Near, MSU1 Inventor has Passed Away

Today is most likely the saddest day ever the emulation community is going through.

Near, who was known by creating the bsnes, higan and ares emulators, has passed away, and left a legacy of very much sucess to emulation as a whole.

Not only they created the MSU1 specification, for which a big chunk of this site has worked on, but they opened way to improve retro emulation for varying media types, including the MiSTer SNES core (initially pretty much a port of the bsnes source code), research and development for Ikari and kevin to create their FPGA solutions, decapping of all SNES enhancements chips for cycle-accurate emulation, and much, much more.

I'm very thankful for all their work put into it. Hopefully, we are all honoring Near's passion and love that went with all the contributions made to the emulation community.

Thank you for everything, Near. Rest In Peace.

I just read from a friend on twitter about what all went down. Its so very sad. :-(

RIP Near/byuu. I am grateful that you took the time to answer my SNES Questions. Thanks.

That really hurt to read about. Nintendo Life has a good coverage of the story. I really hope everyone reads it and does their part to stop cyber bullying, it is messed up the bullying Near got after doing so much for the rom hacking community.

RIP, we sure going to miss you.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/the_dev_behind_one_of_the_worlds_best_snes_emulators_has_taken_their_own_life

Rip Near and thank you very much for the work provided for the super nintendo

A very sad news..
My thoughts are with the family of Near.

This is sad.

This doesn't make any sense. This person was obviously appreciated by the retro community and obviously make very important contributions.

So I don't see any logical reasoning behind this and I'm sure there could have been a better outcome.

What a tragedy, maybe another victim of the sexual/social/etc lunacy of todays world? I heard some people calling him "they"? Crazy lunatics.

Near liked people to be honest with him, I cannot understand how such a person would committ such an act as suicide, if he was the way he was.

Not only that but he was a perfectionist, who poisoned his mind? I would've loved meeting him in person, if I had told him my story, he would've seen things differently.

Be good to yourselves! And yes, some "ego" is good. This is just not right.

Rest in peace and thank you very much to have made the MSU-1

Bulliying is really bad, it must be stopped that nobody is gonna be depressed and not thinking of suicidal again.
We don't want that other People kill them self’s because of other People bullying them on the Internet.