Higan

Higan is a multi-system emulator whose main objective is to offer the closest possible experience to playing on an original console. The program is able to perfectly emulate all these systems: NES, Famicom Disk System, Super Nintendo, Super Game Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Player, SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, Mega CD, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, ColecoVision, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal, Pocket Challenge V2.

In total, Higan will allow you to emulate more than a dozen different systems and, even better, it will allow you to do so with maximum fidelity. Unlike other emulators, you will need to download BIOS for all the systems you want to emulate. In addition, you must bear in mind that one of the objectives of the emulator is to offer a faithful experience to the original, so you will not find spectacular image filters or anything like that. You can adjust the resolution and little else.

One of the features that could not go amiss is the savestates. Higan allows you to keep up to five quick saves, which you can access with a single click. Admittedly, this feature was not available on any of the original consoles, but it is incredibly useful and no modern emulator can do without it. The same applies to resolution scaling. Games from the 1990s were not designed to be played on 2K or 4K monitors, but that doesn't mean you can't see them in all their glory on such displays today.

Higan is an excellent multi-system emulator, which will allow you to easily enjoy thousands and thousands of games for more than a dozen different platforms. From the source code of Higan, two other great emulators emerged: BSNES and ARES, both with different features, which perfectly complement this marvel of emulation.