No sound in zsnes unless run with sudo

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I'm not sure why this happens, but try killing all instances of esd (the
Enlightened Sound Daemon) and then running zsnes (if you have more
troubles, make sure you don't have rhythmbox or other media player
running).

Applications > System Tools > System Monitor
Find 'esd' under process name and click End Process. Repeat until there
are no more.
Run zsnes

Or you can do it with this script (which will restart esd when zsnes
finishes too):

Code:
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    #! /bin/sh
  # Runs zsnes.
  # Since zsnes doesn't like having esd run at the same time, we have to run
  #  kill esd. But we want it back up and running again so that we can play
  #  music and stuff.
  
  killall esd
  zsnes
  esd -nobeeps &
  
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copy and paste into gedit, save into ~/scripts/zsnes.sh, open terminal
and type -chmod 744 ~/scripts/zsnes.sh- (you can also use 755 to allow
other users to run that script. see -man chmod- for more info).

or if the script is too much for you, you can just add this as a
command from the run application dialog:

Code:
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    killall esd; zsnes; esd -nobeeps &
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-kalos


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kalos