BizHawk VS Mesen-X

Compare BizHawk vs Mesen-X and see what are their differences.

BizHawk

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores. (by TASEmulators)

Mesen-X

Mesen X is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#. This fork is meant to gather development efforts from different forks. Deprecated; see https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2/ (by NovaSquirrel)
Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
BizHawk Mesen-X
37 13
1,975 163
2.1% -
9.7 0.0
4 days ago 7 months ago
C# C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

BizHawk

Posts with mentions or reviews of BizHawk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.

Mesen-X

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mesen-X. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BizHawk and Mesen-X you can also consider the following projects:

Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#

mgba - mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

ares - ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation.

mame - MAME

pcsx2-rr - PCSX2-rr - The Playstation 2 Emulator with TAS Tools (Now Merged into PCSX2 Core!)

Genesis-Plus-GX - An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator

snes9x - Snes9x - Portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System (TM) emulator

sm64ex - Fork of https://github.com/sm64-port/sm64-port with additional features.

Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++

citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator

Mesen-SX - Homebrew development oriented fork of Mesen-S - a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) SNES emulator built in C++ and C#. Deprecated; see https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2/