HIGAN(6)

NAME
higan - multi-system console emulator

SYNOPSIS

higan [--fullscreen] [GAME [SUBGAME1 [SUBGAME2]]]

DESCRIPTION

When launched with --fullscreen, higan will automatically enter fullscreen mode when it starts, otherwise it starts in windowed mode. This is not much use unless you also specify GAME, because you won't be able to load a game until you exit fullscreen mode by pressing the "Toggle Fullscreen" hotkey.

When GAME is not given, higan starts with no game loaded.

When GAME is the path to an existing game folder for any supported console, that game will automatically be loaded after higan starts.

When GAME is the path to a ROM file for any supported console, it will be imported into a game folder in the Game Library, and loaded from there after higan starts.

When GAME is of the form REGION|PATH (that is, a region code, a vertical bar (|), and a path to a game folder or ROM file) higan will load the game at PATH into the REGION variant of the appropriate console, rather than detecting which variant the game expects. This is the command-line equivalent of choosing a region from the drop-down in the bottom-right of the filesystem browser window when you load a game from the game library. The list of region codes differs from console to console, so load a game from the library and check the list before loading it from the command-line.

When GAME refers to a game with a Satellaview memory pak slot, SUBGAME1 should be the path to a game folder or ROM file representing the memory pak to insert into the slot. If SUBGAME1 is not supplied, higan will prompt for one. SUBGAME2 is ignored.

When GAME refers to the Super Game Boy or Super Game Boy 2, SUBGAME1 should be the path to a game folder or ROM file representing a Game Boy game to insert into the slot. If SUBGAME1 is not supplied, higan will prompt for one. SUBGAME2 is ignored.

When GAME refers to the Sufami Turbo, then SUBGAME1 should be the path to a game folder or ROM file representing the mini-cartridge to be inserted into slot A of the Sufami Turbo base cartridge, and SUBGAME2 is the same thing for slot B. higan will prompt for any mini-cartridges not supplied on the command-line.

When GAME refers to any other game, both SUBGAME1 and SUBGAME2 are ignored.

EXAMPLES

Play a previously-imported copy of Super Mario World in fullscreen (assuming Linux defaults): higan --fullscreen "$HOME/Emulation/Super Famicom/Super Mario World.sfc"

Play a previously-imported copy of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, forcing higan to emulate a Japanese Mega Drive: higan "NTSC-J|$HOME/Emulation/Mega Drive/Sonic the Hedgehog 3.md"

AUTHORS

higan was written by byuu.

This man page created for the SlackBuilds.org project by B. Watson, by copying and reformatting higan-cli.md from upstream's git.

SEE ALSO

icarus(6)

The higan homepage: https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/

Full documentation: https://higan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/