What the Snes9x 2010 core is

Snes9x 2010 is a port of Snes9x 1.52+ to Libretro and was previously called SNES9x Next. The official documentation describes it as rewritten in C with several optimizations and speedhacks.

The documentation states that this core provides more favorable performance thresholds at the cost of accuracy. It advises against using this core unless you have underpowered hardware and the mainline Snes9x core and the bsnes/higan/bsnes-mercury cores are not fast enough.

Documented feature support

  • The official feature table marks the following as supported: Restart, Screenshots, Saves, States, Rewind, Netplay, Core Options, Memory Monitoring (achievements), RetroArch Cheats, Controls, Remapping, Softpatching, and Crop Overscan. It marks these as unsupported: Native Cheats, Rumble, Sensors, Camera, Location, Subsystem, Disk Control, Username, Language, and LEDs. Multi-Mouse is listed with a dash rather than a check or cross.

Core options in the official documentation

The SuperFX Overclock option is listed with the values Disabled(10MHz), 40MHz, 60MHz, 80MHz, 100MHz, Underclock(5MHz), and Underclock(8MHz).

Reference table · Scroll horizontally to see all columns.

FeatureDocumented status
RestartSupported
ScreenshotsSupported
SavesSupported
StatesSupported
RewindSupported
NetplaySupported
Core OptionsSupported
Memory Monitoring (achievements)Supported
RetroArch CheatsSupported
ControlsSupported
RemappingSupported
SoftpatchingSupported
Crop OverscanSupported
Native CheatsNot supported
RumbleNot supported
SensorsNot supported
CameraNot supported
LocationNot supported
SubsystemNot supported
Disk ControlNot supported
UsernameNot supported
LanguageNot supported
LEDsNot supported
Multi-MouseDash (neither check nor cross)

Reference table · Scroll horizontally to see all columns.

OptionDocumented values
SuperFX OverclockDisabled(10MHz), 40MHz, 60MHz, 80MHz, 100MHz, Underclock(5MHz), Underclock(8MHz)
Evidence and publication details

Sources & references

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Published .

RetroArch: snes9x 2010 — official gaming software documentation https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libretro/docs/master/docs/library/snes9x_2010.mdRetrieved Oct 30, 2026

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