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https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares
Multi-system emulator; seems to have relatively advanced NGPC emulation--can run Dokodemo Mahjong Color (see entry 397) in color, for instance--but requires NGPC BIOS file.
Lead Dev "Near" used to go by Japanese character for name; most active current dev LukeUsher IDs as UK-based. |
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| | | | Near info was from https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Ares |
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| | | | Successor to creator Near's higan (see entry 1567). |
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| | | | Unlike Mednafen (see entry 1537) and Mesen (see entry 1536), ares can load PC Engine CD games from compressed .chd files; this means it's gonna be my go-to PCE emulator. |
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| | | Requires a GBA BIOS! Dang.
It doesn't require a BIOS for like NES, SNES, MD, and non-A GB.
ares is currently highly rated for SNES emulation ( https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Super_Nintendo_emulators#Comparisons ); not so high for NES or GB (but my current GB emu, Mesen, isn't highly rated for THAT, either; Mesen IS highly rated for NES, and pretty well-rated for SNES). |
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| | | I'm going to use ares for SNES emulation--it's better than Mesen at cropping border areas, at least in Mr. Do, the game I compared in ares and Mesen.
It doesn't have Mesen's per-color palette control for GB and border control for NES (which is a huge but NESessary pain as NES games vary wildly in their bordering, and flashing border areas), so Mesen's still the one for those. |
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| | | | Dang, while ares is good about NOT having borders around SNES games, it DOES have borders around PC Engine games--unlike Mednafen's PCE emulation. So I guess it's back to uncompressed bins and cues for me. : P There probably aren't more than a handful--if that--of Super CD games I'll be sticking to though so no biggie I guess. |
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| | | | (The 3 PCE rips I have currently--DDII, Gate of Thunder 3-in-1, Riot Zone--are 939 MB as .chd files, and 1.47 GB as bin/cue. I'm not sure ImgBurn ripped them as these single bin files they're in now, or if that happened from converting them back and forth with CHDMAN; handy that they're only one .bin file each, at any rate.) |
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| | | | Comparing Mednafen and ares in Shadow Dancer (Gen), the colors are brighter but maybe a tad too bright? with ares; ares also crops the picture slightly for some reason. |
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| | | | Ares I think just recently added a ton of shaders. Ones I like are misc--retro-palettes and vhs--VHSPro. (There's a ReShade version--see entry 1851--of VHSPro.) |
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| | | | ^ Specifically, I like those shaders for Mr. Do. ^ _^ |
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| | | | Shadow flicker is super bad in ares in Super Fire Pro X Premium--would have to use Mesen for that. |
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| | | | In Settings - Options there's a "Run-Ahead" option that says "Removes one frame of input lag, but doubles system requirements." Seems fine for Mr. Do (see entry 1552). ^ _^ |
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| | | | Ares is doing some kind of exclusive full-screen thing now--I mean, I can't task-switch out of it when it's full-screen. Bleh. Back to Mesen. |
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