The thinking man's emulator.
>>732361228what does it emulate
>>732361495Everything
>>732362792 Truly. Between cycle-accurate NES, NSF support, and debugger tools so clean they make other emus look like back-alley ROM hacks, Mesen is basically a devkit disguised as an emulator. If your emu doesn’t let you single-step through sprite 0 hit timing, are you even playing NES?
>>732361228ok but does it have a novelty cursor
>>732362792So....everything what
>>732361228>loses hours of progress because it doesn't save SRAM to disk until you close the emulatorInto the trash it goes.
>>732361495NESSNESGame BoyGBATurboGrafx-16Master SystemGame GearWonderSwan
Pretty soulful icon desu
>>732363360op will shit on you for pointing out the glaring flaw but you're right
>>732362792can it emulate switch 2?
ares > mesen
>>732363045It makes NES games HD.
>>732363851How's that even work? Don't all those have different architechtures? Isn't it just multiple emulators under a single UI at that point?
>>732361228Mesen can emulate beyond NES now? That's neat.
>>732361228no shaders no download
>>732364718Yes, what's the problem? The cores are extremely well designed like >>732362947 says they strive for accuracy and extensive tooling. Even better than FCEUX which was the romhacking/TAS standard for years
>>732361228I like Mednafen
>>732361228Sadly the dev went AWOL ever since he started working on a Genesis core.But yes the existing ones are very impressive.
Semen is the NES core I've been using for like 10 years.
>>732364718I'll never get people wanting to have 20 separate emulators in their emulator folders.If there's an emulator that works pretty well for many platforms, why the fuck wouldn't you just use that?
>>732367404The overwhelming amount of emulators make tradeoffs between performance, features, accuracy, etc.You might have one you prefer to run most games, but for the few that won't work on it, you need something higher accuracy, or for the ones that are too demanding you go with a 3rd option, etc.
>>732368090How much more accuracy do you need for NES, SNES and Gameboy?I understand it for newer platforms but it's 2026, don't tell me there's a lot of games that don't run well on these emulators.
