Ares

ares

Developer(s)	Near (formerly known as byuu), LukeUsher
Latest version	v137 [+]
Active	Yes
Platform(s)	Windows Linux macOS
Architecture(s)	x64
Emulates	NES SNES Nintendo 64 Game Boy/Color Game Boy Advance WonderSwan Sega SG-1000 Sega Master System/Game Gear Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Sony PlayStation PC Engine/TurboGrafx-6 Neo Geo AES Neo Geo Pocket/Color MSX ColecoVision Pocket Challenge V2
Website	ares-emu.net
License	Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) license
Source code	GitHub

ares is a free and open-source, multi-system emulator. It is a descendent of higan and bsnes, and focuses on accuracy and preservation.

Download

	Official releases
	Flatpak ArchLinux AUR

Overview

ares began development on October 14th, 2004. It is available under the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) license, which is a permissive license that is functionally similar to the BSD and MIT licenses. It used to be under the terms of the Creative Commons (CC) BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which it made the ares emulator a non-commercial software that does not permit publishing modifications (forks) online. The reason for this was to prevent splintering development between higan and ares.

Features

• Native multi-platform UI
• Adaptive sync
• Dynamic rate control
• Save states
• Run-ahead
• Rewind and fast-forward
• Pixel shaders
• Color correction
• 6th-order IIR audio filtering
• Input multi-mapping
• Built-in games database
• Debugger