bsnes-classic

This fork of bsnes-classic also includes perfect emulation of Super FX and Super FX 2 games as well as an experimental upscaling 6xBRZ filter for OpenGL. All courtesy of Zenju, CarterLi and awjackson.

Building on Windows (64-bit)

• Get mingw-w64 with 64-bit Qt 4.8.6 and do a full installation of the exe (https://sourceforge.net/projects/qt64ng/files/qt/x86-64/4.8.6/mingw-4.9/seh/)
• Set following environment variables (right click on My Computer, then Properties, Advanced, Environment variables):  QTDIR to C:\Qt\4.X.X (or whatever path you installed QT) QMAKESPEC to win32-g++ and adjust PATH, add C:\Qt\4.X.X\bin and C:\MinGW\bin (or whatever path you installed MinGW)
• Logout/login or restart after changing environment variables, otherwise it won't work
• Run the terminal from minGW in the start menu and navigate to the Makefiles
• Run mingw32-make

Building with the original MinGW used to be the preferred way to do it, but made building "out of the box" annoying for various reasons (including requiring outdated DirectX headers/libs and problems with some native Windows code) and is no longer supported.

Building on OS X

• Install a C++ toolchain (Xcode is probably the easiest route)
• Install Qt 4.8 (get Brew and run brew install qt)
• Make sure the qtpath environment variable points to your Qt installation, ie. add export qtpath=/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.7_2 to .bash_profile.
• Run makefrom the bsnes directory.

If you're running macOS 10.12 Sierra you will (probably not) be able to install Qt4 using brew. If so, try installing this unofficial branch:

brew install cartr/qt4/qt
brew linkapps qt

Building on Linux / other *nix

As there is no configure step, make sure necessary Qt4/X11 packages are installed. On a Debian/Ubuntu system, it would require a command like:

apt-get install libqt4-dev libqt4-dev-bin libxv-dev libsdl1.2-dev libao-dev
libopenal-dev g++

Afterwards, run make and if everything works out correctly you will find the output binary in the out/ directory.

The snesfilter, snesreader, and supergameboy plugins can all be built by running make (or mingw32-make) after you've configured your environment to build bsnes itself. After building, just copy the .dll, .so, or .dylib files into the same directory as bsnes itself.

This fork of bsnes doesn't include the alternate UI based on byuu's phoenix library. The purpose of this fork is primarily to add additional UI functionality and I have no intention of implementing every new feature twice using completely different libraries just to keep both versions of the UI at parity.

bsnes v073 and its derivatives are licensed under the GPL v2; see Help > License ... for more information.

Contributors

See Help > Documentation ... for a list of authors.