Snes Online!

Remember the good old days of video games? Where you and a friend from school or in the neighborhood would huddle around a 27in CRT? Well now those days are back!

You and a friend or even a complete stranger can share those experiences again through Zbattle.net I know I've talked about emulation before, but I've just rediscovered a completely amazing aspect of it.

Zbattle isn't new, in fact, it's been out nearly as long as Zsnes. With this program you can start a game 'room', similar to a chat, and either tell a friend about it or wait for someone to connect to it. Don't have the game for someone else's room? Zbattle handles that by sending it to them.(These games or roms [also 'romz"] are only permitted if you own the physical cartridge, and sometimes not even then, it's a rather gray area because the carts are no longer for sale in new condition)

There are a few things you need in order for Zbattle to operate.

1. And older version of Zsnes. (1.50)
2. Zbattle.net
3. Port 7845 forwarded (Though you can edit the port in the .ini).
Well, 3 is a little tricky depending on your router make. (If you use a direct connection i.e. directly to a cable modem you can skip 3).

Head to portforward.com to get directions on how to open that port.

And that's that, enjoy! Sorry mac fans, only Windows and Linux at this time, though you can find Zsnes for regular and Intel macs. Hopefully someone will port is soon.

If you a Mario Cart fan kick my buddy a message (luvadrianalima) and ask him for a challenge.

-Have a great weekend!