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|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/NovaSquirrelmkwong98/Mesen Nova Squirrel] has a Mesen1 fork for maintaining the codebase and accept pull requests<small> ; [https://github.com/mkwong98/Mesen& NovaSquirrel] also has have a fork that has released numerous "beta" builds</small>

|support = [https://www.mesenpatreon.cacom/Donate.php Mesen Patreon]

'''Mesen''' is an 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. Before 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, it . The older Mesen 0.x branch could only emulate NES, and SNES/GB(C) emulation is was found in a seperate separate emulator named [[Mesen-S]]. The classic NES-only version is also available as a current Mesen [[Libretro]] core for [[RetroArch]]is still based on the 0. The macOS version currently must be compiled x branch, but receiving backports from sourcethe newer branch. For the sake of simplicity, we will refer to the 0.x branch as Mesen1.

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|colspan="3"|<hr/>|-|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin-big|macOS}}|[https://aurgithub.archlinux.orgcom/packagesSourMesen/mesen Arch LinuxMesen2#development-builds Dev builds]<br><small>Latest stable package</small>

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 Mesen2.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.

|[https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X Mesen -X]

|[https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X/releases/ 20222023-0509-1511]<br/>[https://github.com/negativeExponent/libretro_builds/releases libretro core]|{{✗✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~✗}}

;[https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X Mesen -X]:This fork is was meant to gather development efforts from different forksof the 0.x branch. Not under active development but pull requests are welcome, and archived as of September.[https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X/issues/152 This fork is deprecated as of Mesen2Mesen 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]]