Near higan bsnes emulators died code#

They were a colossal force in emulation and will be missed.

Not beating around the bush, the written document recounts at the start how the famous emulator author took their lives. In it are information detailing the events leading to the suicide. Seems like their death was related to relentless targeted harassment and mental health issues which is sad and unfortunate. As per tweet by prominent hacker and security consultant, Martin Hector, a document was shown citing Near’s friend’s account of they’s death. Their code was even used with/by Stephen Hawking in an effort to preserve his voice after passing. As I said previously, if you use emulators for Nintendo/Sega/etc, you're almost certainly running this person’s code. Emulation for the SNES is robust, with several high quality emulators for various systems, with some even being cycle accurate. In Japan, it was known as the Super Famicom. They also helped and contributed to countless other (even competing) projects just to further the state of emulation. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) is a 16-bit, 4th generation console released on 1990 in North America. That alone is wild and unheard of in the emulation scene, but they ended up developing the same ideas for just about every other console/handheld from the 8-16bit era with Higan and later Ares. They started off with a goal to completely reverse engineer the SNES down to the clock cycle and eventually succeeded, minus some negligible weirdness with the sound chip. Chances are if you use an emulator to play retro games, you're running some of their code. The highly respected developer known as Near, creator of emulators like bsnes, higan and more has died. The emulation and fan localization communities are seeing an outpouring of memorials and grief today after the reported death of Near, who was the force behind. At this time, bsnes was forked from higan, and the additional emulation cores were removed.

Near higan bsnes emulators died code#

'Near' is the author behind the popular (and super notably cycle accurate) Bsnes/Higan/Ares emulators and contributed code to just about every modern emulator covering the 8-16 bit era. higan continued development as a multi-system emulator up until May 17th, 2018 when a bsnes revival project was announced, with the stated goal of creating a standalone SNES emulator that went back to bsnes 2004 roots.

I'm not sure where to post this, but I feel like it's pretty significant.