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{{infoboxlowercase title}}|image = Icon.png{{Infobox emulator|imagecaption title = The name higan stands for 'Hero of Fire'|first logo = 0Higanlogo.92png|second logowidth = Yes150|fourth screenshot = byuuHigan screenshot.png|fifth developer = httpNear <small>(formerly known as byuu)</small>, [https://byuugithub.orgcom/higan-emu/higan/blob/master/CREDITS.md contributors]|third version = {{Version|Higan}}|active = Yes|platform = [[Emulators on Windows, |Windows]]</br>[[Emulators on macOS|macOS]]</br>[[Emulators on Linux|Linux]]</br>OpenBSD</br>FreeBSD|target = [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|NES]]</br>[[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]</br>[[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy/Color]]</br>[[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advance]]</br>[[WonderSwan emulators|WonderSwan/Pocket Challenge V2]]</br>[[SG-1000 emulators|Sega SG-1000]]</br>[[Master System emulators|Sega Master System/Game Gear]]</br>[[Sega Genesis emulators|imagewidth Sega Genesis/Mega Drive]]</br>[[PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators|PC Engine/TurboGrafx-6]]</br>[[Neo Geo Pocket emulators|Neo Geo Pocket/Color]]</br>[[MSX emulators|MSX]]</br>[[ColecoVision emulators|ColecoVision]]|accuracy = 160System-dependent|license = GNU GPLv3|source = [https://github.com/higan-emu/higan GitHub]}}

'''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]'''|} ==VersionsOverview==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 [[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 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 Accuracybsnes to use with its interface. The Balanced version  ===Game folders===higan is recommended unique among emulators for modern PCsintroducing the concept of game folders. Use Game folders were about accurately representing the Accuracy version only for extreme casesgame cartridge and its metadata. Things like SRAM, cheats, input settings, emulator metadata get stored with the game.

==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.

It is recommended to use the bsnes core in ==External links==* [[RetroArch]https://higan.readthedocs.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* [[bsnes]] -table" style="width: 400px; height: 20px;"|Near's [[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo Entertainment System|NES(Super Famicom)]] (Famicon)|-emulator.|* [[SNESares]] (Super Famicon)|-|Near's other [[Game Boy/Game Boy ColorMulti-system emulators|Game Boymulti-system emulator]].|-|* [[Game Boy/Game Boy Colorbyuu (emulator)|Game Boy Colorbyuu]]|-|Was a [[Game Boy Advance]]Multi-system emulators|multi-|[[Nintendo DSsystem 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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