Yesterday’s update for the SNES app brought a couple of very interesting features for players of this beloved era of retro games.
A CRT mode has been added to the app, which allows players to apply a video filter over their games that resembles the display of a CRT television – the big, boxy, square-shaped TVs that were common in households before our screens became wider, thinner, and capable of high-definition video. CRT filters can make for a more authentic experience, as many games in the ‘90s were made with this display in mind.
The other big addition is button mapping (via Resetera), which allows you to assign inputs to different buttons – for example, if you don’t like how jumping with the A button feels, you can make B the jump button.
This update arrived alongside the release of Mario Paint on the SNES app, a system classic that allows Nintendo Switch 2 players to use the Joy-Con 2’s Mouse Mode (replicating the original Super NES Mouse) to create all manner of artistic and musical creations.
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Written by Reece Heather
A lifelong Nintendo fan and a longtime editor at Zelda Universe, Reece will forever be grateful that he somehow dodged the Naughty List of Christmas 1998, when Santa delivered the life-changing gift of a Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, and Mario Kart 64. When he's not playing games, Reece is usually reading Punisher comics, delving helplessly into the weirdest depths of anime and manga, or spending time with his cocker spaniel Gracie -- the goodest girl ever!
