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|platform = [[Emulators on Windows|Windows]], </br>[[Emulators on macOS|macOS]], </br>[[Emulators on Linux|Linux]], </br>OpenBSD, </br>FreeBSD, [[libretro]]|target = [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|NES]], </br>[[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]], </br>[[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|GB]], [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|GBC]], </br>[[Game Boy Advance emulators|GBAGame Boy Advance]], </br>[[WonderSwan emulators|WSWonderSwan]], </br>[[SG-1000 emulators|Sega SG-1000]], </br>[[Master System emulators|SMS]], [[Sega Master System emulators|GG/Game Gear]], </br>[[Sega Genesis emulators|GENSega Genesis/Mega Drive]], </br>[[PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators|PCEPC Engine/TurboGrafx-6]], </br>[[Neo Geo Pocket emulators|NGP]], [[Neo Geo Pocket emulators|NGPC/Color]], </br>[[MSX emulators|MSX]], </br>[[ColecoVision emulators|COLColecoVision]] |compatibility = <small>100% for commercial SNES titles<br/>Some homebrew may have small defects</small>

|source = [https://github.com/higan-emu/higan GitHub (active)]<br>[https://github.com/byuu/higan Github (archive)]

higan is a project that originally separated from Near's previous SNES emulator [[bsnes]] when they started adding more system coreswere 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 a Qt UI that's just like the earlier versions. They , while also worked working on the a new multi-system emulator [[byuu (emulator)|byuu]] that aims 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 bsnes to use with its interface.