Open Source Nintendo DS Emulator for Android


I don't approve. DS Emulation is a waste of time as we don't have dual displays.


Sure POC is okay but yeah.
 
@ Wally as well as the fact that the DS is still being marketed and games are still being made . Emulation is more than legal ( at least in my country ) so long as you own a phiscal copy of the game . I'm just afraid it might attract unwanted attention as you know emulation isn't always viewed in the best light .
 
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2bit said:
@ Wally as well as the fact that the DS is still being marketed and games are still being made . Emulation is more than legal ( at least in my country ) so long as you own a phiscal copy of the game . I'm just afraid it might attract unwanted attention as you know emulation isn't always viewed in the best light .
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Nope emulation is not any legal unless you OWN and DUMPED the game yourself.


Anyway thats not my objection, its the fact that its less useful than putting a robotic head on a horse.


The point is.. if you want to emulate something thats going to be half as functional as the real thing. You might as well have the real thing.
 
Wally said:
Anyway thats not my objection, its the fact that its less useful than putting a robotic head on a horse.
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Well my robotic horse head is awesome.


However DS emulation is silly.
 
Wally said:
I don't approve. DS Emulation is a waste of time as we don't have dual displays.
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I have to disagree. Letting aside the fact, that either Pandoras Hardware is not powerfull enough or DS emulation has to accomplish a lot more optimisations to suit the Pandoras capabilities, I think DS emulation could be ok even for the Pandora. A lot of games for the DS don't makre real use of the second screen, so one of them could simply be made invisible. But even if not, as notaz build of dsemu "proves" both screens rendered on top of another is ok on the Pandoras screen - not ideal, but ok.
 
Id like to see a DS emulator that rendered both screens on a tablet in portrait orientation. For example it should be possible to show both screens on a Nexus 7, that would be good. Could work the same way on bigger screen smartphones.
 
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Wally said:
2bit said:
@ Wally as well as the fact that the DS is still being marketed and games are still being made . Emulation is more than legal ( at least in my country ) so long as you own a phiscal copy of the game . I'm just afraid it might attract unwanted attention as you know emulation isn't always viewed in the best light .
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Nope emulation is not any legal unless you OWN and DUMPED the game yourself.


Anyway thats not my objection, its the fact that its less useful than putting a robotic head on a horse.


The point is.. if you want to emulate something thats going to be half as functional as the real thing. You might as well have the real thing.
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and even that, if you had to defend a countermeasure to protect the game is illegal in a few countries... now the countermeasure definition vary if you are working in the game industry or not, some even claim that a caridge format is meant to be a countermeasure against copy...

mcobit said:
You still fall for that joke?
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yep, that joke does not work anymore, we found dozen of method to resolve the dual screen problem, ranging from "cutting half of the touchscreen off" to "use an external TV"... we are ready for DS emulation...
 
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An NDS emualtor would have to be written from the ground up with ARM in mind - similar to gpsp. Porting DSEmuMe, or an Android emulator is going to be too inoptimised to give you usable results.


I would LOVE to have a playable DS emulator on Pandora as it would mean one less console to lug around.
 
NDS is a current gen console more or less .. it is more classy not to emulatoe it all over the place (to work on an emu codebase is fine, but personally, I think its a little goofy to wave such emus around; it shows immaturity as an emu community, fostering pirating etc, bolstering the case against emulation as a respectful endeaver.) Back in the day, when emulation was new, we had a 'rule' to not post emus (except to testers) of current gen equipment, but of course, such rules are passe now .. the community is much larger now :)


*shrug*


jeff
 
in other words, skeezix is working on a gamecube and dreamcast emulator
 
I don't want to start a troll here, but I've installed desmume in pandebian, and with a 1Ghz pandora at 1200 Mhz (max proposed by the pandora interface), Professor layton is working at 20FPS (the videos are at 15FPS).


The game is not full speed, but it is playable. It's a fact.


I'm just wondering why everyone here are so upset when someone talk about ds emulator for the pandora saying "it's not possible, forget it". If you just want it, do like me, use pandebian (and play games that are not full of action ;p)
 
I'd like to see a video of that..


but for most 600 MHz pandoras games run at 2-4 fps.

DaMummy said:
in other words, skeezix is working on a gamecube and dreamcast emulator
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I'm working on a PS4 emulator.. hope to get it out by Christmas... get it out before Sony even release the console.
 
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Hopefully there's only one screen on the OP, otherwise, the FPS woulda have been divided by two.
 
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