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Isn't DeSmuME notably slower than no$gba?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).
Wii is not dead homebrew wise.Stop smoking cannabis
wii u and wii scene is pretty much dead homebrew wise
or why don't you port it ya self?
Eh....Wii is not dead homebrew wise.
Do you mean totally brand new software or do you mean software updates?Eh....
New releases are hard to come by
Brand new software/homebrewDo you mean totally brand new software or do you mean software updates?
Then I suppose you are right.Brand new software/homebrew
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).
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: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.
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.
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 <
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.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.
Is no$gba still noticeably faster than DeSmuME?Then we need a Switch port of it, because DeSmuME just ain't the optimized on ARM.
Is no$gba still noticeably faster than DeSmuME?
I have not really been keeping up since around 2011.
Not yet. DraStic is behind a paywall still until next year and it is not available for Windows yet, either.DraStic is superior.
Not yet. DraStic is behind a paywall still until next year and it is not available for Windows yet, either.
From what I have gathered, DraStic is faster than no$gba?
Which is faster though, DraStic or 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.