Exophase, the developer of the DraStic Nintendo DS emulator, has made a statement regarding the future of the emulator. DraStic has been a popular closed-source DS emulator on Android that has been available for many years. However, following the fallout from both Yuzu and Citra emulator's situations, Exophase has decided to take DraStic off of the Google Play Store. According to them, DraStic was already going to be pulled from the Google Play Store, regardless of current events, but that things made the issue, "more urgent".

Before the app gets delisted, Exophase has made DraStic free to download, when it had previously cost $4.99 to buy. They plan on eventually releasing the source code for the emulator as well. You can grab DraStic DS Emulator from the Google Play Store here.

Source: The Verge

 

[Xdqwerty]

We always have MelonDS

That one is slower

 

[SonyUSA]

...after all these years of pirating and I finally decided to buy this last month... only for this?! They got their revenge on me

 

[Ericzander]

Drastic times call for DraStic measures.

 

[JuanMena]

See, folks? This what i was talking about, every piece of homebrew/emulator/cfw etc projects will now follow suit.. Big N won! you'll be at their mercy and be happy.

Something I've noticed with these "Wah wha, Nintendo won! Wah wah!" is that Nintendo tends to do these when they're planning to release something alike themselves.

Allow me to elaborate:

• Another Metroid Remake, got taken down, months before Nintendo announced a proper 3DS remake of Return of Samus.
• Went after rom sites months before releasing the "virtual console" in the Switch.
  
  My guess is that, why wait this long to take down a Switch emulator?
  Well, according to tradition, I'm guessing that Nintendo is planning to emulate Switch with their new console.
  

 

[urbanman2004]

It's been a while since I've been online so I wanted to chime in while I have time. I don't feel so bittersweet a/b DraStic being given away for free since I bought DraStic back on Dec 8, 2019. However, I didn't even realize that the devs of YuZu also developed for Citra and I literally just bought Citra less than a month ago and I'm pissed that it was pulled from the Google Play store:

2 words: F*CK Nintendo

 

[CoolMe]

You never pay for software

Only feet pics.

Well, according to tradition, I'm guessing that Nintendo is planning to emulate Switch with their new console.

That could one of the reasons, but not the only reason.

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

What do Reddit users have to do with this?

Many posts complain bought the app in this 2024,similar to you. lol xD

 

[ZeroFX]

Doubt drastic was receiving any updates lately? He's just being weak and using this as excuse to drop development.

 

[fvig2001]

Drastic going open source is an absolute win
The more emulators, the better, and certainly Drastic is up there as one of the best alongside melonDS.

Hope this allows it to come to RA soon enough.

I hope it's true this time since he said it on 2019. At least this time, he's kind of forced to

 

[The Catboy]

At this point, I want piracy to kill Nintendo. If supporting them means dragging down emulators, then I hope Nintendo dies

 

[Kioku]

At this point, I want piracy to kill Nintendo. If supporting them means dragging down emulators, then I hope Nintendo dies

It’d be nice to see Nintendo negatively impacted (at this point, I don’t care about their image) by their weird stance on community driven projects, not piracy specifically. Unfortunately, unless we get more than our little sect here, nothing will change.

 

[The Catboy]

It’d be nice to see Nintendo negatively impacted (at this point, I don’t care about their image) by their weird stance on community driven projects, not piracy specifically. Unfortunately, unless we get more than our little sect here, nothing will change.

Yeah, I just want Nintendo to actually feel some pain from their actions. It’s frustrating that nothing will ever happen and nothing will get better

 

[Kraken_X]

I bought Drastic when I got the Samsung Z Fold4. It was basically the only reason why I liked that phone since it turned it into a DS with a foldable screen and the same form factor. The ability to resize the screens and on-screen controls in Drastic was unparalleled.

Something I've noticed with these "Wah wha, Nintendo won! Wah wah!" is that Nintendo tends to do these when they're planning to release something alike themselves.

Allow me to elaborate:

• Another Metroid Remake, got taken down, months before Nintendo announced a proper 3DS remake of Return of Samus.
• Went after rom sites months before releasing the "virtual console" in the Switch.
  
  My guess is that, why wait this long to take down a Switch emulator?
  Well, according to tradition, I'm guessing that Nintendo is planning to emulate Switch with their new console.

The Switch 2 got delayed by at least 6 months. That means that the Switch needs to last even longer than it already has, and Nintendo doesn't want to compete with PC playing the games better, especially when the PC players don't have to even buy the game.

 

[urbanman2004]

It’d be nice to see Nintendo negatively impacted (at this point, I don’t care about their image) by their weird stance on community driven projects, not piracy specifically. Unfortunately, unless we get more than our little sect here, nothing will change.

How ironic is it for Nintendo to say "emulation stifles innovation" (which they've stated on 2 occasions that I can recall: here and here), but yet they promote emulation whether through their NSO, Virtual Consoles or NES/SNES mini's in the past. F*cking greedy POS hypocrites.

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I bought Drastic when I got the Samsung Z Fold4. It was basically the only reason why I liked that phone since it turned it into a DS with a foldable screen and the same form factor. The ability to resize the screens and on-screen controls in Drastic was unparalleled.


The Switch 2 got delayed by at least 6 months. That means that the Switch needs to last even longer than it already has, and Nintendo doesn't want to compete with PC playing the games better, especially when the PC players don't have to even buy the game.

I actually bought DraStic from the Play Store back in 2019 after modding my PSC and enjoying how it ran on that device. Lately, I've been playing DraStic on my Amazon firestick 4K Max (16GB).

 

[tsam2]

Oh boy...

 

[orangy57]

People asked for the Drastic source and we finally get it in a twisted Monkey's Paw sort of way

 

[Nincompoopdo]

Nintendo is targeting people who are profiting from emulator. If they kept it free, Nintendo will have no rights to sue.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Nintendo is targeting people who are profiting from emulator. If they kept it free, Nintendo will have no rights to sue.

They want people to strictly play via their consoles than through emulation and to them, emulation is an enemy.

 

[MiiJack]

Could anybody teach me how to backup apks?

 

[Marc_LFD]

Could anybody teach me how to backup apks?

Either with a file explorer app or an apk backup app.