#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).
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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.
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#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. You'll have to file abuse complaints with Cloudflare, ARIN (they allocate IPs) and if you can, the datacenter 1776Hosting uses.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.) There's no way to deplatform them from that angle. It's by 1776Hosting, which is run by Joshua Moon, the Kiwifarms admin. This is why the world needs better mental health treatment.įor those trying to "deplatform" kiwifarms, it's not ran by Dreamhost. For a vulnerable person like Byuu/Near, having a thread exposing everything about you and your hobbies and relentlessly targeting you absolutely is a terrible thing. The internet has become a place where people who are socially isolated are emotionally dependent on the approval of others. I believe you can and should consider KF illegal under harassment statutes.) this is a consequence of, well, what basically constitutes harassment.
#Near bsnes for free
It's tragic, and while I'm an advocate for free speech ( FYI, don't take this out of context. It appears Byuu/Near was targeted for being a furry (it's in their Animal Control subforum) and for identifying as NB. It grew out of the community that surrounds "Chris Chan" (Christine Weston Chandler, the creator of Sonichu) and it just spiraled out from there. is a website that basically centers around documenting eccentric, crazy, creepy or predatorial individuals. BSNES was always viewed as "great emulator, but the author is a bit of a weirdo." Their actions were never really that egregious, the offenses taken by other were always overblown and inflated. The big takeaway is that most of Byuu/Near's "crimes" are just your everyday internet drama that takes place in every online community. There are couple of self-reflecting posts they made in this time talking about their change in perspective and trying to be more of a team player. Collaboration with others became common, and they were now open to the suggestions from the community. In the last few years, they opened up and become a much more pleasant person. A classic case of the grumpy rock-star programmer that people tolerate because they're good at what they do.Īll this being said, this was the "old" Byuu/Near.
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Instead he offered file hashes that others could compare to. One last side incident was that he ran a project to dump properly formatted ROM's, but didn't release copies of them to the emulation community. Of course, another hardware hacker was able to solve this "impossible" problem. They went on a rant how a certain chip would never be successfully emulated, because if they couldn't do it, no one could. Byuu/Near was very hostile towards people who requested that his emulators be updated to be more user friendly. NOTE: What is written below is not criticism of Byuu/Near, but trying to explain the source of vitriol against them.Ī little context that is being glossed over is that Byuu/Near in years past was viewed as a bit of an elitist / asshole.