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higan, the multi-system emulator
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higan emulates a number of classic videogame consoles of the 1980s and 1990s,
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allowing you to play classic games on a modern general-purpose computer.
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About higan
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As of v102,
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higan has top-tier support for the following consoles:
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- Nintendo Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System,
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including addon hardware:
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- Super Game Boy
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- Sufami Turbo
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- Nintendo Game Boy Advance
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It also includes some level of support for these consoles:
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- Satellaview addon for the Super Famicom
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- Nintendo Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System
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- Nintendo Game Boy
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- Nintendo Game Boy Color
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- Sega Master System
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- Sega Game Gear
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- Sega Megadrive/Genesis
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- NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 (but not the CD-ROM² System/TurboGrafx-CD)
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- NEC SuperGrafx
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- Bandai Wonderswan
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- Bandai Wonderswan Color
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**Note:** Some consoles were released under different names
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in different geographic regions.
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To avoid listing all possible names
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every time such a console is mentioned,
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higan uses the name from the console's region of origin.
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In practice,
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that means Japanese names:
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"Famicom" and "Super Famicom" instead of NES and SNES,
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"Mega Drive" instead of "Genesis",
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"PC Engine" instead of "TurboGrafx-16".
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higan is actively supported on
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FreeBSD 10 and above, and
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Microsoft Windows 7 and above.
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It also includes some level of support
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for GNU/Linux and macOS.
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If you want to install higan and try it out,
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see the [Quick Start](qs.md) section below.
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higan is officially spelled with a lowercase "h", not a capital.
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About this document
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-------------------
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This is the unofficial higan README,
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a community-maintained introduction and reference.
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It may be out of date
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by the time you read this,
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and it may contain errors or omissions.
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If you find something that's wrong,
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or you have a suggestion,
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see "Unofficial higan resources" below.
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Official higan resources
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- [Official homepage](https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/)
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- [Official forum](https://board.byuu.org/viewforum.php?f=4)
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Unofficial higan resources
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--------------------------
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- [Source code repository](https://gitlab.com/higan/higan/)
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archives official higan releases
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and WIP snapshots
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since approximately v067r21.
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- [Quark shader repository](https://github.com/hizzlekizzle/quark-shaders)
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collects shaders that higan can use
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to add special effects like TV scanlines to its video output,
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or smarter algorithms for scaling up to modern PC resolutions.
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See [Using video shaders][shaders] below for details.
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- [Mercurial Magic](https://github.com/hex-usr/Mercurial-Magic/)
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is a tool for converting MSU-1 games and mods into a format
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higan can use.
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See [Importing MSU-1 games][msu1] for details.
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[shaders]: guides/shaders.md
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[msu1]: guides/import.md#msu-1-games
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There are also other projects
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based on current or older versions of higan,
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in whole or in part,
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that you might want to check out.
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- [Mednafen](https://mednafen.github.io/)
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is another multi-system emulator.
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Its Super Famicom emulation is based on bsnes v059,
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from the time before bsnes was renamed to higan.
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- [BizHawk](http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk.html)
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is another multi-system emulator,
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specialising in the creation of
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tool-assisted speedruns.
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Its Super Famicom emulation is based on bsnes v087.
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- [bsnes-plus](https://github.com/devinacker/bsnes-plus)
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is a fork of bsnes v073
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that adds improved support for debugging Super Famicom software.
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- [bsnes-mercury](https://github.com/libretro/bsnes-mercury/)
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is a fork of bsnes v094
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adapted to work as a
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[libretro](https://www.libretro.com/) emulation core.
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- [nSide](https://github.com/hex-usr/nSide)
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is a fork of higan that greatly enhances
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its NES emulation support,
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and adds minor features to the other cores too.
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It also restores the "balanced" Super Famicom emulation core
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that was removed from higan in v099,
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which is less CPU intensive
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than the current accuracy-focussed core.
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