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'''higan''' (formerly bsnes) is an open -source , [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator. Currently, the only thing worth using in higan is the [[cycle-accurate]] snes core. It was created in response to inaccurate [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]] emulators such as is now succeeded by the actively updated [[zsnesares]] and shoddy ROM hacks.

[http://byuu.org/higan/ higan]{| cellpadding="4"|-|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac|BSD}}|'''[httphttps://www.mediafiregithub.com/downloadhigan-emu/3ucbby63ggtmd19higan/bsnes_v73_Qt.7z Bsnes 0.73releases Official releases]'''|}

===Bsnes versions===Bsnes has 3 different versions: Performance, Balanced, and Accuracy. The Balanced version higan is recommended for modern PCs. Use the Accuracy version only for extreme casesa project that originally separated from Near's previous SNES emulator [[bsnes]] when more system cores were added.

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.

There are two games known to manipulate 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 PPU midearlier versions, while also working on a new multi-scanline; “A.S.P. – Air Strike Patrol system emulator [[byuu (USAemulator)” and “Uniracers (USA)”|byuu]] that aimed to combine higan with the ease of use of bsnes. Uniracers works because it’s the only game For those that tries to manipulate OAM mid-scanlinestill aren't satisfied, [[RetroArch]] has its own libretro cores of higan and bsnes just happens to behave exactly the way that Uniracers expects. Air Strike Patrol is missing the shadow beneath the plane, which make the game harder to playuse with its interface.

===Game Foldersfolders===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.

Higan ==List of forks=====nSide==='''[https://gitlab.com/hex-usr/nSide nSide]''' is unique a fork of higan that, among emulators other things, adds support for introducing more boards such as the concept of game foldersAtari 2600 as well as peripherals and the VS. UniSystem to the NES core. Game folders were about accurately representing It also retains the game cartridge SNES Balanced core and its metadata. Things like SRAMthus makes available new improvements to higan, cheatssuch as the WASAPI driver and the IIR-Biquad interpolation filter, input settings, emulator metadata get stored to users whose computers cannot run the Accuracy core-only releases from higan v098 onwards with the gamefull speed.

==ReviewExternal links==The bsnes core is the only one worth using in * [https://higan. The others are very early in development, and are inferior to other existing emulatorsreadthedocs. Alternatives include [[Gambatteio/ higan Manual]], [[VBA(community-M]], and [[Nestopia]].maintained)

Version 0==See also==* [[bsnes]] - Near's [[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom)]] emulator.73 is an older, but easier to use version of bsnes* [[ares]] - Near's other [[Multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]]. Another alternative is to use the bsnes core in * [[byuu (emulator)|byuu]] - Was a [[RetroArchMulti-system emulators|multi-system emulator]] by Near that was aimed to get around some provide the accuracy of the less-user friendly designs in it's predecessor higan. It is now merged back into higan.

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