Snes9xTYL

Snes9xTYL is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator originally developed by YoyoFR for the PSP system. Snes9xTYL is based off the SNES module, and the original Snes9x version 1.39 emulator.

Features

Snes9xTYL allows you to fully load and play SNES roms off of your memory stick in either it's original format, or a rom with .zip compression. The latest version of Snes9xTYL developed by YoyoFR allows a number of features.

Render Modes

Snes9xTYL can use 5 rendering modes. Settings can vary from user to user depending on personal preference, and whichever mode yields optimal performance. These modes are:

• Mode0: Optimized Snes9x - An optimized version of Snes9x.
• Mode1: Origianl Snes9x - The original version of Snes9x without any optimizations.
• Mode2: Hardware accelerated (using PSP's GU) - A hardware accelerated version that usually caused the PSP to run overclocked.
• Mode3: Adaptive rendering Mode 2 + Mode 1 - A combination of Modes 1, and 2.
• Mode4: Adaptive rendering Mode 2 + Mode 0 - A combination of Modes 2 0 and 2.

.ZIP Support

Snes9xTYL allows for full support for compressed roms within .zip files. However, any other compression format is not compatible.

Savestates

As with much other popular emulators, Snes9xTYL allows savestates (snapshots at specific points in the game). Savestates can be made at any time during the game via the emulator's menu. Savestates can be exported/imported among other users as long as they are properly converted and formatted for use with other emulators or the real system itself.

2 Player Adhoc

For games that support multiplayer, users of the same ROM and version of Snes9xTYL can be able to connect over Adhoc and be able to play multiplayer games over WiFi.

Overclocking and Speed Improvements

Within the emulator, the PSP can be overclocked to either 222Mhz (Sony's default), 266Mhz, or 333mhz. Due to this, any settings made in recovery (for firmwares that have it), will have no effect. Even while in the emulator. Also, there are multiple hacks a user can turn on to speed up the emulation's speeds. However, some of these hacks won't fully work for everyone.

Cheating

Snes9xTYL has a feature where a user can enter cheat codes via the emulator menu to use within the game.

Unofficial Versions / Improvements

Developers ChillyWilly, Ahman, and CaptShoe have all developed modified versions of Snes9xTYL. The main features that were added in these versions were that the emulator was now compatible with Slims, and ran on the 3.xx kernel. Also, the MediaEngine library that once only worked on 1.00 and 1.50 firmwares, can now be used on 3.xx firmwares as well as the Slim. Most major features from the 0.4.2 release of Snes9xTYL still remains in these releases. (Since they were all modified from the 0.4.2 release) ChillyWilly's and CaptShoe's version is actually an update version of Ahman's non-ME release.

Incompatibilities

Some minor incompatibilities has been reported and stated with ChillyWilly's and CaptShoe's release of the emulator. So far, these include:

• The Custom Firmware Extender plugin will have to be disabled or the emulator will fail to exit back to the XMB.
• The old config file cannot be used with this release.
• The install of this version of the emulator cannot simply be done by a copy and paste of the folders from the download to the old folder overwriting old files.
• Sound problems may occur from some of the speed hacks that might be in use.

Compatibility

Most games have been reported to work. However, some games such as Mario Kart, and Kirby Superstar won't work properly.

Status Levels:

Status Level:	Description:
Untested	Has not yet been tested.
Works	Full speed, no noticeable problems.
Mostly Works	Playable, but with noticeable glitches, or not playable because of speed, with no glitches.
Barely Works	Glitches or speed make game unplayable, but it will boot.
Doesn't Work	Will not boot, or crashes on boot.

Game:	Status:	Comments:
Batman Returns	Works
Big Sky Trooper	Barely Works	Save names are strange, Controls are awkward
Donkey Kong Country	Barely Works	Extreme slowdown in many places.
Donkey Kong Country 2	Mostly Works	Noticeable slowdown in water levels. Fine otherwise.
Donkey Kong Country 3	Mostly Works	Very large slowdown on the main world map, and in certain levels (e.g. Murky Mill). Some transparency effects are messed up.
Earthbound	Works
Final Fantasy 2	Works
Final Fantasy 3	Works
Final Fight 1-3	Works
Illusions of Time	Works
King of Dragons	Works
Kirby's Dream House	Works
Kirby Superstar	Barely Works	Extremly Slow to Play. To the point of unplayable.
Knights of the Round	Works
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	Works
Lufia II - Rise of the Sinistrals	Mostly Works	Battle transitions are slow, and menus may look weird if using hardware accelerated modes. Fine otherwise.
Mario Kart	Barely Works	Large FrameSkips that makes games choppy.
Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gem	Works
Megaman X	Barely Works	Slow gameplay.
Megaman X2	Barely Works	Slow gameplay. Will freeze on Morph Moth's stage.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers	Works
Mortal Kombat	Works
Mortal Kombat II	Works
Mortal Kombat 3	Works
Pac-Attack	Mostly works	Graphical freakout on some occasions, but going to the emulator's menu fixes them. Rare spontaneous freezes.
Project Nested	Doesn't Work	Stuck in a loop of bad call Error screen appears, then crashes immediately game works on my PC?
Rock and Roll Racing	Works
Secret of Evermore	Works
Secret of Mana	Barely Works	Slow gameplay
Super Back to the Future Part II	Works
Super Mario World	Works
Super Metroid	Works
Super Street Fighter 2 : The New Challangers	Works
Street Fighter 2 the World Warriors/Turbo	Works
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time	Works
Tetris 2	Works
Umahara Kawase	Works
X-Men: Mutant Apocolypse	Works

Source: http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=51917

Downloads

Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 Standard by YoyoFR
Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 ME for Phats (By YoyoFR)
Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 Slim port by Ahman
Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 ME by ChillyWilly and CaptShoe

See Also

YoYoFR's Website