Installer ares-emulator avec Homebrew Cask

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

Aucun alias exécutable n'a été trouvé dans la base locale des paquets.

Historique du projet

The lineage began on October 14, 2004 as bsnes, initially a Super Famicom emulator. As additional systems were incorporated, the project was renamed higan on August 9, 2012. A separate bsnes revival followed in February 2019 to restore a focused, approachable Super Famicom emulator.

ares was created as a fork of higan on March 25, 2020. Its goals included a simpler multi-system user experience and support for systems such as Nintendo 64 and PlayStation that were poorly suited to higan's cycle-accurate architecture. On July 5, 2021, ares became a public open-source project with Luke Usher as project lead.

Historique d'adoption

The project entered public open-source development in July 2021 under Luke Usher's leadership. Official binaries are supplied for Windows and macOS, while Linux users are generally encouraged to build optimized binaries or use linked distribution packages. Universal macOS binaries arrived with ares v130 in 2022.

Modes d'utilisation

Users supply their own game software and, for systems that require it, appropriate firmware or BIOS data, then launch titles through the desktop interface. The project favors accurate emulation and preservation work; some cores therefore demand more processing power than performance-oriented alternatives.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

ares is important to emulator enthusiasts because it combines a multi-system scope with an explicit emphasis on accuracy and software preservation. Its ancestry connects three influential emulator identities—bsnes, higan, and ares—and its support for newer systems reflects a deliberate move beyond higan's strictly cycle-accurate model where that model was impractical.

Chronologie

• 2004-10-14: Project lineage began as bsnes.
• 2012-08-09: The expanding multi-system project was renamed higan.
• 2019-02-22: bsnes was revived as a focused higan spin-off.
• 2020-03-25: ares was created as a fork of higan.
• 2021-07-05: ares became a public open-source project under Luke Usher's leadership.
• 2022-09-30: ares v130 introduced universal macOS binaries and Nintendo 64DD emulation.

Related projects

• bsnes is the original Super Famicom-focused ancestor and later spin-off. higan is the direct multi-system predecessor and continues to share some code and fixes with ares.

Sources

• Official ares downloads: https://ares-emu.net/download
• Official ares history: https://ares-emu.net/about
• Official ares repository supplied in source_facts.repo: https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares
• Official v130 announcement: https://ares-emu.net/news/ares-v130-released