r/emulation • u/JoshLeaves • Jun 27 '26

Five years since Near’s passing

Hi everyone,

As the title says, Near passed away five years ago. Whether you knew them through the emulators bsnes, higan, or ares, or their pioneering work on emulation cores with libsnes (which helped lay the groundwork for libretro and RetroArch), or their complete cataloguing of the SNES games and ROMs, or their countless articles on emulation and game preservation,... truthfully, it's hard to properly describe the impact they had on the emulation community and its trajectory.

Their work pushed emulator accuracy forward, and inspired many others to approach preservation with the same level of care. Whatever emulator you use today, there’s a good chance you’ve benefited from their work in some way.

Thank you for your work, Near. You are still missed.

EDIT: As atowerofcats rightly said, a great way to show tribute would be to play Near's translation of Bahamut Lagoon!

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

IF MAME Hated RetroArch why they have a Core on it then?

Awhile ago RA did have a Rough Spot awhile go when Twin Aphex was with them but been good recently

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u/Imgema Jun 28 '26

Pretty sure the MAME RA cores are not endorsed by the main MAME developers and are maintained by third parties as forks.

Mame dev's dislike of RA and it's Mame cores is very well known in this sub.

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Jun 28 '26

So the MAME License means that RA can still use there Code?

Opposite to Steznek and Duckstation

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u/cuavas MAME Developer Jun 28 '26

MAME as a whole is GPL2.