How to Play SNES Games on PC and Mac

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In this article we will discuss about how to Play SNES Games on PC and Mac. As companies stop making older game apps and new operating systems make many games unplayable, it gets harder to play all of your old favorites. Game conservation has never been more important, but most of the business has failed in this area.

You’ve seen it. You may have seen people playing old Nintendo, Sega, or even PlayStation games on their computers on an airplane or at a friend’s house. But when you look for those games in Steam, you don’t find anything. What kind of magic is this? Even though it’s not new, you shouldn’t feel bad that you don’t know about it.

This isn’t exactly common cultural knowledge, and it can be hard to understand for people who are just starting out. You can find several Super Nintendo versions on the Internet, and they all work pretty much the same.

How to Play SNES Games on PC

Getting the right emulator

The first step, which may be the most important, is to find an emulator that works with the game. To do this, don’t forget to:

• Choose the emulator according to the operating system of your computer i.e. Mac OS or Windows. An emulator meant for Mac will not be able to run on Windows operating system.
• Designate a specific destination for the SNES emulator, and apart from this, have another folder for ROM files of the game. With this, you can effectively organize both emulators and ROMs.

Download the ROMs

Once you’re done with the emulator, the next step is to get free and safe ROMs from a secure site. No matter what website you choose to download SNES games from, make sure it has a good reputation for having the best ROMs and no malware.

Playing the Game on PC

The work isn’t done yet; you still have to set up the emulator and ROM on your PC. So as to:

• Keep ROMs and emulators in a separate folder and open the emulator.
• Click on the emulator, and from the drop-down menu select ‘Load Game’. CTRL+O can be used as a shortcut for this step
• A pop-up of ROM files appears at this point, and you can select and run the game that you want to play (based on the number of ROMs you have downloaded on your PC).
• You don’t have to choose the game now and then, as the emulator automatically picks and cues the ROM, based on the game that you had selected earlier.

How to Play SNES Games on Mac

Launch a ROM from Finder

If you try to open a ROM file by double-clicking on it, nothing might happen. Some versions will automatically add the right file extensions, but others won’t. OpenEmu will automatically pick up all the popular ROM file extensions, so you can just double-click on ROMs in Finder to start the games that go with them.

Don’t worry if the connection doesn’t work right with your emulator. ROM files can be opened with the right emulator by using the “Open With…” button. ROMs that come as ZIP files will need to be unzipped before this way can be used.

Use OpenEmu’s Library

With OpenEmu, you can build a library of ROMs on your hard drive that you take care of on your own. Just pick the ROM files in Finder and drag them into the OpenEmu window.

They will be added to your game library and linked to the right core immediately. They will also be copied to a different library on the disk, which OpenEmu will take care of. If you don’t like this, you can turn it off in OpenEmu’s settings.

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