Drastic DS emu to be made open source.

[Hambrew]

View attachment 173994 which device would you like it to be port to?

DS

 

[Deleted User]

DS

THONKKKKKKKKKKKKK™
big brain of the century right here

 

[Humanity]

Ucking inally!
This is my emulator of choice when it comes to DS games, but playing it on my phone rather than an actual handheld console always made it feel kinda wrong. Hopefully, this will turn into Switch homebrew soon. I'd definitely welcome playing DS Pokémon games with fast forward enabled on a Nintendo device.

Now if this also meant that an ARM-optimized 3DS emulator was going to be in the works, that'd make my wildest dreams come true.


DraStic is mainly taking advantage of the ARM architecture, since it's the same, since the DS family of handhelds (as well as the 3DS family) is based on ARM. This is why you are capable of getting performances unrivaled by DeSmuME on smartphones and tablets. Iirc the Wii and Wii U do feature an ARM coprocessor each, but those are for handling IOS software (not to be confused with iOS by Apple).

Isn't DeSmuME notably slower than no$gba?

 

[Humanity]

Stop smoking cannabis
wii u and wii scene is pretty much dead homebrew wise
or why don't you port it ya self?

Wii is not dead homebrew wise.

 

[Idontknowwhattoputhere]

Wii is not dead homebrew wise.

Eh....
New releases are hard to come by

 

[Humanity]

Eh....
New releases are hard to come by

Do you mean totally brand new software or do you mean software updates?

 

[Idontknowwhattoputhere]

Do you mean totally brand new software or do you mean software updates?

Brand new software/homebrew

 

[Humanity]

Brand new software/homebrew

Then I suppose you are right.

 

[the_randomizer]

Ucking inally!
This is my emulator of choice when it comes to DS games, but playing it on my phone rather than an actual handheld console always made it feel kinda wrong. Hopefully, this will turn into Switch homebrew soon. I'd definitely welcome playing DS Pokémon games with fast forward enabled on a Nintendo device.

Now if this also meant that an ARM-optimized 3DS emulator was going to be in the works, that'd make my wildest dreams come true.


DraStic is mainly taking advantage of the ARM architecture, since it's the same, since the DS family of handhelds (as well as the 3DS family) is based on ARM. This is why you are capable of getting performances unrivaled by DeSmuME on smartphones and tablets. Iirc the Wii and Wii U do feature an ARM coprocessor each, but those are for handling IOS software (not to be confused with iOS by Apple).

Then we need a Switch port of it, because DeSmuME just ain't the optimized on ARM.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

DraStic is mainly taking advantage of the ARM architecture, since it's the same, since the DS family of handhelds (as well as the 3DS family) is based on ARM. This is why you are capable of getting performances unrivaled by DeSmuME on smartphones and tablets.

Nope, DraStic running on ARM has little to do with its speed, it's simply that Exophase developed DraStic to be a very well optimized emulator. As Exophase himself said:

If everything Android were using x86-64 instead of ARM all along the performance probably wouldn't be that much different, since I would have optimized it heavily for x86-64 instead.

https://drastic-ds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1939 <

 

[the_randomizer]

Nope, DraStic running on ARM has little to do with its speed, it's simply that Exophase developed DraStic to be a very well optimized emulator. As Exophase himself said:


https://drastic-ds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1939 <

Which is weird, considering it runs full speed on my Android phone, and having a somewhat weak CPU.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Which is weird, considering it runs full speed on my Android phone, and having a somewhat weak CPU.

As I said, it's because it's an extremely well optimized emulator. Android wasn't even it's initial platform, originally DraStic was first developed and released for the Open Pandora which has a 600mhz single core ARM SoC, and as such was optimized to run on extremely low end hardware ever since its release.

 

[the_randomizer]

As I said, it's because it's an extremely well optimized emulator. Android wasn't even it's initial platform, originally DraStic was first developed and released for the Open Pandora which has a 600mhz single core ARM SoC, and as such was optimized to run on extremely low end hardware ever since its release.

Hopefully a libretro core comes out someday

 

[Humanity]

Then we need a Switch port of it, because DeSmuME just ain't the optimized on ARM.

Is no$gba still noticeably faster than DeSmuME?

I have not really been keeping up since around 2011.

 

[the_randomizer]

Is no$gba still noticeably faster than DeSmuME?

I have not really been keeping up since around 2011.

It's faster, but some games still have audio issues (Mario 64 still has crackling audio in the intro). It's good for
debugging, but for general use, DraStic is superior.

 

[Humanity]

DraStic is superior.

Not yet. DraStic is behind a paywall still until next year and it is not available for Windows yet, either.

From what I have gathered, DraStic is faster than no$gba?

 

[the_randomizer]

Not yet. DraStic is behind a paywall still until next year and it is not available for Windows yet, either.

From what I have gathered, DraStic is faster than no$gba?

I meant in terms of emulation, it is. no$GBA still hasn't gotten the SM64 DS intro right after all these years, it still crackles a lot. DraStic is super fast.

 

[Humanity]

I meant in terms of emulation, it is. no$GBA still hasn't gotten the SM64 DS intro right after all these years, it still crackles a lot. DraStic is super fast.

Which is faster though, DraStic or no$gba?

 

[Jayinem81]

So according to catlover007 who has been working on MelonDS, this is coming to Retroarch Switch. Feel bad fo catlover for all the great work they've done, but this is also exciting.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/melonds-for-switch.518300/page-61#post-9072519

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

This never happened. What gives?