ares

ares is a multi-system emulator that began development on October 14th, 2004. It is a descendent of higan and bsnes, and focuses on accuracy and preservation.

Official Releases

Official releases are available from the GitHub releases page.

Nightly Builds

Automated, untested builds of ares are available for Windows and macOS as a pre-release. Only the latest nightly build is kept.

Features

• Native multi-platform UI
• Adaptive sync
• Dynamic rate control
• Save states
• Run-ahead
• Rewind and fast-forward
• Pixel shaders
• Color correction
• 6th-order IIR audio filtering
• Input multi-mapping
• Built-in games database
• Debugger

Systems:

ares currently emulates the following 27 hardware devices:

Status	Name
	Famicom + Famicom Disk System
	Super Famicom + Super Game Boy
	Nintendo 64
	Game Boy + Game Boy Color
	Game Boy Advance
	SG-1000
	Master System + Game Gear
	Mega Drive + Mega 32X + Mega CD
	PlayStation
	PC Engine + PC Engine CD + SuperGrafx
	Neo Geo AES
	MSX + MSX2
	ColecoVision
	Neo Geo Pocket + Neo Geo Pocket Color
	WonderSwan + WonderSwan Color + Pocket Challenge V2