I understand the appeal of speed-focused emulators. They serve a specific niche: running on cell phones and handheld gaming systems, and conserving battery power when playing on the go.
This article is not meant to say that inaccurate emulators are without merit. Instead, it is to say that accurate emulators do in fact have merit of their own. The system resources necessary for extremely accurate SNES emulation become cheaper and cheaper every day. Currently, a refurbished system capable of running bsnes at full-speed will set you back $99USD.
Perhaps you don't play any of the above games, and none of these issues affect you. That is fair enough. But why take the chance? You never know when an emulation bug is going to destroy your gameplay experience. So if you have the system resources, why not put them to good use, and demand accurate emulation? I'm not even saying it should be bsnes. Encourage other emulators to also care about accuracy, as I have been. Focusing on accuracy will not harm the people reliant on faster emulators, they are free to use the older versions of these emulators for as long as their old hardware remains functional. Catering to the unfortunate poor and the technological luddites should not hinder the progress of our entire community, is all I'm saying. The real SNES will not be around forever, and if we do not preserve it properly now, nobody ever will.
And please, the next time you hear someone espousing that the most popular SNES emulators are just as accurate as bsnes, ask them what drugs they are on for me, and link them here. Thanks for reading this.