Open Source · macOS · Free · EN / FR / ES

SNES Studi

The professional IDE for Super Nintendo game development. Visual editors, AI-powered assistance, and a complete build system.

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SNES Studio — Sprite editor and drawing window

Everything you need

From hardware to code

A complete toolkit that covers every aspect of SNES development, organized into four intuitive levels.

🎨

Palette Editor

Full BGR555 color picker with 16 palettes. Includes presets from classic SNES games like Zelda, Metroid, and Chrono Trigger.

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Tile Editor

Draw 8x8 tiles pixel-by-pixel with 2bpp, 4bpp, and 8bpp bit depth support. Rotate, flip, and transform with ease.

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Sprite Animator

Create and animate sprites with a full timeline editor. Import sprite sheets and auto-detect frames.

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World & Level Editor

Design worlds with zones, screens, transitions, and parallax layers. Support for overworld, sidescroll, and room-based layouts.

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Hardware Awareness

Real-time VRAM budget tracking, cartridge configuration, and memory map visualization. Know your constraints.

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AI Assistant

Integrated Claude AI that understands your project. It can modify palettes, generate tiles, write assembly code, and more.

Workflow

The Pyramid

Four levels that guide you from hardware constraints to game logic. Each level builds on the previous one.

1Contraintes

Hardware

Understand and configure the SNES hardware. Set cartridge mapping, inspect registers, track VRAM budgets, and visualize the memory map.

Cartridge Config
ROM mapping & chips
Registers
Hardware register editor
VRAM Budget
Real-time tracking
Memory Map
Visual layout
Layer Viewer
Graphics layers
ROM Analyzer
Parse existing ROMs
2Ressources

Atelier

Create all your game assets. Draw palettes, tiles, sprites, and tilemaps with dedicated visual editors and a pixel-perfect workflow.

Palette Editor
BGR555 color picker
Tile Editor
8x8 pixel drawing
Tilemap Editor
Compose levels
Sprite Editor
Animation & frames
Sheet Importer
Import sprite sheets
Controller Map
Button mapping
3Orchestration

Orchestre

Design your game world. Place screens, configure transitions, set up parallax scrolling, and define zones with interactive entities.

World Editor
Build world maps
Screen Editor
Design game screens
Zone Manager
Overworld & rooms
Transitions
Fade, scroll, iris...
Parallax
Multi-layer scrolling
Entities
Interactive objects
4Code

Logique

Write your game logic in 65816 assembly with a syntax-highlighted editor, integrated console, and one-click build system using cc65.

Code Editor
Syntax highlighting
Console
Build output & errors
Build System
cc65 toolchain
Build & Run
One-click compile
Hot Reload
Quick iteration
Linker Config
Auto-generated

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AI-Powered

Your SNES
copilot

An integrated AI assistant that understands SNES hardware, your project, and can directly modify your assets. Ask it to generate palettes, draw sprites, write assembly routines, or explain registers.

Direct asset modification
AI can create and edit palettes, tiles, and sprites in your project.
Assembly generation
Generate 65816 assembly routines with hardware-aware context.
Multi-turn tool use
Chain multiple operations in a single conversation for complex tasks.
Project-aware context
Understands your cartridge config, assets, and current editor state.
Aide — Claude

Create a forest palette with earthy greens and warm browns

I'll create a forest palette with deep greens, mossy tones, and warm bark browns. Here's what I've set up:

✓ Palette #2 updated — 16 colors

Now draw a simple tree sprite using this palette

Ask about your SNES project...

Start building
your SNES game

Free, open source, and built for macOS. Download SNES Studio and start creating today.

SNES Studio
macOS 14.0+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
Download Latest Release
v0.1.2·Swift & SwiftUI·MIT License·Open Source
macOS Sonoma 14.0+
Xcode 15+ (build from source)
cc65 (optional, for compiling)