![]() They were a colossal force in emulation and will be missed. Seems like their death was related to relentless targeted harassment and mental health issues which is sad and unfortunate. Their code was even used with/by Stephen Hawking in an effort to preserve his voice after passing. Near posted a thread on Twitter explaining how they were affected by a campaign of harassment organized against them on the Kiwi Farms forum. As I said previously, if you use emulators for Nintendo/Sega/etc, you're almost certainly running this person’s code. Near / Byuu Suicide refers to the event on June 28th, 2021, where it was said that the BSNES emulator creator, known as Byuu or Near online, took their own. 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. They also helped and contributed to countless other (even competing) projects just to further the state of emulation. That alone is wild and unheard of in the emulation scene, but they ended up developing the same ideas for just about every other console/handheld from the 8-16bit era with Higan and later Ares. They started off with a goal to completely reverse engineer the SNES down to the clock cycle and eventually succeeded, minus some negligible weirdness with the sound chip. Chances are if you use an emulator to play retro games, you're running some of their code. Not beating around the bush, the written document recounts at the start how the famous emulator author took their lives. ![]() In it are information detailing the events leading to the suicide. Contents hide 1 higan 1.1 higan notable features 2 bsnes 3 SNES9X 4 Mednafen higan Higan is a free, open source emulator capable of running games from multiple consoles, including the SNES, with great accuracy. 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. ![]() "Near" is the author behind the popular (and super notably cycle accurate) Bsnes/Higan/Ares emulators and contributed code to just about every modern emulator covering the 8-16 bit era. As per tweet by prominent hacker and security consultant, Martin Hector, a document was shown citing Near’s friend’s account of they’s death. We do not endorse piracy in any possible way. The linked document also focuses on the Kiwi Farms forum and the doxing and harassing of Near and their friends. I'm not sure where to post this, but I feel like it's pretty significant. ![]()
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