[shekelmyrrh]

Having a hard time finding out exactly what system .sfc is supposed to translate to. Apparently everybody knows, so there's nowhere you can find out.  But it shouldn't matter, because I've tried them with Nestopia, FCEUX, Bsnes AND SNES9x (I THINK they're Super Famicom and/or SNES roms. I know they're old.) I know the problem's not the .sfc files themselves, because I've tried a bunch of different ones (and also tried without unzipping them). I know it's not the emulators (unless I'm still somehow not using the right one). The .sfc files will not show up in the open/browse option, and if I try to open them with a specific emulator, it says 'error loading rom' or some variation.  WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Edit: Oh, and I'm using windows 7 64 bit, if that makes a difference.

[Disch]

SFC is indeed Super Nintendo (or rather "Super Famicom, which was the japanese version of the SNES)

They should run fine in any and all SNES emulators.  If they don't show up in the open/browse window, try changing the extension to smc.  Though, really, 'sfc' is relatively common and your emu should recognize it by extension.

[SunGodPortal]

EDIT: nevermind. misread.

[KingMike]

BSNES/Higan should DEFINITELY read them (although it might have an "Import Game" option or something you have to go through first) as byuu has been pushing for a single format (SFC, no header, additionally in his "Game Folder" format, which is what the Import option is for).
But yes, SNES9x should read SFC files as well just fine.
Don't know why you'd try an SNES game in an NES emulator, though (Nestopia and FCEUX).

[MathUser2929]

There are emulators that do NES and SNES, but I don't know what they are. I always use system specific emulators.

[shekelmyrrh]

Well, like I said, couldn't find out for certain what system they were for. I did finally get a couple of them to work in SNES9X (after getting DirectX updated, a Herculean task in itself thanks to Windows Update and the Microsoft website being utterly broken) but no, they don't work or even show up for BSNES.

[Jorpho]

Surely you have some idea of what you downloaded?  You weren't just looking at randomly-named .sfc files, were you?

[shekelmyrrh]

The ones I finally got to work were both Fire Emblem games, Monshou no Nazo and Seisen no Keifu.

[Jorpho]

Well, the more interesting question would be what you didn't get to work.

[shekelmyrrh]

There's quite a few, but like I said, it's not the files. I must just have some configuration that's screwy. Tried all the files with the same emulators (BSNES, SNES9X) on a different computer and they were all fine.

[hanhnn]

.sfc is SNES rom, you can use Snes9x, zsnes to run it.
Snes9x requires some DirectX install to run on windows 7, it might be your problem.
Try Zsnes.

[Axiphel]

'Try zsnes'  This isn't 2007.

[Chronosplit]

.sfc is SNES rom, you can use Snes9x, zsnes to run it.
Snes9x requires some DirectX install to run on windows 7, it might be your problem.
Try Zsnes.

If they don't have DirectX on Windows, there's a whole other lot of questions to be asked at this point other than "why."  Like what else isn't installed?

'Try zsnes'  This isn't 2007.

No way, this is the modern age.  Get Nesticle!

But seriously uh... I guess at this point ZSNES is the odd one out?  This might be something to ask the SNES9x forum if you do have DirectX installed (that's probably a 90% probability of yes) and it's not corrupted, I can't for the life of me see any problem that could cause that... I mean shoot, SNES9x could work on toasters with the right OS attached.  I'd venture to say there's something else going on wrong with your machine though.

[hanhnn]

Zsnes is so obsolete now, but it might be the only emulator works in this situation.

[Chronosplit]

I was able to run the latest stable SNES9x on an XP machine with a Pentium IV just fine, so not really sure if that's the right reasoning for it.  But if ZSNES works and the others don't, it's a way of knowing there's something really wrong here.