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|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]]
}}
'''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 Near 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. Near , 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===
