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|version = {{aresVerVersion|ares}}

|target = [[Atari 2600 emulators|Atari 2600]]</br>[[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|NES]], </br>[[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]], </br>[[Nintendo 64 emulators|N64Nintendo 64]], </br>[[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|GB]], [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|GB/GBC]], </br>[[Game Boy Advance emulators|GBAGame Boy Advance]], </br>[[WonderSwan emulators|WSWonderSwan]], </br>[[SG-1000 emulators|Sega SG-1000]], </br>[[Master System emulators|SMSSega Master System/GGGame Gear]], </br>[[Sega Genesis emulators|GENSega Genesis/Mega Drive]], </br>[[PlayStation emulators|PSXSony PlayStation]], </br>[[PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators|PCEPC Engine/TurboGrafx-16]], </br>[[Neo Geo and variants|NG Neo Geo AES]], </br>[[Neo Geo Pocket emulators|NGP]], [[Neo Geo Pocket emulators|NGPC/Color]], </br>[[MSX emulators|MSX]], </br>[[ColecoVision emulators|CVColecoVision]]</br>[[ZX Spectrum line|Sinclair ZX Spectrum]], </br>Pocket Challenge V2|website = [https://ares-emulator.githubemu.io net ares-emulator.githubemu.ionet]

|source = [https://github.com/higanares-emuemulator/ares GitHub]

|align=center|{{Icon|Win-big|Mac-big}}|'''[https://github.com/higanares-emuemulator/ares/releases Official releases]'''

|align=center|{{Icon|Lin-big}}|'''[https://flathub.org/apps/details/dev.ares.ares Flatpak]'''<br/>'''[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ares-emu/ ArchLinux AUR]'''

ares began development as bsnes on October 14th, 2004. It is available under the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) license, which is a permissive license that is functionally similar to the BSD and MIT licenses. It used to be under the terms of the Creative Commons (CC) BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which it made the ares emulator a non-commercial software that does not permit publishing modifications (forks) online. The reason for this was to prevent splintering development between higan and ares. Most cores in ares are original and were started when the project was run by Near, although its Nintendo 64 core's graphics emulation is based on Themaister's ParaLLEl-RDP Vulkan renderer as well as MAME's software renderer, and an original Atari 2600 core was added later. Its most useful cores are the ones that have been in development the longest or that have few competing options. Its SNES emulation is derived from that of the original [[bsnes]] project and is the most accurate one around. Its WonderSwan and Neo Geo Pocket emulation are also the most complete and accurate, with the highest compatibility available (100% in the case of the WonderSwan). The change 32x emulation has 95% compatibility with commercial games and is by far the best option for that system. Other cores are less useful, with known incompatibilities and other emulators available that are both faster and more accurate. The GBA emulation was derived from work done in bsnes for the Creative Commons license to ST018 coprocessor and is highly accurate, but is slower and less accurate than [[mGBA]]. The Genesis emulation lacks the ISC license was made before Near tragically passed away100% compatibility with commercial games claimed by other emulators. Its Atari 2600 emulation is well behind [[Stella]] and [[MAME]].