25th July 2013, 9:02 PM
After the discussion on Nintendo's incomplete emulators, I wanted to add one thing. Earthbound is in no way "special" when it comes to hardware. It is a standard SNES game on a standard SNES with no addon support at all, nor did it need any of that. As a result, Nintendo's emulator did a fine job with the game with nothing really overlooked. The only issues are occasional graphical glitches, as expected from an emulator that needs to run on the Wii U's processor. There's simply no way something as accurate as BSNES would be capable of running very well at all on such hardware.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)