ares
ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation. (by ares-emulator)
Genesis-Plus-GX
An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator (by ekeeke)
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| ares | Genesis-Plus-GX | |
|---|---|---|
| 44 | 11 | |
| 797 | 647 | |
| 6.5% | - | |
| 9.6 | 8.1 | |
| 6 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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.
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.
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NES standalone emulator on Ubuntu 23.10?
ares, takes 2 minutes to compile if it isn't in the app center, or whatever.
- Capcom Town is using Ares (by Near) for Nes and SNes emulation
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Lunar 1 and 2 Un Working Designs questions
ares
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Games are so goddamn boring lately, I need tips!
There's great retro console games you probably missed out. You might want to learn how to use an multi-emulator like Ares however I must warn you in advance, emulation is a legal gray zone, and a licencing hell.
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Anyway for my friend to play Majoras Mask( Mac)
Ares is a multi system emulator which you can use on Mac, it has support for Nintendo 64 games!
- [Mac Gaming] Emulatori con supporto al silicio di Apple.
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BizHawk v2.9 is now released
ares is another option to explore if you're unaware of it - [https://ares-emu.net]
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N64 Audio Issues on iOS Monterey?
Try ares: https://ares-emu.net/
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Bunki, a C Coroutine Library
that one is old and missing aarch64. here's the latest https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/tree/master/libco
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Is there a N64 emulator that has a CRT filter?
ares is a very accurate N64 emulator (similar to simple64) that has built-in shader support including at least 2 different CRT filters
Genesis-Plus-GX
Posts with mentions or reviews of Genesis-Plus-GX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.
- Genesis-Plus-GX Enchancement - per-tile vertical scroll
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Is there a up-to-date Sega Genesis Standalone Emulator?
The Original Genesis Plus GX is Cube, Wii and Libretro only, link to the builds.
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Performance troubleshooting - Sega CD emulation on Gamecube with Genesis Plus GX
Using latest pre-compiled version of Genesis Plus GX found here: https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/tree/master/builds
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Sonic CD on RetroArch Genesis Plus GX after the end of 3rd Zone
I know there's probably not a way to fix this, but I thought I'd post this since it doesn't seem to be reported elsewhere except by this person, who seems to have only had this problem intermittently: https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/209
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Demons of astelborg isn't working
Demons of Astelborg isn't supported by all emulators, Genesis GX plus added support for games that requires over 8MB SRAM: https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/commit/e6ab7563e7cfb4e18c29e557d36e59cc51e83815
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The talk about the NSO stuff has me thinking: What are the best N64/Genesis emulators on PC anyway?
The Titan Overdrive 2 demo runs in BlastEm, but not in GPGX. And BlastEm is still the only software emulator to show CRAM dots.
- How to load Amiga CD32 chd files in PUAE core?
- Discussion of cores made initially for RA/Libretro
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Can someone explain why people hate RetroArch now?
He tried to bully developers into adding clauses that make the licenses more restrictive (https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/111) and at the same actively moved from a no donations , no money involved whatsoever stance to a let's milk every dime we can in behalf of the so called team, when it's actually getting to his pockets, his livelyhood (which wouldn't be bad if he didn't pretend it wasn't)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ares and Genesis-Plus-GX you can also consider the following projects:
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.
m64p - [Moved to: https://github.com/m64p/m64p]
mame - MAME
RMG - Rosalie's Mupen GUI
reicast-emulator - Reicast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator [Moved to: https://github.com/skmp/reicast-emulator]
n64-systemtest - Tests a wide variety of N64 features, from common to hardware quirks. Written in Rust. Executes quickly.
blastem - Upstream tracking repo of BlastEm, the fast and accurate Genesis emulator, with libretro specific changes
OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
simple64 - Accurate N64 Emulator
mupen64plus-ui-python - A frontend for Mupen64Plus