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In addition to their work on bsnes, Near also documented their relentless reverse engineering escapades on the bboard, along with their efforts to understand the entirety of as many facets of software development as they could, top to bottom. As we all know, Near was extremely prolific, driven in their pursuit of perfection, and generous enough to share their many accomplishments with the world at large. That forum was the old bboard, and that emu author was, of course, Near. The author of the emu had a forum where they posted their releases and all the cool stuff they were working on, and that forum was home to a tight community of other smart, creative folks. Recognize that we speak from the heart and that our purpose in doing this is to pay proper respect and tribute to a great programmer in the emulation scene, the likes of whom we might never get again.Ībout 15 years ago, I was just getting into open-source software and the Super Nintendo was always my favorite console, so I was excited to find a relatively new open-source emulator that ran even the weird, unpopular games. We asked three people familiar with Near to provide their own eulogy. We feel this right now is more important and should get front and center coverage. You won’t be seeing us doing any promotional material or coverage for it until then, and who knows, we might even skip going into it at all.

BSNES DEVELOPER FULL

Out of respect for Near’s untimely passing, we have delayed the release of the next RetroArch by a full week. While we feel Near needs no introduction, we feel it is only right to let people know of the extent to which Near’s work laid the foundational framework of Libretro/RetroArch, and what other great projects they worked on, including of course bsnes (which needs no introduction at this point).Īmong Near’s other great accomplishments: libsnes (which later turned into our fork, libretro), libco (a cooperative multi-threading library), Higan (a multi-system emulator), Ares, and various other auxiliary projects. Last Sunday a tragedy befell the emulation community, when Near tragically took their own life.

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