Install Instructions - ares-emulator/ares GitHub Wiki

This page contains install instructions for all supported platforms. For instructions on building ares from source, see the Build Instructions page.

Table of Contents

Windows

Direct Download

  1. Download the latest version of ares from either the official website or the project's GitHub Releases page.
  2. Extract the downloaded .zip archive to your preferred installation location.
  3. To run ares, launch ares.exe.

Windows Package Manager (winget)

ares is unofficially available as a package on winget maintained by an external contributor. To install it:

  1. Open the Windows Terminal app (for example, click on the Start menu, type wt, and press Enter).
  2. Enter winget install --id ares-emulator.ares in the Terminal app.
  3. To run ares, enter ares in the Terminal (you may need to close and re-open the Terminal app first).

macOS

  1. Download the latest version of ares from either the official website or the project's GitHub Releases page. Select the macos-universal.zip version.
  2. Double click the .zip archive to decompress it.
  3. Drag ares.app to the Applications folder.
  4. Double click ares.app to launch ares.

Linux

ares will generally run on any Linux system, as long as OpenGL is supported and at least one of ares's audio and input drivers are supported. Use of the N64 core requires your system to have a Vulkan driver.

ares installation depends on your distribution and package manager. The ares team does not directly maintain any Linux packages at this time, but there are builds available via several unofficial channels:

If ares is not available directly on your platform, you may compile it from source. See the Linux Build Instructions page for more information.

FreeBSD

Install the community port of ares:

pkg install ares