Snes programming

I want to begin programming for the snes and I don't know where to start as far as programs that I will need. There are various tutorials online but I would prefer to speak to someone in the know directly via pm or on these message boards, i would even throw some gift payments through paypal, I understand time is valuable. I have a grasp of the concepts in programming, I understand the snes is not the easiest but that doesn't matter to me. I'm using windows 7 and have higan, snes9x w/ debugger, and Zsnes. Yes those are just emulators but I know that higan is useful to see what will work on actual hardware, and snes9x has the debugger that I've messed around with briefly. I already have a hex editor as well. As far as other programs I don't know what's useful, junk, outdated etc. I'd like to start out with the right tools/programming habits right off the bat.

What's your previous experience (other consoles, any assembly, games, etc.), and what do you want to achieve with the SNES?

As far as programming for consoles I have zero experience other than using a couple all in one game editors such as lunar magic and hyrule magic. Way back in high school I worked with pascal, a little c, other things I can't remember, basic, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. I know all of those have nothing to do with assembly on the snes, but I mention them to show that I'm not starting of from zero.

As far as what Id like to achieve, I would like to make full games. From platformer to rpg to whatever. Eventually after I feel comfortable, I'd like to take advantage of the msu-1.

Welcome, first off you're going to need some documentation to get started. I suggest this and this.
Next thing you'll need is something to actually build your games with. You have a couple of options, either use C (snes-sdk, fairly slow but easy to get started) or assembly.
For assembly I suggest ca65 or wla-dx, just pick one and get started.
Have fun, and a lot of patience.

Also join #snesdev on the efnet irc.

I use a program called "xkas GUI" that can be found on smwcentral.net.