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

{| 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 [[bsnes]] when more system cores were added.

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 [[http://wwwNestopia]].mediafireBgba has made amazing strides from v095 on, getting very close to [[mGBA]] accuracy.comhigan also features a WonderSwan/download/3ucbby63ggtmd19/bsnes_v73_QtWonderSwan Color core as of v098, which yields satisfactory results.7z Bsnes 0The library-based GUI is not for everyone, though, and doesn't support drag and drop like a lot of other emulators do.73]

==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 3 different a Qt UI that's just like the earlier versions: Performance, Balancedwhile also working on a new multi-system emulator [[byuu (emulator)|byuu]] that aimed 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 Accuracy. The Balanced version is recommended for modern PCs. Use the Accuracy version only for extreme casesbsnes to use with its interface.

The main concession to performance in the Balanced core ===Game folders===higan is unique among emulators for introducing the PPU (graphics) emulation – rather than render a pixel at a time as real hardware must do, it renders an entire scanline at a timeconcept of game folders. Because Nintendo told SNES programmers not to mess with Game folders were about accurately representing the PPU while scanline rendering was in progressgame cartridge and its metadata. Things like SRAM, cheats, this has no effect in most games – but some programmers deliberately broke the rules and these games will have problems in input settings, emulator metadata get stored with the Balanced coregame.

There are two games known to manipulate the PPU mid==List of forks=====nSide==='''[https://gitlab.com/hex-scanline; “A.S.P. – Air Strike Patrol (USA)” and “Uniracers (USA)”. Uniracers works because it’s the only game usr/nSide nSide]''' is a fork of higan that tries to manipulate OAM mid-scanline, among other things, adds support for more boards such as the Atari 2600 as well as peripherals and bsnes just happens the VS. UniSystem to behave exactly the way that Uniracers expectsNES core. Air Strike Patrol is missing It also retains the SNES Balanced core and thus makes available new improvements to higan, such as the shadow beneath WASAPI driver and the planeIIR-Biquad interpolation filter, which make to users whose computers cannot run the game harder to playAccuracy core-only releases from higan v098 onwards with full speed.

==ReviewExternal links==The bsnes core is the only one worth using in * [https://higan. The others are very early in development, and are inferior to other existing emulatorsreadthedocs. Alternatives include [[Gambatteio/ higan Manual]], [[VBA(community-M]], and [[Nestopia]].maintained)

Version 0==See also==* [[bsnes]] - Near's [[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom)]] emulator.73 is an older, but easier to use version of bsnes* [[ares]] - Near's other [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]]. Another alternative is to use the bsnes core in * [[byuu (emulator)|byuu]] - Was a [[RetroArchMulti-system emulators|multi-system emulator]] by Near that was aimed to get around some provide the accuracy of the less-user friendly designs in it's predecessor higan. It is now merged back into higan.

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