Snezziboy was inspired by the development of the SNES Emulator developed for the Gameboy Advance system, commonly known as SNES Advance. Much credit must be given to the authors of the SNES Advance emulator, FluBBa and Loopy, without their daring effort in making the first emulator for the SNES on the
gameboy in the first place, it is unlikely that Snezziboy would have ever existed.

Snezziboy was also born out of a challenge that I wanted to take on to develop on an handheld, or an embedded system. The challenges were basic but very huge for an emulator:
- Small memory footprint
- Slow speed

The general rule of thumb is that for any emulator to work with decent, the machine that emulates the other should run about say, 10-20 times faster. THe SNES was a 2.58MHz machine, while the Gameboy Advance was a 16.78 MHz machine; only about 8 times faster in clock speed. Fortunately, the graphical capabilities, as FluBBa and Loopy had discovered, of the Gameboy Advance were very similar to the SNES, therefore allowing an emulator to exploity the Gameboy Advance hardware to accelerate the graphics processing.

The emulator is far from complete as of 12 May 2006, but it is already running some games at fairly decent speed, even though it is running them at full. Gradius III and Castlevania X seems to run very well.

This emulator will be made open source, and by doing so, I hope to event competent developers to further enhance the project, and if possible help in identifying and fixing bugs.