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Legendary SNES Emulator Liberated Using NSA Tool

Swedish programmer bags long-rumoured SNESticle.

The fabled SNES emulator known as SNESticle, which for much of the past two decades was considered to be nothing more than a rumour, has finally been unearthed and excavated by a Swedish programmer using, of all things, a National Security Agency-designed open source tool.

SNESticle, the follow-up to Icer Addis’ legendary NESticle emulator – a follow-up the ex-EA employee long denied even existed – was found buried in code for the GameCube version of 2005’s Fight Night Round 2, where it was being used to enable gamers to unlock a playable version of Super Punch-Out!!

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