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Mesen

Mesen is an NES/Famicom emulator with tools for inspecting game execution and graphics. Version 0.9.9 documents a debugger, trace logger, event viewer, memory tools, PPU viewer, assembler and Lua API; the repository contains the emulator core and tool source.

Targets: Game
Category: Game analysis tools
Relationship: Foundation tool
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 1.3k
Last commit: 2024-12-18
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0
Status: Archived

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Limits: Version 0.9.9 is archived; development on this version stopped in 2020.
License: GPL-3.0 licence.

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BibTeX

@misc{mesen,
  title = {{Mesen}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen}},
  url = {https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mesen/}}
}

Plain text

Mesen. https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mesen/

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Docs/content/_index.md GitHub · SourMesen/Mesen · Revision e118095
README.md GitHub · SourMesen/Mesen · Revision e118095