Mesen Community Edition
Mesen is a multi-system emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It supports NES, SNES, Game Boy (GB/SGB/GBC), Game Boy Advance, PC Engine, SMS/Game Gear, and WonderSwan (WS/WSC).
This is a community-managed fork, created to maintain and expand this emulator into the future.
Releases
The latest stable version is available from the releases page on GitHub.
Development Builds
- Windows
- Windows 7 or higher is required. Windows 7 users must use SP1 and have all updates installed.
- Linux x64 (requires SDL2)
- Linux ARM64 (requires SDL2)
- macOS - Intel (requires SDL2)
- macOS - Apple Silicon (requires SDL2)
Notes
- Other builds are also available in the Actions tab.
- macOS: Builds are self-signed and will require approval via Gatekeeper before they are able to be run.
- SteamOS: See SteamOS.md
Compiling
See COMPILING.md
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md
License
Mesen is available under the GPL V3 license. Full text here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
Copyright (C) 2014-2026 Sour, 2026 contributors
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.