Since MESS is now at the point where it’s pretty easy to add support for SNES add-on hardware, I recently asked etabeta to add a skeleton for the SNES SA-1 add-on chip, which I then fleshed out.

It turned out to be relatively easy to get many of the games using it playing; many of the games use it just as a faster S-CPU and don’t need the graphics conversion hardware running. So, in the “not bad for a weekend” category, here’s some screens from games that didn’t run in MESS previously, including one that gets asked about a lot…

Because people continue to think I’ve completely quit the scene or something (read the post more carefully!), here’s a little MESS 0.149 WIP I submitted. Here we’re emulating an early board which added 3 SN76489 sound chips to the Apple II, the sort of thing that’s a 10 minute slam dunk inside the MAME/MESS framework and months of terror outside of it. Another Apple II emulation world first for MESS, if I’m not mistaken. Huge thanks to whoever recently contributed the software and manuals to the Apple II Documentation Project!