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===bsnes versions===higan's Super Nintendo is a project that orginally separted from Nears provious SNES emulator, '''[[bsnes''', has 3 different profiles: Performance, Balanced, and Accuracy. The Balanced version is recommended for modern PCs. Use the Accuracy profile only for extreme cases. The Balanced profile was previously known as "Compatibility" in versions before v0.92]] when he started adding more system cores.
There are two games known to manipulate the PPU mid-scanline; “A.S.P. – Air Strike Patrol (USA)” Near noticed that higan's UI is not for everybody and “Uniracers (USA)”. Uniracers works because it’s the only game made a standalone version of [[bsnes]] that tries to manipulate OAM mid-scanline, is developed in parallel with higan's SNES core and bsnes has a Qt UI that's just happens to behave exactly like the way that Uniracers expectsearlier versions. Air Strike Patrol He is missing also working on the shadow beneath new multi-system emulator [[byuu (emulator)|byuu]] that aims to combine higan with the planeease of use of bsnes. For those that still aren't satisfied, which makes the game harder to play. v0.98 is the last release [[RetroArch]] has its own libretro cores of higan which includes the Balanced and Performance profiles. Future releases will only include the Accuracy profilebsnes to use with its interface.
===bsnes (Official Release)===
'''[https://byuu.org/?bsnes_v107 bsnes]'''is a '''[https://byuu.org/emulation/bsnes/ subset]''' project of higan, and focuses on performance, features, and ease of use. It returns to the Qt GUI that it abandoned before its merger with higan and has a much faster multi-threaded PPU renderer, giving it the performance of the old bsnes-balanced core while retaining the accuracy of the bsnes-accurate core.
===csnes===
'''[https://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2131 csnes]''' is a separate emulator made by byuu for commercial use, specifically companies that wish to re-release SNES titles they hold the licenses to. It is made completely from scratch and aims for speed and performance while maintaining a high level of accuracy for all licensed SNES titles.
===bsnes-mercury===
There is a fork of bsnes known as '''[https://github.com/libretro/bsnes-mercury bsnes-mercury]''', which aims to restore functionality like HLE DSP chip emulation and SGB emulation using Gambatte that was removed in later versions of bsnes, as well as to have some optimizations that don't affect emulation accuracy. It also has an option to overclock SuperFX. Default options make it exactly the same as regular bsnes, with LLE DSP chip emulation enabled. This fork is only available as a [[libretro]] core, though it is possible to build it with Ethos (byuu's frontend) instead.
This fork is developed by Alcaro, who developed [[ZSNES#ZMZ|ZMZ]] and is also developing his own [[libretro]] frontend, [https://github.com/Alcaro/minir minir].
===bsnes-classic===
'''[https://github.com/awjackson/bsnes-classic bsnes-classic]''' is a fork of bsnes v0.73 that aims to backport emulation improvements from current higan while keeping the features of the older version's Qt GUI.
Discontinued forks==Resources==* [https: honou, IronSNES, SSNES //www.youtube.com/byuusan YouTube channel] (which became RetroArchBy 'Near'). [[Mednafen]] has a bsnes v0.59 fork as its SNES core.
byuu noticed that Higan's UI is not for everybody and made a standalone version of ==See also==* [[bsnes that is developed in parallel with Higan]] - Near's SNES core and has a Qt UI that[[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom)]] emulator.* [[byuu (emulator)|byuu]] - Near's just like the earlier versionsother [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]]. For those that still aren* [[csnes]] - Near't satisfied, s commercial [[RetroArchSuper Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] has its own libretro cores of bsnes to use with its interfaceemulator.
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{{Infobox emulator
|title = higan
|logo = IconHiganlogo.png|logowidth = 160267|developer = [[Near]] <small>(formerly known as byuu et al)</small>, [https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/blob/master/CREDITS.md contributors]
|version = {{higanVer}}
|active = Yes
|platform = Windows, macOS, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, [[libretro]]|target = [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|Nintendo Entertainment System (Family Computer)NES]], [[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Family Computer)SNES]], [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Nintendo GB]], [[Game Boy/Game Boy Coloremulators|GBC]], [[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy AdvanceGBA]], [[WonderSwan emulators|Bandai WonderSwan/ColorWS]], [[Master System emulators|Sega Master SystemSMS]], [[Master System emulators|Game GearGG]], [[Sega Genesis emulators|Genesis/Mega DriveGEN]], [[PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators|NEC PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)PCE]], [[MSX emulators|MSX]], [[ColecoVision emulators|COL]]
|compatibility = <small>100% for commercial titles<br/>Some homebrew may have small defects</small>
|accuracy = System-dependent
|website = [httphttps://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ byuu.org]
|support = [https://www.patreon.com/byuu Patreon]
|license = GNU GPL v3GPLv3|source = [https://gitlabgithub.com/higan-emu/higan GitLabGitHub (active)]<br>[https://github.com/byuu/higan Github (archive)]
}}
{{WIP}}'''higan''' (formerly '''bsnes''') is an open-source, [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]]. It was created in response to inaccurate SNES emulators such as [[ZSNES]] and shoddy ROM hacks. It is also available as a [[libretro]] core for [[RetroArch]].
==DownloadsDownload==* {| cellpadding="4"|-|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac|BSD}}|'''[httphttps://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ higan]* [https://byuu.org/emulation/bsnes/ bsnes Official]* [http://github.com/devinacker/bsnes-plus/releases bsnes-plus v0.73+3a]* [http:'''<br//github.com/sharknnth/bsnes-classic/releases bsnes-classic (GitHub ><small>Stable and dev builds)]* [http://www.emucr.com/search/label</bsnes-classic bsnes-classic (EmuCR builds)]small>* [https://github.com/hex-usr/nSide/releases nSide v0.09r16]|}
==Overview==
higan's bsnes and bgba cores are its most developed/accurate. The main concession Nintendo 8-bit cores are very early in development, and are inferior to performance in the Balanced 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 is the PPU (graphics) emulation – rather than render a pixel at a time as real hardware must doof v098, it renders an entire scanline at a timewhich yields satisfactory results. Because Nintendo told SNES programmers The library-based GUI is not to mess with the PPU while scanline rendering was in progressfor everyone, though, this has no effect in most games – but some programmers deliberately broke the rules and these games will have problems in the Balanced coredoesn't support drag and drop like a lot of other emulators do.
===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===
'''[https://githubgitlab.com/hex-usr/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 v0.98 v098 onwards with full speed. ===Other Forks===* [[BizHawk]]: bsnes v0.87 fork with added TAS features. Multi-system. Used for tool-assisted speedruns and has a debugger.* [http://www.bannister.org/software/bsnes.htm bsnes macOS]: bsnes v0.68 fork for macOS. Discontinued.* [https://github.com/Themaister/bsnes-Qt bsnes-Qt]: bsnes v0.73 fork to maintain Qt GUI.* [https://github.com/LuigiBlood/bsnes-sx2 bsnes-sx2]: bsnes fork with added Satellaview features. Discontinued. Merged with bsnes-plus.* [https://github.com/devinacker/bsnes-plus bsnes-plus]: bsnes v0.73 fork with added superior debugging features.* [https://github.com/libretro/bsnes-libretro-cplusplus98 bsnes-cplusplus98]: bsnes v0.85 port to C++98. For Win9x-compatible [[RetroArch]] versions.* [https://github.com/AndreaOrru/bsnes-gilgamesh bsnes-gilgamesh]: bsnes-mercury fork with added SQL database for CPU instructions.* bsnes-hle: bsnes fork with HLE regressions.* [https://github.com/libretro/bsnes-libretro bsnes-libretro]: higan v0.94 fork for [[RetroArch]].* [https://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2061&p=54005 bsnes-mcfly]: higan v0.106 fork with the Qt GUI from bsnes v0.73.* bsnes-rr: bsnes fork with re-recording features.* [https://github.com/grim210/defimulator/tree/master/defimulator defimulator]: bsnes v0.74 fork.* [https://github.com/quequotion/higan-qq higan-qq]: higan v0.94 fork.* [http://repo.or.cz/w/lsnes.git lsnes]: bsnes fork with added TAS features.* [https://github.com/OpenEmu/BSNES-Core OpenEmu/BSNES-Core]: bsnes v0.89 fork for macOS.* [https://github.com/bozalina/snesbox SnesBox]: bsnes port to C#.* [https://github.com/juliangoracke/xSnes-Diverted-from-Higan-094 xSnes]: higan v0.94 fork to remove non-SNES systems.
==ReviewExternal links==* [https://higan's bsnes and bgba cores are it's most developed.readthedocs.io/accurate. The Nintendo 8higan Manual] (community-bit cores are very early in development, and are inferior to other existing emulators; alternatives include maintained)* [[Gambatte]], [[BGB]], [[Mesen]], [[puNES]], and [[Nestopia]]. Bgba has made amazing strides from v0.95 on, getting very close to mGBA accuracyhttps://byuu. org/higan also features a WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color core as of v0.98, which yields satisfactory results. The libraryuser-based GUI is not for everyone, though, and doesn't support drag and drop like a lot of other emulators do.guide higan User Guide] (official guide to using higan)
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