Ares Emulator

About:

Ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation. It is a descendant of higan and bsnes.

Features

• Native multi-platform UI: Using the ‘hiro’ framework, ares looks and behaves like a native application on all supported platforms, using WinAPI (Windows), Cocoa (macOS), GTK2 or GTK3 (posix)
• Dynamic Rate Control: You can now synchronize both audio and video output at the same time, for a smooth experience for those systems that don’t match the host frame-rate.
• Save States: Resume where you left off, even if the game you’re playing does not natively support saving.
• Run-ahead: Reduce input lag and response time by accounting for internal processing delays in the original games, it’s now possible to achieve lower latency than is possible on real-hardware using a CRT!
• Rewind and fast-forward: Speed up and rewind gameplay as you wish; breeze past long cutscenes or recover from your mistakes.
• Pixel Shaders: Apply shader-based filters to enhance your experience; simulate the look of a CRT or smooth out the display, ares ships with a collection of shaders from libretro’s slang-shaders.
• Color Correction: Optionally emulate the display characteristics of the originals systems for an authentic experience. Nostalgic for the washed out colours of the original GBA screen, or playing a game that relies on LCD ghosting? We’ve got you covered.
• Input Multi-Mapping: With Virtual Game-Pads, you only need to configure controls once and it will be automatically adapted to suit each system you emulate.
• Debugger: Simple debug features such as trace logging to aid development of original software for supported systems

Ares is available for Windows x64, Linux, FreeBSD and macOS.

Supported Systems

Systems marked as ‘Experimental’ are supported, but are not yet recommended for everyday use.

• Arcade, Atari 2600 (Experimental)
• WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color
• Pocket Challenge V2
• ColecoVision
• MSX (Experimental), MSX2 (Experimental)
• PC-Engine / TurboGrafx, PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx CD (Experimental)
• PC-Engine SuperGrafx
• My Vision
• NES / Famicom
• Famicom Disk System
• Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance
• SNES / Super Famicom
• Satellaview
• Nintendo 64
• SuFami Turbo
• Nintendo 64DD
• SG-1000
• Master System / Mark III
• Mega Drive / Genesis, Game Gear, Mega CD
• 32X
• ZX Spectrum (Experimental)
• Neo Geo (AES/MVS) (Experimental), Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color
• PlayStation (Experimental)

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