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Message: [QUOTE="DietPepsi, post: 92169, member: 73697"] I wanna air 2 of my grievances surrounding SNES9x, and before we start because I will compare the 3, I know. SNES9x plays Super Nintendo games, while PCSX2 and Dolphin emulate PS2 and GameCube/Wii games, respectively. Different consoles, different needs[B].[/B] But here’s the thing: [B]good emulators evolve.[/B] And SNES9x? It feels like it stopped trying sometime in the early 2000s. (Like that transition?) As a UX designer by trade, naturally I want to start with the complete lack of an[B] actual UI[/B]. Open Dolphin or PCSX2, and you’re met with a well-organized interface that actually makes sense. You can easily browse your game library, tweak settings, and launch titles without digging through a maze of dropdown menus. SNES9x? Nope. Diddly dick. You open it, and it just [I]sits there... menacingly[/I] like an empty Windows XP program, staring at you blankly. You have to manually load ROMs like it’s still 2005, and god forbid you want to tweak anything [B]before[/B] launching a game, because the settings menu is just a chaotic mess. [ATTACH type="full" width="445px" size="1920x1072"]31745[/ATTACH] Then there’s save state management. Dolphin and PCSX2 give you easy-to-use save state menus, allowing you to hit escape on your keyboard and save the game state as it is, in 2 clicks or less. SNES9x? You can do that too... but there's a few hoops to jump through. It's organized into 2 separate dropdown menus containing multiple unnamed save banks with multiple unnamed slots. IT'S CONFUSING! Did I save my progress at State 3, or was that the one where I accidentally soft-locked myself? Guess I’ll just have to roll the dice! At the end of the day, I know I'm being pedantic and I really enjoy getting to play SNES games again. This whole thing isn't to say that SNES9x [I]doesn’t work, [/I]it plays SNES games just fine. Great even! But compared to how polished and user-friendly modern emulators have become, it just feels... stagnant. In my humble onion. Best, Diet Pepsi [/QUOTE]

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