higan is good for prototyping a snes game you're developing when you don't have a flashcart yet, right?
@Felthry i was aware of its accuracy, i just was wondering if there was some kind of pitfall that would make it unsuitable for using as a development target
@typhlosion I'd like to recommend https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen-S/releases for being a pretty accurate SNES emulator that actually has extensive debugging tools.
@typhlosion [source: doing SNES demo stuff]
higan is really accurate (not 100%, but you have to be doing *really* tricky stuff to get it to fail), but it's also not very UX-friendly. bsnes is basically the SNES core of higan, but standalone, and it's much easier to use to check whether something works quickly.
Also, there's a fork of bsnes called bsnes-plus (maintained by @revenant ) with extra debugging features, as well as mesen-s, a standalone (and windows-only but I did get it to work on linux... barely), with even more debugging stuff, so those can come in handy as well
@typhlosion also if you're looking for a flashcart, get an SD2SNES and not a Super Everdrive. (they're working on the new version of the SD2SNES iirc, so better wait for that?)
@pcy what's the difference between the SD2SNES and the super everdrive? is one of those the one that purports to emulate all the different on-cartridge coprocessors with fpgas and whatnot?
@typhlosion I don't know (I only have a Super Everdrive with a DSP1... well technically it's neomans but it's sitting in my room, so, ...), but in my experience the SD2SNES is able to boot more (homebrew) ROMs than the Super Everdrive, though it's usually for edgecases like https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=70163 and https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83692
@pcy @typhlosion those roms both suck though so it's nbd
@pcy @revenant i actually like the higan interface =w=
last night i was actually testing stuff out with byuu, the new thing near has been putting together. works pretty nicely. i guess i should probably just grab bsnes-plus though since it's largely the same accuracy profile and im gonna be doing debugging stuff
@typhlosion well yeah, it's nice in some aspects, but for a quick "look at thing in emulator -> tweak code -> recompile -> look at new thing in emulator" prototyping loop, it's really annoying.
@pcy yeah for sure, i get that
@typhlosion higan is supposed to be super-accurate yeah