Demand what the city wants

Zones

Infrastructure

Services

Land 120 × 100 map

Controls

Click: Build, pick menu items
Drag: Draw roads, rails, power lines
Right-drag: Pan the map (or push the edges)
Right-click: Back: closes submenus and windows
Middle: Hide the menus
Arrows: Move the cursor
Z X: B (confirm) · A
A S: Y · X
C V: L · R
Enter: Start · Shift Select

SimCity for the Super Nintendo, running natively in your browser

This is the 1991 SNES SimCity. Its 65816 machine code was translated to C with snesrecomp and compiled to WebAssembly, so the game's own code runs directly instead of through an emulated CPU. The graphics and sound chips are still emulated.

What's new

Mouse controls. The original only had the gamepad.
Live city stats on the side: population, funds, RCI demand, zones, roads, services and land use.
Fast-forward up to 8×.
An old-TV filter with scanlines and a phosphor mask.
The city keeps running in a background tab, with the date in the tab title.

How to play

You need your own SimCity (USA) ROM, .sfc or .smc. Load it once and it stays in your browser; nothing is uploaded, and saved cities stay there too. Click to build, drag to draw roads, rails and power lines, right-drag to move the map, and right-click to go back.

A fan experiment by Guido Crego (@kabronero). Not affiliated with Nintendo, Maxis or Electronic Arts. SimCity is a trademark of Electronic Arts. No ROM is included.