Créé par Near (ex byuu), Ares est un émulateur multi-systèmes dont le développement a commencé le 14 octobre 2004. C’est un descendant de higan et bsnes. Il se concentre sur la précision et la préservation.
 

 
Ares émule les 29 machines suivantes:
 
– Famicom + Famicom Disk System
– Super Famicom + Super Game Boy
– Nintendo 64
– Game Boy + Game Boy Color
– Game Boy Advance + Game Boy Player
– SG-1000 + SC-3000
– Master System + Game Gear
– Mega Drive + Mega 32X + Mega CD
– Playstation
– PC Engine + PC Engine CD + SuperGrafx
– MSX + MSX2
– ColecoVision
– Neo Geo Pocket + Neo Geo Pocket Color
– WonderSwan + WonderSwan Color + SwanCrystal + Pocket Challenge V2
 

A noter qu’un pack de shaders est disponible ici.
Des packs MSU-1 sont disponibles ici.

 
Voici les informations depuis la dernière version d’ares:
 

Unfortunately a few critical issues crept in between v118 and v119, so here is a bugfix release for all reported issues. It also fixes some game bugs while I’m at it, and boosts 32X compatibility from 50% to a little over 60%. Please do upgrade if you have v119, this one’s important.
 

– SH2: MAC must increment R[n] before reading from R[m]; fixes Virtua Fighter and Toughman Contest
– SH2: fixed dynarec MOV @Rm+,Rn to not increment when Rm==Rn
– SH2: fixed dynarec TST instruction
– SH2: improved dynarec accuracy by breaking blocks on delay slot branches
– SH2: improved dynarec accuracy by decreasing the underclocking amount
– Mega Drive: implemented undocumented VSRAM and CRAM DMA fill
– Mega Drive: simplified scanline VDP renderer; fixes TMNT: Tournament Fighters graphics
– Mega Drive: improved region detection; correctly identifies Alien Soldier region now
– Mega CD: fixed crash on game load
– Super Famicom: fixed direct color mode; fixes Secret of Mana world map
– WonderSwan Color: fixed initial state for new EEPROMs plus EEPROM size; fixes missing sound
– lucia: fixed saving RAM files when a manual save path was specified
– ruby: fixed library dependency detection for Arch Linux and other distributions
– hiro/GTK3: added CSS stylesheet overrides to improve appearance [Screwtape]

 

Télécharger Ares (32 bits) v114 (3.3 Mo)

Télécharger Ares (64 bits) v136 (6.8 Mo)

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