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|website = [https://higan.dev/ higan.dev]
No updates since 2021.
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{{Infobox emulator
|title = higan
|logo = Higanlogo.png
|logowidth = 267150
|developer = Near <small>(formerly known as byuu)</small>, [https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/blob/master/CREDITS.md contributors]
|version = {{higanVer}}
|active = YesNo
|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]]</br>[[SG-1000 emulators|Sega SG-1000]]</br>[[Master System emulators|Sega Master System/Game Gear]]</br>[[Sega Genesis emulators|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 = System-dependent
|license = GNU GPLv3
|source = [https://github.com/higan-emu/higan GitHub (active)]<br>[https://github.com/byuu/higan Github (archive)]
}}
'''higan''' is an open-source, [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]]. It is now succeeded by the actively updated [[ares]].
==Download==
==Overview==
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.
===Game folders===
==List of forks==
===nSide===
'''[https://gitlab.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 v098 onwards with full speed.
