Créé par Near (ex byuu) et continué par Luke Usher (PolyBlast / CxBx-Reloaded) et d’autres, 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 34 machines suivantes:
– Atari 2600
– Famicom + Famicom Disk System
– Super Famicom / SuFami Turbo / Satellaview / Super Game Boy
– Nintendo 64/64DD + SETA Aleck64 (arcade)
– Game Boy + Game Boy Color
– Game Boy Advance + Game Boy Player
– SG-1000 (+ Arcade version) + SC-3000
– Master System + Game Gear
– Mega Drive + Mega 32X + Mega CD
– Nichibutsu – My Vision
– Playstation
– PC Engine + PC Engine CD + SuperGrafx
– MSX + MSX2
– ColecoVision
– Neo Geo Pocket + Neo Geo Pocket Color
– Neo Geo AES / MVS
– Sinclair Zx Spectrum
– 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:
While this is an unusually quick release cycle, there was an issue that unfortunately made it into the last release that we feel needed a priority fix: This version fixes a regression that caused Super Game Boy, and other add-on carts for the Super Famicom/SNES to not load properly.
Important notes:
Distributors: The legacy build system is now gone, this release can only be compiled using CMake
MacOS: The minimum macOS system requirements have increased to 10.15 (Catalina)
Game Boy: The save data path for « Game Boy Color » has changed: existing users using a custom save game path will have to manually move their saves from « Game Boy Color » to « Game Boy ». Users using the default « Save alongside rom files » will not have to take any action.
Since v142, 8 contributors have created 42 commits to the ares codebase.
As always, if you wish to see the full changelog in a per-commit format along with their authors, you can do so on GitHub here.
Nintendo – Game Boy / Game Boy Color
– Use « Game Boy » save path for both GB and GBC, fixing using the same rom file on both GB and GBC hardware without losing save-data between them, and fixing Pokemon Stadium when loading a .gbc rom (the Transfer Pak only used the GB path)
Nintendo – Game Boy Advance
– Improve timings when running multiple DMA channels at once.
– Fix a timing bug when accessing the cartridge backup region.
Nintendo – Nintendo 64 / 64DD
– Fix Joybus RTC read/write status byte
– Don’t report interrupt exceptions to GDB, improving performance while debugging.
Sega – Mega Drive / CD / 32X
– 32X: Fix a timing issue that could cause some operations to update the ares internal timers twice.
– 32X: Fix an issue where audio would fail to work correctly after restoring a saved state.
– 32X: Fix layer blending when the MD VDP is in H32 mode.
– 32X: Proper 32X region header processing for licensed games.
– 32X: Fix SH2 framebuffer mirroring.
– 32X: Improve emulation of FEN/PEN flags.
– 32X: Improve emulation of ‘FM’ bit and relate stalls.
– 32X: VDP register latches have been implemented, but may still be imperfect.
– 32X: Implement VDP auto fill timing.
Other
Build
– Add librashader headers to the source tree under thirdparty/librashader/include/, so that remotely fetched resources are no longer required to build ares on Linux.
User Interface
– Fix an issue where saved games would be placed in incorrect paths if a custom Saves path was set on macOS.
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