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bsnes-hd beta

bsnes-hd beta emulates Nintendo SNES, Nintendo Super Game Boy, Nintendo Satellaview and Nintendo SuFami Turbo. It reads 20 files, none of them required: it starts games without them.

About this profile
Detail Value
Type libretro
Classification Enhanced fork
Source https://github.com/DerKoun/bsnes-hd
Upstream https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes
Version 10.6, stated in bsnes/emulator/emulator.hpp
Revision DerKoun/bsnes-hd@fc26b25ea236, bsnes-emu/bsnes@78474e5d39f5
Profiled 2026-03-23
Profile YAML, JSON
Cores bsnes_hd_beta, bsneshd, bsnes_hd
Systems Nintendo SNES, Nintendo Super Game Boy, Nintendo Satellaview, Nintendo SuFami Turbo
Install this emulator's files

The installer finds your setup and its BIOS folder, then downloads only the files this emulator reads there and checks each one.

Open the Start menu. Type PowerShell and open it. Paste the line. Press Enter.

PowerShell
&([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i.ps1))) --emulator bsnes_hd_beta
Technical notes

bsnes-hd beta is a fork of bsnes ~v114 by DerKoun with widescreen and true color rendering. Firmware handling identical to bsnes v115. repo Version="10.6", SerializerVersion="114.2" ref: bsnes/emulator/emulator.hpp:33-34,40

SGB boot ROMs embedded in binary (icd/boot-roms.cpp:1,12). SGB1.sfc/SGB2.sfc are SGB cartridge ROMs (not boot ROMs). HLE available for DSP1/1B/2/4, ST010, CX4 (default ON in libretro). DSP3, ST011, ST018 have no HLE. Coprocessor firmware not loaded from system_dir in libretro wrapper; HLE used by default, LLE requires firmware embedded in ROM. ref: sfc/cartridge/load.cpp:431,506,586 ref: sfc/coprocessor/icd/icd.cpp:87,90 ref: target-libretro/libretro_core_options.h:462-470

Files

Section titled “Files”

20 files: 0 required, 20 optional. 11 have an HLE fallback.

In this collection: 20 in repo and 0 missing.

Optional

Section titled “Optional”
20 rows
FileStatusHash

dsp1.program.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

dsp1.data.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

dsp1b.program.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

dsp1b.data.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

dsp2.program.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

dsp2.data.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

dsp3.program.rom

Source
in repo-

dsp3.data.rom

Source
in repo-

dsp4.program.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

dsp4.data.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

cx4.data.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

st010.program.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

st010.data.rom

Source
in repo HLE fallback-

st011.program.rom

  • System: Nintendo SNES
  • no HLE, required for Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shougi
Source
in repo-

st011.data.rom

  • System: Nintendo SNES
  • no HLE, required for Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shougi
Source
in repo-

st018.program.rom

  • System: Nintendo SNES
  • no HLE, required for Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shougi 2
Source
in repo-

st018.data.rom

  • System: Nintendo SNES
  • no HLE, required for Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shougi 2
Source
in repo-

SGB1.sfc

Hashes and source
in repoMD5 b15ddb15721c

SGB2.sfc

Hashes and source
in repoMD5 8ecd73eb4edf

BS-X.bin

Source
in repo-

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”
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Maintained by Abdess on GitHub. Report a problem.

Packs from release v2026.10.10, .

MIT for the tooling and metadata. BIOS and firmware files are third-party system software, preserved for personal backup, archival and interoperability.