Android Full Speed NDS Emulator Coming to Android!!!

[GameWinner]

Suddenly, the android just got even more attractive.

 

[Zerousen]

Sony needs to make a new Xperia Play ASAP.

 

[LightyKD]

Sony needs to make a new Xperia Play ASAP.

ZOMG! You are so right! I always thought that the Xperia play was an awesome product. Hell, I still want one! Sony dropped the ball when they decided to just give up on the device.

 

[Zerousen]

ZOMG! You are so right! I always thought that the Xperia play was an awesome product. Hell, I still want one! Sony dropped the ball when they decided to just give up on the device.

It's a good thing Sony has been nice to the developers, the guys over at XDA seem to be doing just fine with the Xperia Play ATM. The only reason why I haven't picked one up myself is because I'm still hoping Sony has plans for a Play 2

 

[LightyKD]

It's a good thing Sony has been nice to the developers, the guys over at XDA seem to be doing just fine with the Xperia Play ATM. The only reason why I haven't picked one up myself is because I'm still hoping Sony has plans for a Play 2

Considering Sony's troubles with the Vita, I doubt we will see a XPlay2

 

[The Real Jdbye]

The emulator's source doesn't have any connection with any other emulator's, not even gpSP, so yeah it's from scratch. Compatibility is worse than desmume, but hopefully only a very small amount of that is due to intrinsic inaccuracies rather than bugs that can hopefully be fixed in time.



Well it's very subjective what passes as good enough emulation or what's considered extremely powerful, but I think a pretty mid-range phone or tablet should be okay for most people. Something with a couple Cortex-A9 cores (but not Tegra 2, it needs NEON) should work pretty well. On Pandora a lot of games run well and that only has a single Cortex-A8 @ 1GHz, but there are some efficiency advantages there vs running it on Android. Still, even a single core Cortex-A8 or Scorpion platform may be good enough some games.

Didn't realize you had an account on here. How well does it make use of multiple cores? Is the compatibility better than No$GBA?
Anyway great work on this, there are a couple desmume ports already but they run so slowly I wasn't sure a full speed emulator was possible.
I'm pretty amazed you wrote this from scratch. How long did that take?

 

[LightyKD]

Exophase: Does this emulator support local multiplayer? If yes, will it be via local WiFi, Bluetooth or both?

 

[Exophase]

Didn't realize you had an account on here. How well does it make use of multiple cores? Is the compatibility better than No$GBA?
Anyway great work on this, there are a couple desmume ports already but they run so slowly I wasn't sure a full speed emulator was possible.
I'm pretty amazed you wrote this from scratch. How long did that take?

There's an option to use another thread for 3D rendering, but it currently causes glitches in some games so it's off by default (I'm still working out improved strategies for this). It can improve performance quite a lot, although I wouldn't say it's a must. Other than that, the screen update runs on a separate thread in Android.

No idea about compatibility vs No$GBA big picture-wise, although I do know there are at least some games it plays that No$GBA doesn't.

I worked on it about 9 months from 2009 to 2010 and 11 months from 2012 to now so about 20 months total. Spent much more time on it than gpSP (or any other emulator stuff I've worked on). Lordus has also been working on the Android stuff for the past few months.

Exophase: Does this emulator support local multiplayer? If yes, will it be via local WiFi, Bluetooth or both?

There's no DS wifi emulation. That's really pretty complex.

 

[LightyKD]

There's an option to use another thread for 3D rendering, but it currently causes glitches in some games so it's off by default (I'm still working out improved strategies for this). It can improve performance quite a lot, although I wouldn't say it's a must. Other than that, the screen update runs on a separate thread in Android.

No idea about compatibility vs No$GBA big picture-wise, although I do know there are at least some games it plays that No$GBA doesn't.

I worked on it about 9 months from 2009 to 2010 and 11 months from 2012 to now so about 20 months total. Spent much more time on it than gpSP (or any other emulator stuff I've worked on). Lordus has also been working on the Android stuff for the past few months.



There's no DS wifi emulation. That's really pretty complex.

I'm sorry, I should have clarified myself. I wasn't talking about WiFi as in Nintendo WiFi connection but I was wondering if the local multiplayer protocol would be emulated and if THAT protocol would be using either local bluetooth or local wifi to connect multiple devices. Even with that said, I can totally understand if that would also be considered too hard to emulate. BTW any ETA on this great piece of software? I'm ready to just hand you mah money lol!

 

[Foxi4]

I guess it's outdated then... My PC can run Dolphin and PS2 emulators just fine, but the versions of No$GBA and DeSmume are very slow, maybe something to do with the settings (?), ;0;

Define "just fine". If it can run Dolphin and PCSX2, it should run NO$GBA blazing fast out of the box.

 

[Exophase]

Emulator is out. You can get it on the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.drastic&hl=en

 

[tofast4u]

Are you going to port this to the iphone?

 

[donelwero]

Nice!!! Thanks Exophase! I really don't need an emulator but I want to show support for your hard work. I'm buying it right now!

 

[bobmcjr]

I'm sorry, I should have clarified myself. I wasn't talking about WiFi as in Nintendo WiFi connection but I was wondering if the local multiplayer protocol would be emulated and if THAT protocol would be using either local bluetooth or local wifi to connect multiple devices. Even with that said, I can totally understand if that would also be considered too hard to emulate. BTW any ETA on this great piece of software? I'm ready to just hand you mah money lol!

The wifi chip itself (yes, its used in local multiplayer) is the complex part which is why its hard to emulate.

 

[donelwero]

Awesome, just tried Dragon Quest IX, really smooth!!

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I'll have to give this a try soon.

 

[BORTZ]

omg omg omg

wait wait I have a Droid Razr HD, does anyone know of any reason that would be non compatible off the top of their heads?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

omg omg omg

wait wait I have a Droid Razr HD, does anyone know of any reason that would be non compatible off the top of their heads?

Should work fine for your device.

 

[BORTZ]

Should work fine for your device.

yussss

ill have to wait till i get home to dump my bios from my DS lite
I dont feel like hunting to the right files

 

[pasc]

One of the many reasons android beats apple.

Its not like they don't have one aswell...

But Open Source is always a plus.