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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
− | higan is a project that originally separated from Near's previous SNES emulator [[bsnes]] when | + | higan is a project that originally separated from Near's previous SNES emulator [[bsnes]] when Near started adding more system cores. |
higan's bsnes and bgba cores are its most developed/accurate. The Nintendo 8-bit cores are very early in development, and are inferior to other existing emulators; alternatives include [[Gambatte]], [[BGB]], [[Mesen]], [[puNES]], and [[Nestopia]]. Bgba has made amazing strides from v095 on, getting very close to [[mGBA]] accuracy. higan also features a WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color core as of v098, which yields satisfactory results. The library-based GUI is not for everyone, though, and doesn't support drag and drop like a lot of other emulators do. | higan's bsnes and bgba cores are its most developed/accurate. The Nintendo 8-bit cores are very early in development, and are inferior to other existing emulators; alternatives include [[Gambatte]], [[BGB]], [[Mesen]], [[puNES]], and [[Nestopia]]. Bgba has made amazing strides from v095 on, getting very close to [[mGBA]] accuracy. higan also features a WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color core as of v098, which yields satisfactory results. The library-based GUI is not for everyone, though, and doesn't support drag and drop like a lot of other emulators do. | ||
− | Near noticed that higan's UI is not for everybody and made a standalone version of [[bsnes]] that is developed in parallel with higan's SNES core and has a Qt UI that's just like the earlier versions. | + | Near noticed that higan's UI is not for everybody and made a standalone version of [[bsnes]] that is developed in parallel with higan's SNES core and has a Qt UI that's just like the earlier versions. Near also worked on the new multi-system emulator [[byuu (emulator)|byuu]] that aims to combine higan with the ease of use of bsnes. For those that still aren't satisfied, [[RetroArch]] has its own libretro cores of higan and bsnes to use with its interface. |
===Game folders=== | ===Game folders=== |
Revision as of 23:18, 30 April 2022
Developer(s) | Near (formerly known as byuu), contributors |
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Latest version | v110 |
Active | Yes |
Platform(s) | Windows macOS Linux OpenBSD FreeBSD |
Emulates | NES SNES Game Boy/Color Game Boy Advance WonderSwan Sega SG-1000 Sega Master System/Game Gear Sega Genesis/Mega Drive PC Engine/TurboGrafx-6 Neo Geo Pocket/Color MSX ColecoVision |
Accuracy | System-dependent |
License | GNU GPLv3 |
Source code | GitHub |
higan is an open-source, multi-system emulator.
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Official releases |
Overview
higan is a project that originally separated from Near's previous SNES emulator bsnes when Near started adding more system cores.
higan's bsnes and bgba cores are its most developed/accurate. The Nintendo 8-bit cores are very early in development, and are inferior to other existing emulators; alternatives include Gambatte, BGB, Mesen, puNES, and Nestopia. Bgba has made amazing strides from v095 on, getting very close to mGBA accuracy. higan also features a WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color core as of v098, which yields satisfactory results. The library-based GUI is not for everyone, though, and doesn't support drag and drop like a lot of other emulators do.
Near noticed that higan's UI is not for everybody and made a standalone version of bsnes that is developed in parallel with higan's SNES core and has a Qt UI that's just like the earlier versions. Near also worked on the new multi-system emulator byuu that aims to combine higan with the ease of use of bsnes. For those that still aren't satisfied, RetroArch has its own libretro cores of higan and bsnes to use with its interface.
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
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.
External links
- higan Manual (community-maintained)
See also
- bsnes - Near's Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom) emulator.
- ares - Near's other multi-system emulator.
- byuu - Was a multi-system emulator by Near that was aimed to provide the accuracy of it's predecessor higan. It is now merged back into higan.
- Emulators
- Multi-emulators
- Console emulators
- Home console emulators
- Handheld console emulators
- Computer emulators
- Nintendo Entertainment System emulators
- Super Nintendo emulators
- Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators
- Game Boy Advance emulators
- WonderSwan emulators
- SG-1000 emulators
- Master System emulators
- Sega Genesis emulators
- PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators
- Neo Geo Pocket/Neo Geo Pocket Color emulators
- MSX emulators
- Windows emulation software
- Linux emulation software
- MacOS emulation software
- BSD emulation software