Bug#598968: RFP: bsnes -- The most accurate SNES/SuperFamicom emulator

[Emil Langrock <emil.langrock@gmx.de>]

On Friday 06 May 2011 18:45:44 Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 05/06/2011 12:23 PM, Emil Langrock wrote:
> > Isn't it a bit useless to package bsnes? mednafen (in Debian) has bsnes
> > already integrated [1] (afaik also with netplay support). Maybe it would
> > be
> 
> I don't think it has it integrated:
> 
> $ mednafen --help | grep -i snes
> 
> has no output. It doesn't recognize SNES ROM files.
> 
> $ apt-cache policy mednafen
> mednafen:
>    Installed: 0.8.D.3-1
>    Candidate: 0.8.D.3-1
>    Version table:
>   *** 0.8.D.3-1 0
>          500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
>           -1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
>          500 http://ftp.debian.nl/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
>           -1 http://ftp.debian.nl/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


It is

$ mednafen --help | grep -i snes
 Internal emulation modules: nes snes gb gba pce pce_fast lynx md pcfx ngp vb 
wswan sms gg cdplay

see the output. And it recognized snes rom files - tried it with 1997\ New\ 
Year\ FD\ \(PD\).smc

$ apt-cache policy mednafen
mednafen:
  Installed: 0.9.17.1-1
  Candidate: 0.9.17.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.17.1-1 0
          1 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.8.D.3-1 0
        500 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
        500 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages