How To Fast Forward Snes9x and Rewind In 2024

If you’re wondering how to fast forward Snes9x and rewind it, you’ve found the right article. Super Nintendo emulation is amazing and has come so far over the years, but it does come with its share of technical issues – like figuring out how to speed up and reverse gameplay.

Snes9x is one of the best SNES emulators available, but sometimes you’ll be left confused and wondering why something just randomly isn’t working.

The Snes9x development team has made some changes over the years for which buttons are mapped to be the Snes9x speed up button to increase game speed along with the rewind button. Obviously this can be a bit confusing when something no longer works as expected, but in this article we’ll cover how you can fast forward and rewind your gameplay.

If it’s your first time setting this up, we’ll make the process very simple to follow along!

How To Fast Forward and Rewind Snes9x on PC?

• Yes, you can fast forward and rewind the Snes9x emulator
• By default, the Snes9x fast forward feature is way too fast and we’re going to slow it down just a bit to make it more usable when playing games
• First things first, boot up Snes9x and head to the top menu and find Emulation and click on it
• From the Emulation menu that appears, select Settings
• On the Emulation Settings screen, find the input for Skip Rendering

• You’ll notice that the default value for Skip Rendering is 15 (this is way too high), go ahead and change the value to something between 7 – 12 for a reasonable fast forward speed
• If in the future you need to decrease the fast forward speed, you can always come back here and update the value to make it faster or slower
• Now go back to the main screen of Snes9x by clicking the OK button
• Once back on the main Snes9x screen, from the top menu find Input and click on it
• From the menu that appears, select Customize Hotkeys

• You will see a Hotkey Configuration screen popup which is the mapping of every single hotkey that Snes9x uses
• From the Hotkey Configuration screen, on the left hand side you will see Fast forward and Rewind

• You’ll notice that by default, Fast forward is mapped to use the Tab key and that Rewind is mapped to use the R key
• Click into the Fast forward field to change the hotkey configuration to any other key you prefer, but be sure to remember what you set it to for future reference
• Next, click into the Rewind field to change the hotkey configuration to any other key you prefer as well, again making sure to make a note of which key you set it to
• Once done, click the OK button to head back to the main screen of Snes9x again

Now go ahead and boot up an SNES ROM to test your fast forward and rewind hotkeys. If you followed the steps correctly, you should now be able to fast forward and rewind your games with ease.

If you’re a fan of RetroArch, be sure to check out this guide on how to setup the RetroArch SNES core Snes9x.