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It wasn't ZSNES, it was your keyboard not accepting input from three keys at once !!! I know because I remember this exact thing.

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It was actually neither ZSNES or my keyboard, but SNES9X :)

from:

https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/blob/master/docs/changes...

0.72 released

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- This time really fixed Allegro library keyboard handling (DOS port); it was missing key some presses/releases (was stopping Chrono Trigger Left + Right + A button combo from working).

ZSNES certainly had the L+R+A problem, too. [1] I assume the default key mapping hit a failure case with some common limited-rollover keyboard design, but I've never bothered researching it. It's possible it was caused by Allegro, as well.

[1]: http://zsnes-docs.sourceforge.net/html/faq.htm#universal_inp...

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