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Install Mesen in Arch Linux

Shenzhen, China

Emulation

Mesen is a high-accuracy NES emulator for Windows and Linux. It offers numerous features, such as save states, video filters, netplay, rewinding, overclocking, cheat codes and HD packs.

Mesen-S is a high-accuracy SNES emulator for Windows and Linux. Game Boy and Game Boy Color games are also supported, along with Super Game Boy emulation.

Installing dependencies

pacman -Syu
pacman -S mono mono-msbuild sdl2 clang gendesk zip

Installing Mesen

Start by downloading and upacking a snapshot from the Arch Linux Repository:

wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/mesen.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mesen.tar.gz && cd mesen

Run the following command to execute the PKGBUILD script:

makepkg

Now install the build package with Pacman:

sudo pacman -U mesen-0.9.9-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Installing Mesen

Start by downloading and upacking a snapshot from the Arch Linux Repository:

wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/mesen-s.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mesen-s.tar.gz && cd mesen-s

Run the following command to execute the PKGBUILD script:

makepkg

Now install the build package with Pacman:

sudo pacman -U mesen-s-0.4.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst