Interview with the creator of ZSNES

[ThunderBoy]

 

[sandogma sandogma]

Awesome video. The legendary Zophar interviewing the legendary ZS Knight. Thanks for sharing this!

 

[Heinzu]

I thought that the development of ZSNES was discontinued in 2007

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Nice! I owe this guy my love for the system at a time when my only other option was visiting my cousin's house to play on his SNES (something I only ever did a couple of times before he moved away).

 

[Moreno909]

Legendary comfy emulator. I used it for a while, despite being technically surpassed, but is still an great emu

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

zsKnight & _Demo_ are the legendary developers of the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Emulation which is the ZSnes which was one of the pioneering SFC/SNES emulators of the time.

 

[Bakuma1997]

This is my first Emulator EVER, this was a ride along the great TIL that it still lives, thanks ZSNES

 

[qw90700]

"We've finally learned what he looks like so we should send Nintendo Ninjas™©℗® after him and sue him!!!" -- Nintendo lolol

 

[SoThankful]

Looks interesting. Will watch.

 

[Alleway]

Oh man, this was my intro to the emulation world. (long rambling incoming)
I remember wanting to play Final Fantasy II & III (4 and 6, I knew later), but we rarely got any RPGs where I lived. One day a classmate tells me about a way to play SNES games on the computer, and I was hooked.
So we go to his house, he opens this program called ZSNES... cue the falling snow background. He starts looking among a batch of ROMs he already had... but no FF2 nor 3. There was, however, this FF I'd never heard about before... so we fire up FF Mystic Quest...
... about 10 minutes later, he looks at me with such disappointment.
Him: 'Is this what you were talking about?'
Me: 'No! I mean, the 7th one is looking to be awesome!' (The hype about a FF7 was starting)
I can still remember his horrified face, almost like it said 'You telling me there's 6 of this crap already?!'
Goddamit, Mystic Quest.
The music was awesome though. Even he couldn't contest that. And I eventually got to the other games, and so, so many more.
Thank you guys. ZSKnight, _Demo_, Nach and everyone else.

 

[Bacon Eater64x]

Just wanna say thank you to the guy for giving me and many others the ability to play SNES games. Many of us come from less developed countries or were born well after the retail availability of the SNES so we had to find other ways to play those classics. A Link to the Past, Super Castlevania 4, Mega Man X and so on.

Without him i wouldn't have gotten an SNES Classic (and modded it lol)

 

[SeventhSon]

Nice! Can the Bloodlust Software guys be tracked down and interviewed, too?

 

[waterxwraith]

ZSNES was a considerable part of my childhood. I find myself missing it often even with better SNES emulators, maybe I'll redownload and play around with it soon.

 

[KenShjIN]

Nice ! Zsnes has always a special place in my heart

 

[thumbsdown]

bookmarked

 

[Shakan1997]

i got zsnes from a pirated CD full of nintendo emulators and roms i found in a mall in north africa. was one of my earliest interactions with emulation. thanks, north african pirates.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Gaming is changed forever because of ZSNES!
And I’m eternally grateful for it.

 

[Raidou Kuzunoha]

This man right here made my childhood. Absolute legend, and I hope he (and every other contributor/dev) will be remembered for decades to come.

This image alone is a core childhood memory for me.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

This man’s project is the WHOLE REASON why SNES has a worldwide legacy to be proud of. People have already said it: many come from areas where they missed out on the actual system for various economic factors. It’s something to be proud of that your software allowed people to fall in love with games that they otherwise would have never played.