix/unix.cpp:1239-1350

  The ROM is read as a file or from a zip archive. The <rom>.srm battery
  save and a <rom>.pat Game Genie or Pro Action Replay list beside the
  ROM are user files. skins/rpimenu16.bmp is the game list front end
  background.
  ref: unix/unix.cpp:376, snes9x.cpp:515-545, unix/frontend.cpp:169

exclusion_note: "no BIOS or coprocessor ROM is read, the SPC7110 pack reader is not built and the S-DD1 one is never called"
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