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I've fixed the saved state trouble, but am not about to reimplement the L+R+Left and L+R+Right in-memory saved states, because the Snes9x core doesn't accept redirecting saved states to memory anymore.

For the saved state menu, I chose to save a state at /tmp/.svt so the emulator can back out if you don't choose a saved state to load. Creating a preview for the UI requires loading the state, emulating one frame and backing out to the state before entering the menu -- unfortunately I couldn't redirect that to memory anymore, so the state was not saved, so I couldn't back out and the previewed state stayed loaded. That's why you appeared to save copies of the same state over and over.

Some more fixups are required. I'll then make another release and update the OP.

Thank you so much for your work

What's next? A PSX emulator? 

I hope developers don't waste any time on that one. Not when so many other systems have a much better chance of performing well. I know an official TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine emulator would be well received.

At the end of the day though I am sure anything Nebuleon works on would be well received  . The community is certainly lucky to have this many talented people given the relatively small number of units sold.

Please do not derail this release thread. For PSX/PS1 discussion, please see /GCW Zero/Emulation/Ps1 emulation,current state? (Sorry if its been said to death).

I took the time to fix some bugs and add some requested features, and add new things created by hi-ban and JohnnyonFlame. This results in the 2014-01-03 build.

Download and test: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106475413/gcw-zero/PocketSNES-20140103-1.opk
as well as a pack of SNES game title screens to put into ~/.snes96_snapshots/previews, prepared by hi-ban: https://mega.co.nz/#!c0FiBATZ!Ivngwi7DY2RgQmpPGyvnDwdaDbkYsxOHCNYI3HIq7-c

Features and fixes:
- The full-screen scaler from snes9x4d has been added, and the full-screen user preference has been re-enabled. (d_smagin)
- The audio sampling rate option now accepts 32000 Hz, which is the rate used by the SNES itself for output. (Nebuleon)
- The saved state menu now writes a saved state to /tmp/ so it can back out of temporarily loading another state to preview it. This fixes writing the same saved state multiple times, as well as loading #0 with audio disabled when attempting to load any other state. (Nebuleon)
- Star Fox can now be played by those with photosensitive epilepsy. (gcc team)
- Saved states created for Yoshi's Cookie/US and possibly some European and Japanese titles do not freeze the emulator anymore when previewed. (Nebuleon)
- When playing Yoshi's Cookie/US and possibly some European and Japanese titles, the top 7 pixels of the screen no longer flicker between black and a part of the previous frame at 60 Hz. (Nebuleon)

Graphical changes:

- The PocketSNES icon is now inspired by the Super Famicom, which fits with the icon set started by ReGBA and Gambatte. (hi-ban)
- The background of the menu is now inspired by SNES box art, instead of looking like output from the Virtual Boy. (hi-ban)
- The settings of the Main Menu now have right-aligned values which fit in with the SNES box art theme. (Nebuleon)
- The selection bar is now a blending gradient from red to transparent. (JohnnyonFlame)
- The ROM selection interface can now display a background based on the game under the selection bar. The background must be a PNG file in ~/.snes96_snapshots/previews and be 24bpp, 282x186. (hi-ban, Nebuleon)
- The screenshots shown in the saved state menu are now larger, fitting in 205x154 instead of 160x120. (Nebuleon)

Awesome stuff, digging the new GUI design and all the updates.
Will update as soon as I get the chance, I was going to report the issues I was having with save states but it looks like it has been resolved already.
The new release being based on Snes9x 1.43-dev has definitely improved things, the current build now passes the hardware test on the Snes Test Program.

There are 2 "main" sets of roms out there.

- The "GoodSNES" romsets, with the names being in the format "Romname (E) [!]". It includes all versions of roms, including hacks, bad dumps, bootleg versions, etc... This makes a total of more than 11000 SNES roms, but most of them are clones and hacks (in other words, mostly rubbish).

- The "No-Intro" romsets, with names being in the format "Romname (Europe)". Most (if not all) preview packs out there, used by emulators with the Hyperspin frontend use the naming from this romsets, as those sets don't include rom hacks or bootlegs, only good dumps. Hence, this naming convention is also called "Hyperspin". This makes a total of about 3500 SNES roms, being most of them "official" roms.

There seems to be tools for renaming roms from GoodSNES sets into the No-Intro naming system, the people from the No-Intro project seems to have the renaming tools available here: http://no-intro.org/

However i don't know if there is any way of doing the opposite. So my recommendation is to convert your GoodSNES romset into a No-Intro romset, or download a No-Intro romset from the internet.

here is an updated PNG preview pack.

I fixed some typos in some files, and added a couple of previews.

Download here: https://mega.co.nz/#!hocEWDJS!DimgnD_5ulKpQy2hNWeqZ0hjpDh09iRJ6yIRnwHVHTw

Thank you Nebuleon, hi-ban and JohnnyonFlame! Your work is very much appreciated. 

Nebuleon and the Snes9x 1.43 core developers are the ones to be thankful for, I only coded this piece of UI:


Hi-ban actually did the design, while Nebuleon adapted the UI to follow suit. I only chimed in with a single gradient algorithm.

Really awesome update, I'll be much more likely to play SNES stuff on the Zero thanks to this 

Being nitpicky here, but would it be possible to bring over the bilinear scaler from ReGBA? It should look more "even" compared to the one from SNES9x4D (lifebars from Mega Man games seem to be an easy way to compare):





I can understand if there's not enough CPU power left over for that type of scaling in this case (until the IPU driver is done anyways).

I updated this but it cannot read my load states anymore.     Am i missing something?  Did it move to somewhere?

As the saved state format is very much tied to the core, later versions of Snes9x -- the core PocketSNES uses --, lose saved state backwards compatibility with every new version.

In the meanwhile, please hold on to your PocketSNES-1.39 build from August, load one saved state from 1.39 and let it save SRAM. 1.43 will then be able to load SRAM along with your game and you can save a new state with it.