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|[https://byuu.org/bsnes bsnes releases]<br/><small>Stable and dev builds</small>
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|[http://github.com/devinacker/bsnes-plus/releases bsnes-plus v073+3a]
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|[http://github.com/sharknnth/bsnes-classic/releases bsnes-classic]
===bsnes versions===higan's Super Nintendo emulator, '''bsnes''', has 3 different profiles: Performance, Balanced, and Accuracy. The Balanced version is recommended for modern PCs. Use the Accuracy profile only for extreme cases. The Balanced profile was previously known as "Compatibility" in versions before v092. The main concession to performance in the Balanced core is the PPU (graphics) emulation – rather than render a pixel at a time as real hardware must do, it renders an entire scanline at a time. Because Nintendo told project that orginally separted from Nears provious SNES programmers not to mess with the PPU while scanline rendering was in progress, this has no effect in most games – but some programmers deliberately broke the rules and these games will have problems in the Balanced core. There are two games known to manipulate the PPU mid-scanline; “A.S.P. – Air Strike Patrol (USA)” and “Uniracers (USA)”. Uniracers works because it’s the only game that tries to manipulate OAM mid-scanline, and emulator [[bsnes just happens to behave exactly the way that Uniracers expects. Air Strike Patrol is missing the shadow beneath the plane, which makes the game harder to play. v098 is the last release of higan which includes the Balanced and Performance profiles. Future releases will only include the Accuracy profile]] when he started adding more system cores.
===bsnes (Official Release)===
'''[https://byuu.org/bsnes bsnes]'''is a subset project of higan, and focuses on performance, features, and ease of use. It returns to the Qt GUI that it abandoned before its merger with higan and has a much faster multi-threaded PPU renderer, giving it the performance of the old bsnes-balanced core while retaining the accuracy of the bsnes-accurate core.
===csnes===
'''[https://helmet.kafuka.org/byuubackup2/viewtopic.php@f=2&t=2131.html csnes]''' is a separate emulator made by byuu for commercial use, specifically companies that wish to re-release SNES titles they hold the licenses to. It is made completely from scratch and aims for speed and performance while maintaining a high level of accuracy for all licensed SNES titles.
===bsnes-hd===
[https://github.com/DerKoun/bsnes-hd bsnes-hd] (formally "HD Mode 7 mod, for bsnes") is a newer fork of bsnes (released in 2019 by DerKoun) that adds HD video features, such as:
* '''HD Mode 7''' – Rendering the rotated, scaled or pseudo perspective backgrounds at higher resolutions. This does not involve new custom imagery or upscaling algorithms. It is a higher resolution version of the process the SNES uses.
* '''Widescreen''' – Extending the scenes to the left and right, without distorting them. Works for most Mode 7 scenes, but also for some other scenes/games, after some setting tweaking.
* '''Some non-HD related features''' – Like the ability to disable background layers, sprites and window effects for screenshots for wallpapers or soft crop to zoom in, leaving maps or static art off the sides of the screen.
Some of the features of this fork are or will be included in official bsnes. The difference is that official bsnes only has slight visual improvements but with mostly perfect compatibility. bsnes-hd has more hacks that give true HD in mode 7 SNES games and widescreen in other games.
===bsnes-mercury===
There is a fork of bsnes known as '''[https://github.com/libretro/bsnes-mercury bsnes-mercury]''', which aims to restore functionality like HLE DSP chip emulation and SGB emulation using Gambatte that was removed in later versions of bsnes, as well as to have some optimizations that don't affect emulation accuracy. It also has an option to overclock SuperFX. Default options make it exactly the same as regular bsnes, with LLE DSP chip emulation enabled. This fork is only available as a [[libretro]] core, though it is possible to build it with Ethos (byuu's frontend) instead.
This fork is developed by Alcaro, who developed [[ZSNES#ZMZ|ZMZ]] and is also developing his own [[libretro]] frontend, [https://github.com/Alcaro/minir minir].
===bsnes-classic===
'''[https://github.com/awjackson/bsnes-classic bsnes-classic]''' is a fork of bsnes v073 that aims to backport emulation improvements from current higan while keeping the features of the older version's Qt GUI.
===Other Forks===
* [[BizHawk]]: bsnes v087 fork with added TAS features. Multi-system. Used for tool-assisted speedruns and has a debugger.
* [http://www.bannister.org/software/bsnes.htm bsnes macOS]: bsnes v068 fork for macOS. Discontinued.
* [https://github.com/Themaister/bsnes-Qt bsnes-Qt]: bsnes v073 fork to maintain Qt GUI.
* [https://github.com/LuigiBlood/bsnes-sx2 bsnes-sx2]: bsnes fork with added Satellaview features. Discontinued. Merged with bsnes-plus.
* [https://github.com/devinacker/bsnes-plus bsnes-plus]: bsnes-classic fork with added superior debugging features.
* [https://github.com/libretro/bsnes-libretro-cplusplus98 bsnes-cplusplus98]: bsnes v085 port to C++98. For Win9x-compatible [[RetroArch]] versions.
* [https://github.com/AndreaOrru/bsnes-gilgamesh bsnes-gilgamesh]: bsnes-mercury fork with added SQL database for CPU instructions.
* bsnes-hle: bsnes fork with HLE regressions.
* [https://github.com/libretro/bsnes-libretro bsnes-libretro]: higan v094 fork for [[RetroArch]].
* [https://gitlab.com/hex-usr/bsnes-mcfly bsnes-mcfly]: higan v106 fork with the Qt GUI from bsnes v073.
* bsnes-rr: bsnes fork with re-recording features.
* [https://github.com/grim210/defimulator/tree/master/defimulator defimulator]: bsnes v074 fork.
* [https://github.com/quequotion/higan-qq higan-qq]: higan v094 fork.
* [http://repo.or.cz/w/lsnes.git lsnes]: bsnes fork with added TAS features.
* [https://github.com/OpenEmu/BSNES-Core OpenEmu/BSNES-Core]: bsnes v089 fork for macOS.
* [https://github.com/bozalina/snesbox SnesBox]: bsnes port to C#.
* [https://github.com/juliangoracke/xSnes-Diverted-from-Higan-094 xSnes]: higan v094 fork to remove non-SNES systems.
Discontinued forks: honou, IronSNES, SSNES (which became RetroArch). [[Mednafen]] has a bsnes v059 fork as its SNES core.
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{{WIP}}'''higan''' (formerly '''bsnes''') is an open-source, [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]]. It was created in response to inaccurate SNES emulators such as [[ZSNES]] and shoddy ROM hacks. It is also available as a [[libretro]] core for [[RetroArch]].
==Download==
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==Overview==
===Game folders===
higan is unique among emulators for introducing the concept of game folders. Game folders were about accurately representing the game cartridge and its metadata. Things like SRAM, cheats, input settings, emulator metadata get stored with the game.
==List of forks==
===nSide===
'''[https://gitlab.com/hex-usr/nSide nSide]''' is a fork of higan that, among other things, adds support for more boards such as the Atari 2600 as well as peripherals and the VS. UniSystem to the NES core. It also retains the SNES Balanced core and thus makes available new improvements to higan, such as the WASAPI driver and the IIR-Biquad interpolation filter, to users whose computers cannot run the Accuracy core-only releases from higan v098 onwards with full speed.
==Review==
==External links==
* [https://higan.readthedocs.io/ higan manualManual] (community-maintained)
* [https://byuu.org/higan/user-guide higan User Guide] (official guide to using higan)
