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{{Infobox emulator
|title = Mesen
|logo = Mesen2logo.png
|logowidth = 64
|version = {{MesenVerVersion|Mesen}}
|active = Yes
|platform = [[Emulators on Windows|Windows]]<br/>[[Emulators on Linux|Linux]]<br/>[[Emulators on macOS|macOS 11/12]]
|target = [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|NES / Famicom]]<br/>Famicom Disk System<br/>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|SNES / Super Famicom]]<br/>[[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy (Color)]]<br/>[[TurboGrafx-16 emulators|PC-Engine (TurboGrafx-16)]]<br/>[[Master_System_emulators|Master System]]<br/>[[Master_System_emulators|Game Gear]]<br/>[[SG-1000 emulators|SG-1000]]
|developer = [https://github.com/SourMesen Sour (Mesen1 and Mesen2)]<small>; [https://github.com/mkwong98/Mesen mkwong98 & NovaSquirrel] have a fork that has released numerous "beta" builds</small>
|accuracy = Cycle-Accurate
|source = [https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2 GitHub]
}}
'''Mesen''' is a free and open-source [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|Famicom (NES)]], Famicom Disk System (FDS), Super Famicom (SNES), GB/GBC and , PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 , [[SG-1000 emulators|SG-1000]] and [[Master System emulators|Master System]]/[[Master System emulators|Game Gear]] emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS. For now, the macOS version must be compiled from source.
The version currently under development is Mesen 2.x, first released as a preview build in 2023. The older Mesen 0.x branch could only emulate NES, and SNES/GB(C) emulation was found in a separate emulator named [[Mesen S]]. The current Mesen [[Libretro]] core for [[RetroArch]] is still based on the 0.x branch, but receiving backports from the newer branch. For the sake of simplicity, we will refer to the 0.x branch as Mesen1.
==Download==
Mesen 2.x can also run SNES games, which also feature similiar features, as well as Super FX and Satellaview support.
Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) games can also be played on Mesen 2.x, but only Game Boy Color can play CGB games. For DMG games, you can choose either Game Boy or Game Boy Color, or run the game using in Super Game Boy mode by loading the Super Game Boy BIOS (1 or 2)into the SNES core.
An exclusive feature excluded from older versions is PC-Engine support, as well as the CD-ROM².
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X/releases/ 2023-09-11]<br/>[https://github.com/negativeExponent/libretro_builds/releases libretro core]
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===Comparisons===
;[https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X Mesen-X]:This fork was meant to gather development efforts from different forks of the 0.x branch. Not under active development, and archived as of September. [https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X/issues/152 This fork is deprecated as of Mesen 2.x's release.]
==Trivia==
Origins of the name essentially come from two things:
* It's "NES EMulator", backwards -> Mesen.
* It's the Japanese word used to talk about a person's gaze or point of view, (目線 - めせん - Mesen), which is the reason why the logo is an eye icon.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201015055201/https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen/issues/426#issuecomment-401466936 Mesen's Name Origins]</ref>
*
[[File:目線.ogg]]
==References==
