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 28 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 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.
Le site c’était arrêté avec la v115 qui devait être la finale ultime et finalement ca continue, les explications plus bas.
Voici les informations depuis la dernière version d’ares:
It is my privilege to release ares v117 today.
Most notably, this release adds Sony PlayStation emulation. Please understand however that this support is new, and compatibility will be low. That said, the base hardware is entirely emulated, including MDEC, SPU, CD-XA, memory card support, etc. It shouldn’t take much effort to raise the compatibility to a respectable level in the future. And thanks to dynamic recompilation and multi-threading, it should run at full-speed even on modest hardware. ares can run games in either ISO/CUE or BIN/CUE format, as split/WAV files or as a single merged BIN file.
As for the Nintendo 64, Themaister has ported Parallel-RDP to it, and it too is now capable of running commercial games at full-speed, with accuracy just shy of Cen64. However, the support is too new and untested to release at this time, and memory card support has not been added yet. Nintendo 64 support should ship with the next release instead.
Beyond this, there are six months of emulation improvements: many new Famicom mappers were added, several Master System and Game Boy Advance emulation bugs were fixed, etc. Also, a second virtual gamepad has been added for multi-player support.
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Thus, going forward, higan will be compiled with the complex GUI in the accuracy profile; and ares will be compiled with the simplified GUI in the performance profile, and with the additional N64 and PS1 cores made available. Each will be substantially different enough to warrant being separate projects.
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Note: if you post this news elsewhere or are commenting on it, please refer to me only as Near, I would greatly appreciate that. If you’re here wondering if ares development has resumed, the short answer is yes, but please read this post for more information.
Un miroir sur github est disponible ici.
Télécharger Ares (32 bits) v114 (3.3 Mo)
