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'''higan''' is an open -source , [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator that originally started out as bsnes. It was created in response to inaccurate [[SNES]] emulators and shoddy ROM hacks. Currently, the only thing worth using in higan It is now succeeded by the actively updated [[cycle-accurateares]] bsnes core.

{| cellpadding="4"|-|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac|BSD}}|'''[httphttps://byuugithub.orgcom/higan-emu/ higan/releases Official releases]'''|}

==Overview==higan is a project that originally separated from Near's previous SNES emulator [http://www[bsnes]] when more system cores were added.mediafire.com/download/3ucbby63ggtmd19/bsnes_v73_Qt.7z Bsnes 0.73]

==Versions==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 3 different versions: Performancemade amazing strides from v095 on, Balancedgetting very close to [[mGBA]] accuracy. higan also features a WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color core as of v098, and Accuracywhich yields satisfactory results. The Balanced version library-based GUI is recommended not for modern PCs. Use the Accuracy version only for extreme caseseveryone, though, and doesn't support drag and drop like a lot of other emulators do.

The main concession to performance Near noticed that higan's UI is not for everybody and made a standalone version of [[bsnes]] that is developed in the Balanced parallel with higan's SNES core is and has a Qt UI that's just like the PPU earlier versions, while also working on a new multi-system emulator [[byuu (graphicsemulator) 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 SNES programmers not |byuu]] that aimed to mess combine higan with the PPU while scanline rendering was in progressease of use of bsnes. For those that still aren't satisfied, this [[RetroArch]] has no effect in most games – but some programmers deliberately broke the rules its own libretro cores of higan and these games will have problems in the Balanced corebsnes to use with its interface.

There are two games known to manipulate ===Game folders===higan is unique among emulators for introducing the PPU mid-scanline; “A.Sconcept of game folders.P. – Air Strike Patrol (USA)” and “Uniracers (USA)”. Uniracers works because it’s Game folders were about accurately representing the only game that tries to manipulate OAM mid-scanline, cartridge and bsnes just happens to behave exactly the way that Uniracers expectsits metadata. Air Strike Patrol is missing the shadow beneath the planeThings like SRAM, cheats, input settings, which make emulator metadata get stored with the game harder to play.

==ReviewList of forks==The bsnes core ===nSide==='''[https://gitlab.com/hex-usr/nSide nSide]''' is the only one worth using in a fork of higan. The others are very early in developmentthat, among other things, adds support for more boards such as the Atari 2600 as well as peripherals and are inferior the VS. UniSystem to other existing emulatorsthe NES core. Alternatives include [[Gambatte]]It also retains the SNES Balanced core and thus makes available new improvements to higan, [[VBAsuch as the WASAPI driver and the IIR-M]]Biquad interpolation filter, [[Nestopia]], and [[DeSmuMe|DeSmuME]]to users whose computers cannot run the Accuracy core-only releases from higan v098 onwards with full speed.

Version 0==External links==* [https://higan.73 is an older, but easier to use version of bsnesreadthedocs. Another alternative is to use the bsnes core in [[RetroArch]io/ higan Manual] to get around some of the less(community-user friendly designs in higan.maintained)

==Supported systemsSee also=={| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="article-table" style="width: 400px; height: 20px;"|* [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NESbsnes]] (Famicon)|-|Near's [[Super Nintendo Emulatorsemulators|SNES]] Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super FamiconFamicom)]] emulator.|-|* [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color|Game Boyares]]|-|Near's other [[Game Boy/Game Boy ColorMulti-system emulators|Game Boy Colormulti-system emulator]].|-|* [[Game Boy Advancebyuu (emulator)|byuu]]|-|Was a [[Nintendo DSMulti-system emulators|multi-system emulator]]|}by Near that was aimed to provide the accuracy of it's predecessor higan. It is now merged back into higan.

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