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|logowidth = 267150|developer = [[Near]] <small>(formerly known as byuu)</small>, [https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/blob/master/CREDITS.md contributors]

|active = YesNo|platform = [[Emulators on Windows, |Windows]]</br>[[Emulators on macOS|macOS, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, ]]</br>[[libretroEmulators 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|GB]], [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|GBC]], </br>[[Game Boy Advance emulators|GBAGame Boy Advance]], </br>[[WonderSwan emulators|WSWonderSwan]], </br>[[Master System SG-1000 emulators|SMSSega SG-1000]], </br>[[Master System emulators|GGSega Master System/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|Neo Geo Pocket/Color]]</br>[[MSX emulators|MSX]], </br>[[ColecoVision emulators|COLColecoVision]] |compatibility = <small>100% for commercial 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)]

{{WIP}}'''higan''' is an open-source, [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]]. It is now succeeded by the actively updated [[ares]].

|'''[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases Stable builds]'''|}{| cellpadding="4"|colspan=3|<hr>|-|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac|BSD}}|'''[https://cirrus-ci.com/github/higan-emu/higan/master Nightly buildsOfficial releases]'''

higan is a project that orginally separted originally separated from Nears provious Near's previous SNES emulator [[bsnes]] when he 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. He , 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.

* [[byuu (emulator)|byuuares]] - Near's other [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]].* [[csnesbyuu (emulator)|byuu]] - Near's commercial Was a [[Super Nintendo Multi-system emulators|Super Nintendo Entertainment Systemmulti-system emulator]] emulatorby Near that was aimed to provide the accuracy of it's predecessor higan. It is now merged back into higan.