Hello Lord ESNES

Hello

I am interviewing you about your SNES emulator for DOS, ESNES. This interview will be for WILD_'s new e-zine.

Hmmm, hehehe...

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Alright. First I would like to congratulate you on your excellent progress. ESNES is really proving itself as THE snes emulator to get.

Thanks. But there is some very good emulators out.

Explain how things started with ESNES, what inspired you to do it, how you learned, etc.

SNES97 has a lot of future, it is THE SNES emulator to get, very soon

Yes it does.

Hehe, please give a question, I can't do a redaction in english ;-)

Ok. What inspired you to make ESNES?

It was september, I started to download some snes emulators, but it weren't working. When I was a boy, I loved the snes, and I wanted play the games of the snes in a PC.

So you decided to make your own?

Yes, I decided, but when I started I said myself: it can't work, it is very difficult, even I left ESNES after of the version 0.01b, but I went back ;-)

That's cool. So was it hard to learn C WHILE making ESNES??

A bit, but I have enjoyed doing ESNES, yet I need learn better C, but at least now I can understand the pointers ;-)

Rumors about ESNES 1.0 have been spreading. When do you plan to release this?

I never know when I go to release the next version, it could be out tomorrow or the next week or the next year, I don't know ;-)

What do you plan to have in ESNES by say next year?

Hmmm, ESNES is my university project, I want present it in June, after God 'll say.

So will ESNES continue to be free?? VSMC97 is great but the cost detracts from the value

I was thinking about it, if someday ESNES runs the 95% of the games ( sound included ), it could be shareware (but real shareware same as pkunzip), I'll give the complete version, and if someone want pay me, ok, and if someone wanted to pay me, ok

So if it does become shareware... What would make the shareware different?? Atimer??

No, I 'll give the complete version. Then if someone think that he need pay for use ESNES, then ok.

Oh. So more of a donation?

Yes

OK. So will ESNES ever contain a Debugger?

I don't know, yet

Ok. Everyone would really like a debugger, makes it much easier to translate games.

But, a good debugger is a hard work

Yes it is. So what have you learned about emulation since the project??

I don't know, some about the SNES.

Ah.. Well it's great that someone realizes that the emulation scene is not one to have a price put on it

hmmmm

Well. Thank you for your time.

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