Last Updated on: 26th December 2023, 12:19 pm
Web site: github.com/higan-emu/higan
Category: Emulators
Platform: BSD, Linux, OS X, Windows
License: GNU GPL
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia: Higan_(emulator)
First release: October 14, 2004
Higan – a multi-system emulator focused on accuracy, preservation, and configurability. Higan is a multi-system emulator, originally developed by Near, with an uncompromising focus on accuracy and code readability.
Higan strives to provide the most faithful hardware emulation possible. It focuses on accuracy and clean code, rather than speed and special features. It is meant as a reference emulator to document how the underlying hardware works. As a result the minimum system requirements are high.
It currently emulates the following systems: Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Super Famicom, Super Game Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Player, SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, Mega CD, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, ColecoVision, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal, Pocket Challenge V2.
Higan is a successor of bsnes and precessor of Ares