Parts of the emulator created to keep Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer working in the final years of the famous physicist's life were even borrowed from higan's open source code. We learned a sad news this week, Near is the author of bsnes, higan, ares, libco and is at the origin of retroarch among other things. If you've played any of the indie games influenced by EarthBound, aka Mother 2, then odds are good that game's designer had a copy of EarthBound open in higan for reference. Near's bsnes was the first Super Nintendo emulator with 100% compatibility, and higan is a multi-system emulator supporting 26 different devices including the NES, SNES, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, Sega Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive, and PC Engine. The linked document also focuses on the Kiwi Farms forum and the doxing and harassing of Near and their friends. ![]() Presumably they got Nears real name from the friend and took it to the police. PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES. The Twitter thread says they spoke to a mutual friend and the police. Suicide is so simple Edit: had no idea who those KF guys were. You blame some nazis forum, I’ll blame Japan. The author of bsnes and higan, Near consistently pushed emulations state of the art. Subsequently, Hector Martin, an IT consultant and Linux hacker, posted a message about Near from a mutual friend (CW: contains explicit details of Near's method of suicide) and said that they had confirmed Near's death with police in a follow-up tweet. Near, also known by their username Byuu, the creator of several groundbreaking videogame emulators and a recent celebrated translation of JRPG Bahamut Lagoon, has died by suicide.Near posted a thread. The Brilliant SNES Emulator Author Known As Near Has Died. Near posted a thread on Twitter explaining how they were affected by a campaign of harassment organized against them on the Kiwi Farms forum. Nears bsnes was the first Super Nintendo emulator with 100 compatibility, and higan is a multi-system emulator supporting 26 different devices including the NES, SNES, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, Sega Master System and Genesis. Hmmmmmm shares a report from PC Gamer: Near, also known by their username Byuu, the creator of several groundbreaking videogame emulators and a recent celebrated translation of JRPG Bahamut Lagoon, has died by suicide. The linked document also focuses on the Kiwi Farms forum and the doxing and harassing of Near and their friends.
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