BizHawk VS ares

Compare BizHawk vs ares 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)

ares

ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation. (by ares-emulator)
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BizHawk ares
37 44
2,002 797
2.3% 6.5%
9.7 9.6
4 days ago 2 days ago
C# C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

ares

Posts with mentions or reviews of ares. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BizHawk and ares you can also consider the following projects:

mgba - mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

m64p - [Moved to: https://github.com/m64p/m64p]

mame - MAME

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

RMG - Rosalie's Mupen GUI

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

n64-systemtest - Tests a wide variety of N64 features, from common to hardware quirks. Written in Rust. Executes quickly.

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

OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS

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/

simple64 - Accurate N64 Emulator