Affiliate Disclosure
How Snes9x.net is funded, which links on this site are affiliate links, and why our download advice never changes because of them.
Snes9x.net is an unofficial, reader-supported resource site about the Snes9x emulator. We are not the Snes9x project, and we are not affiliated with Nintendo or with any controller, handheld or storage brand mentioned on this site. Snes9x itself is freeware for personal, non-commercial use — you never need to pay anyone to download or use it.
How this site earns money
Running this site costs money (hosting, testing hardware, time). Some outbound links on Snes9x.net are affiliate links. If you click one of those links and then buy something from the merchant, this site may earn a commission. The price you pay is exactly the same as if you had gone to the merchant directly — the commission comes out of the merchant’s margin, never out of your pocket.
Affiliate links on this site are easy to recognise: they pass through short redirect addresses that begin with https://snes9x.net/go/. Download links for the emulator itself are not affiliate links — see the section below.
The programmes we participate in
We participate in, or have applied to, the following programmes and networks:
- Amazon Associates — product links to Amazon (our store tag is
oliver062-20) for controllers, retro handhelds, microSD cards, Raspberry Pi kits and similar hardware. - Impact — an affiliate network through which we work, or have applied to work, with controller, game-bundle and other gaming merchants.
- Awin — an affiliate network through which we work, or have applied to work, with game-key and retro-handheld retailers.
- CJ — an affiliate network through which we work, or have applied to work, with storage and cloud-storage merchants (for example, for the save-sync setup described in our cloud save guide).
Individual guides that contain affiliate links say so in a short note on the page itself, with a link back to this disclosure.
Amazon disclosure
Snes9x.net is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
What affiliate links never change
Our download advice is not for sale. Every Snes9x download recommendation on this site points first to the official GitHub releases of the snes9xgit/snes9x project, because that is the only current official source — whether or not any affiliate relationship exists. No merchant can pay to change a recommendation, a ranking or a warning on this site, and we do not soften criticism of a product because we link to it. Where a product we recommend has no affiliate programme at all, we say so and link to a normal retailer anyway.
We also never make earnings claims, and we do not publish commission figures, because they are irrelevant to whether a controller, card or handheld is the right choice for your setup.
Questions
If anything on this page is unclear, or you spot a link on the site that you think should be labelled and is not, contact us at [email protected].