Snes9x emulator for MX-15

[maxmoon]

1. You are using MX19, based on your earlier post, so please start a thread in the correct subforum for MX19 package requests, instead of reviving an old MX15 thread in the non-package requests subforum.

I just wanted to ask those people who had this issue with MX15 already, because they should have solved this issue long ago. But it looks like it wasn't solved yet.

Is it this?

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apt policy libretro-snes9x
libretro-snes9x:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.53+git20160522-1
  Version table:
     1.53+git20160522-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/non-free amd64 Packages

This lib is used by RetroArch.

RetroArch is some kind of distribution of a lot of emulators, having one platform for it.

With the following command you can see which emulators are currently supported (in MX):

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apt search libretro

If you only need Snes, you need liretro-snes9x (the package Jerry mentioned above) and RetroArch. Install it with the following command:

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sudo apt install retroarch libretro-snes9x

I tested it and it runs good. But RetroArch supports a lot of emulators and not everyone can be found in the package manager.

The docs of RetroArch say, if you don't install RetroArch with your package manager (e.g. compile by yourself or use flatpak), a menu will be shown within RetroArch, which let's you download/update all available emulators/cores.

Maybe a long way, but that's a good way to get Snes9x (lib) and run Snes games on MX.

Porting every package of a core/emulator lib to MX would be a huge task, because there are like hundreds of them.

----> EDIT:

The updater can be unlocked with the right entry in the config file:

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menu_show_core_updater = "true"

So no need of all the cores, which must have been installed with apt-get install. Now, all the cores can be installed and updated by RetroArch.