Mesen Community Edition est un émulateur multi‑systèmes open‑source pour Windows, Linux et macOS, développé par la communauté à partir du projet Mesen2. Il vise une haute précision, une excellente compatibilité, et propose une interface moderne accompagnée d’outils avancés pour les joueurs comme pour les développeurs.
Né initialement comme un fork pour pallier la mise en pause du développement de Mesen2 par son créateur original (Sour), MesenCE est désormais devenu la continuation officielle et exclusive du projet. Face à la dynamique communautaire, Sour a choisi de rejoindre activement l’équipe de MesenCE afin d’y centraliser tout le développement futur. Cette transition sous un modèle entièrement géré par la communauté permet d’intégrer plus rapidement les correctifs, d’améliorer la compatibilité multiplateforme et d’ajouter de nouvelles fonctionnalités, tout en préservant l’esprit d’excellence du projet d’origine.
Les changements:
Mesen is becoming MesenCE, a Community Edition maintained by Sour and various community members. All development will occur in this new fork going forward so it can continue whenever Sour is away from the project.
There are about 150 changes in total. Highlights include:
– Debugger: Fixed step-back crash
– GB: Added Link cable support for two GB or GBC consoles
– GB: Added Game Boy model selection option for best model a game explicitly supports
– GBA: Fixed RTC during daylight saving time
– NES: Fixed EPSM misbehaving on reset
– NES: Additional Rainbow mapper feature support
– NES: Improved CPU/APU/PPU accuracy (passes 11 more AccuracyCoin tests)
– NES: Improved PAL emulation accuracy
– NES: Improved Famicom Disk System accuracy
– SNES: Added SPC dumper tool under Tools menu
– SNES: Improved MSU-1 support and fixed audio popping
– SNES: Improved SNES offsets-per-tile accuracy
– SNES: Improved SNES rumble controller support
– SNES: Added Turbo File Twin support
– SNES/NES: Added NTT Data Keypad support
– PCE: Improved ISO handling and WAV playback
– WS: Added Pocket Challenge V2 support
– Debugging tools: Improved Memory Viewer performance on Linux
– Movies: Fixed problems with input movie sync, particularly from the History Viewer
– Debugger: Fixed step-back crash
– GB: Added Link cable support for two GB or GBC consoles
– GB: Added Game Boy model selection option for best model a game explicitly supports
– GBA: Fixed RTC during daylight saving time
– NES: Fixed EPSM misbehaving on reset
– NES: Additional Rainbow mapper feature support
– NES: Improved CPU/APU/PPU accuracy (passes 11 more AccuracyCoin tests)
– NES: Improved PAL emulation accuracy
– NES: Improved Famicom Disk System accuracy
– SNES: Added SPC dumper tool under Tools menu
– SNES: Improved MSU-1 support and fixed audio popping
– SNES: Improved SNES offsets-per-tile accuracy
– SNES: Improved SNES rumble controller support
– SNES: Added Turbo File Twin support
– SNES/NES: Added NTT Data Keypad support
– PCE: Improved ISO handling and WAV playback
– WS: Added Pocket Challenge V2 support
– Debugging tools: Improved Memory Viewer performance on Linux
– Movies: Fixed problems with input movie sync, particularly from the History Viewer
