Super Nintendo Emulators for Mac OS

Highly accurate Super Nintendo emulator. Once after the 0.70 version, byuu (the emulator's author), began to gradually turn bsnes into higan, starting by dropping half of the functionality and support for standard ROMs and archives. In fact, bsnes 0.71 can be considered the first version of higan. Later bsnes was again separated into a separate project from higan. If you have problems with the emulator speed, try changing the settings in Drivers -> Audio and Drivers -> Video.

• High emulation accuracy
• Support for standard ROM formats (including those packed in zip and 7z)
• Many settings
• A lot of video filters
• Game Movie recording
• And more

Mesen is a multi-system emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS. It supports NES, SNES, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, PC Engine and SMS/Game Gear games. Features of the emulator include:

• High accuracy;
• High compatibility (support 220 mappers for NES);
• Savestates, audio and video recording, etc;
• Video filters;
• Stereo effects;

Mac OS X port of Snes9x.

One of the three best Super Nintendo emulators. Lots of options, excellent compatibility.

ares is an open-source multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has a native graphical interface on each system. It has a native GUI on each system. It is a descendant of higan, byuu and bsnes and is focused on emulation accuracy. It emulates the following systems:

• Arcade
• Atari 2600 (Experimental)
• WonderSwan (Color)
• Pocket Challenge V2
• ColecoVision
• MSX / MSX2 (Experimental)
• PC-Engine / TurboGrafx / SuperGrafx
• PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx CD (Experimental)
• My Vision
• NES / Famicom
• Famicom Disk System
• Game Boy (Color)
• SNES / Super Famicom
• Satellaview
• Nintendo 64 / 64DD
• SuFami Turbo
• Game Boy Advance
• Game Gear / Master System / Mark III / SG-1000
• Mega Drive / Genesis / Sega CD / Mega CD / 32X
• ZX Spectrum (Experimental)
• Neo Geo (AES/MVS) (Experimental)
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
• PlayStation (Experimental)

Note: cue+mp3 format is not supported for Sega CD, You can convert to cue+wav using the CueMp3ToWave.

BizHawk is an open-source multi-system emulator. It uses emulator cores from the Libretro project (RetroArch). It supports emulation of NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, PlayStation, and many other systems (around 30 systems). Developed with support from the TASVideos community, BizHawk is designed for creating Tool-Assisted Speedruns (TAS) — speedrunning game completions — as well as for casual gaming.

Supported platforms

• Arcade machines
• Apple II
• Atari 2600
• Atari 7800
• Atari Lynx
• ColecoVision
• Commodore 64
• Commodore Amiga
• Fairchild Channel F
• Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Mattel Intellivision
• NEC PC Engine (AKA TurboGrafx-16), including SuperGrafx and PCE CD
• Neo Geo Pocket
• Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo DS/DSi
• Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, Famicom Disk System
• Odyssey 2
• Sega Genesis, Sega-CD, 32x
• Sega Master System, Game Gear, and SG-1000
• Sega Saturn
• Sony PlayStation
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Famicom
• PCFX
• TI-83 graphing calculator
• Uzebox
• Vectrex
• Virtual Boy
• Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color
• ZX Spectrum

Multi-platform emulator (formerly bsnes) for Mac OS X (64-bit), focused on emulation accuracy, no hacks for individual games, etc. Supports emulation of:

• NES
• Super Nintendo
• Game Boy (Color)
• Game Boy Advance

Silhouette is supposedly an emulator from Nintendo itself. It runs a huge number of games perfectly, but is a bit slower than Snes9x.