--- title: Using The Basic SNES Hardware To Play Minecraft | daily.dev description: A hobbyist known as Tobi ported a stripped-down version of Minecraft to the Super Nintendo, following an earlier port to the Game Boy Color. The SNES version... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-basic-snes-hardware-to-play-minecraft-cotwcirks twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using The Basic SNES Hardware To Play Minecraft | daily.dev og:description: A hobbyist known as Tobi ported a stripped-down version of Minecraft to the Super Nintendo, following an earlier port to the Game Boy Color. The SNES version... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-basic-snes-hardware-to-play-minecraft-cotwcirks og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cotwcIrkS.png og:image:alt: Using The Basic SNES Hardware To Play Minecraft og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Using The Basic SNES Hardware To Play Minecraft **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 1 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist known as Tobi ported a stripped-down version of Minecraft to the Super Nintendo, following an earlier port to the Game Boy Color. The SNES version runs on stock hardware without add-on chips like the Super FX, supporting basic block placement and destruction at a much higher resolution than the GBC version, though still limited to sprite-based graphics rather than true 3D polygons. The SFC ROM file is available for download via Patreon, and the piece speculates about what a Super FX-accelerated version with real 3D rendering might look like. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Can Minecraft run on the original SNES without any add-on chips? Yes, a hobbyist ported a basic version of Minecraft to the Super Nintendo using only its stock hardware, without add-on accelerators like the Super FX chip used in Star Fox or Doom. The port supports core mechanics like building and destroying blocks in a starting world, at a higher resolution than an earlier Game Boy Color version of the same project. _Retro hardware tinkerers explore homebrew ports like this SNES Minecraft build through daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [You, too, can play Minecraft on the SNES with this surprisingly playable version of the hit game](https://daily.dev/posts/you-too-can-play-minecraft-on-the-snes-with-this-surprisingly-playable-version-of-the-hit-game-jzss43yst) · XDA Developers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Using The SNES Super FX Chip To Run Super Mario 64](https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-snes-super-fx-chip-to-run-super-mario-64-mbpusul7i) · Hackaday · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Someone got Super Mario 64 running on the SNES using the Super FX chip](https://daily.dev/posts/someone-got-super-mario-64-running-on-the-snes-using-the-super-fx-chip-fbh0n1xhx) · XDA Developers · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Someone got Minecraft running on a Game Boy Color, and so can you](https://daily.dev/posts/someone-got-minecraft-running-on-a-game-boy-color-and-so-can-you-dim0qfh83) · XDA Developers · 10 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hand-Coded ASM Powers Homebrew SNES Game](https://daily.dev/posts/hand-coded-asm-powers-homebrew-snes-game-wjds4mzkp) · Hackaday · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-basic-snes-hardware-to-play-minecraft-cotwcirks) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Using The Basic SNES Hardware To Play Minecraft","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-basic-snes-hardware-to-play-minecraft-cotwcirks","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-basic-snes-hardware-to-play-minecraft-cotwcirks"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T20:14:52.155Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T09:10:26.283Z","description":"A hobbyist known as Tobi ported a stripped-down version of Minecraft to the Super Nintendo, following an earlier port to the Game Boy Color. 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