Basically want to know if there’s any objectively “best” snes core for Lakka between snes9x, snes9x 2010, and the banes-mercury balanced? Or just the basic differences between them. Running on an asus chromebox 64 bit ver.
Oh, and if I have save states saved using one is there a way to load using a different core?
Thanks!
savestates aren’t compatible across cores and may not be compatible across even the same core after an update, depending on what’s been changed.
snes9x is the most broadly appropriate core. bsnes-balanced offers a few accuracy improvements and a few (terrible) games work on it that don’t work on snes9x. The -mercury cores are slightly faster than the regular bsnes mainline cores and they offer the ability to use HLE special chip emulation instead of LLE, which can be very important in maintaining full speed on some hardware (for example, the cx4 LLE in Megaman X2/3 is particularly demanding for very little apparent gain). Snes9x 2010 has some speedhacks that make it a little faster than mainline snes9x but that’s probably not going to be necessary for your machine.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. Considering I have a bunch of save states already using snes9x I’ll just stick with it. If I run into any performance issues I might try the bsnes mercury balanced core
To be clear: snes9x is much faster than any of the bsnes flavors. The mercury flavors of bsnes are faster than the mainline bsnes cores but are still substantially slower than snes9x.