#NEAR BSNES UPDATE#
#NEAR BSNES FULL#
#NEAR BSNES PORTABLE#

The only obvious motivation that I could piece together is that Near was transgender, non-binary, autistic, and might have spoken out against Donald Trump or something to that effect.

#NEAR BSNES FULL#

If you’re wondering at all what Near could possible have done to deserve the abuse, you won’t find anything other than some drama levelled against them by Kiwifarms users, not that you could get the full story easily since Kiwifarms got DDOS’d for causing Near’s suicide while either gloating about their suicide or denying it ever happened. After a ceaseless stream of harassment from KiwiFarms users who were trying to bully them and their friends out of public life, Near posted a thread on Twitter announcing their intention to commit suicide, and according to a friend of a friend of Near they overdosed on codeine and guanfancine before hanging themselves. That at least is how I know them, and from what I can see many others have only just found out that it was Near who made their emulator experiences possible. So on some token, they’re responsible for my getting the chance to play the original two SMT games. Although I had no idea who Near was before, I remember playing Shin Megami Tensei using the bSnes emulator, and its sequel using one of the emulators they made. Want to help ensure Near's legacy survives? Then make sure that at the very least everyone knows about this release.So yesterday I had become aware of the tragic news about the suicide of Near, who I had never heard of until today but was the inventor of several emulators, notably bSnes and Higan. Most open source emus are best gotten by nightly updates than stable anyway these days. Bsnes-HD is a fork of this version of Bsnes, by the way.Īnyway, Bsnes and its forks have been chugging along this entire time without Near.

Near tried to mention this but not even the name change got through to people very well. I mentioned that in the previous thread, but that might've been cut by a mod. The site was nuked at the same time IIRC. It was because they wanted to leave the emulation development crowd afterwards (that didn't happen, obviously). Or at least that's my interpretation of it all.īyuu/Near hadn't owned bsnes since the name change to Near, ever since then it was turned into a community project after it was deemed 'finished' to the point that not much really needed to be done to it (note: I am paraphrasing, there were a lot of paragraphs one year ago and you should attempt to find Near's article about it). Retroarch and bizhawk utilize cores in this way to allow for individual development outside of their ecosystem that they can then bring in to their software.

#NEAR BSNES PORTABLE#

A bit hard to follow, I realize haha.Īs for Retroarch, well those are just the core engines that power BSNES, Higan, etc that are in a portable form that can be used for multiple programs. The descendant of both of those is Ares, which was similar to Higan but was a closed source project, with Near backporting improvements to Higan as time went along. With BSNES allowing for more loosely controlled additions and Higans core focus being accuracy first and foremost (at least my interpretation of that). BSNES and Higan were both rolled into community open source projects. Higan was the successor to that, which was becoming a multi console emulator aimed at low level accuracy.

BSNES was the original emulator, but was eventually turned into a community project to allow for quality of life changes and interesting concepts (such as HD mode 7 graphics). Jorpho, both emulators were originally created by Near(Byuu) with the focus of accurate low level SNES emulation. They've been providing the primary updates to the project in recent months if the github commits are anything to go off of.

#NEAR BSNES UPDATE#

Screwtapello commited the readme update to the github 4 days ago. It looks like the nightly build autogenerated because the readme was updated to point to the community discord since v can't be updated. As far as I know, Near turned bsnes into a community project a while back when focus was put into other areas (Higan, Ares, etc.)

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