Homebrew WIP melonDS for Switch

[ploggy]

I hope you reconsider, I have been following your progress with this since the start. There's plenty of room for 2 (or more) DS Emulators on Switch

 

[Deleted member 323844]

Exophase releasing the DraStic code? Wow, I never thought I'd live to see such thing.

 

[lordelan]

you might have already heared that drastic has been ported to retroarch and will eventually be open sourced. With this on the horizon I see no point anymore continuing my work. This project is discontinued.

Don't throw it away like that. melonDS is great! Please keep up the good work!

 

[The Official GMan]

you might have already heared that drastic has been ported to retroarch and will eventually be open sourced. With this on the horizon I see no point anymore continuing my work. This project is discontinued.

Thanks for all the hard work you pored into the project. You have been extremely helpful to us here on the forum and we are all grateful for that. Hopefully someone else can pick up the work that you started or maybe it can be integrated into the main MelonDS branch in the future.

As has already been said, would love to see you continue. Let the community know if there is anything we can do to help.

 

[IcyKani]

do you use nsps?

EDIT: or piracy OS aka SX OS?

I have only one homebrew nsp installed (Celeste), I'm using atmosphere with hekate as a bootloader. I launch melonDS from the hbmenu that I open with R + any game. Hope that answers your question.

 

[DiscostewSM]

you might have already heared that drastic has been ported to retroarch and will eventually be open sourced. With this on the horizon I see no point anymore continuing my work. This project is discontinued.

Well, whatever you choose to do, your work has been greatly appreciated.

 

[sj33]

People jumped the gun regarding claims that DraStic was coming to the Switch. Even if they release a closed source libretro core, it would never be accepted as part of Switch Retroarch because they won't want to maintain support for a closed source core that cannot be modified or fixed.

Hope you do continue the work on this because you've done so much for DS emulation on Switch, but understand if you wanted to move on anyway.

 

[konamicode89]

Im also and most definitely in support of encouraging continued development on this DS emulator! It seems like awesome things are brewing this time around

 

[Rahkeesh]

Drastic isn't even that accurate. I see no point playing the Castlevania games with that kind of judder. Never mind that you can't even see things like the sniper's path in PoR. It was written to run fast on really garbage phones and had to cut corners everywhere to do so. A more accurate alternative is quite welcome and I hope it continues to develop.

 

[thogunnn]

thanks, you're not even the first person to point that out to me (in this thread), that illustrates my slowness quite well.

Anyway it's time for a new release. The 2D GPU has gotten a complete optimised rewrite, though like always there are still a few pieces lying around. Whether you can see an speedup and how much depends mostly on if the games uses features which were already optimised in the previous build. For 3D games it makes less of a difference, because everything associated with 3D still eats up a lot of frame time.
The affine layer bug in turn has been by the implementation (it affected e.g. the badge case in Pokemon Platinum or sudoku in Dr Kawashimas Brain Training). I haven't encountered bugs with the new implementation, but if you find graphics error, please let me know! Note that mosaic is still only implemented vertically.

Other reported bugs have been fixed such as stereo output or keeping or the overclock reset. The GUI now can be controlled with buttons, the controls are explained in the menu.

Support for a sample which is played back when pressing down the left stick carried over to this frontent, because the white noise which was available in the last version was not picked up by games as blowing into the microphone. The DS's microphone is incredible easy to overdrive and after too much trying around I figured out that most games seek for exactly this. This file() works in Mario Kart and Mario and Luigi Bowser's Inside Story. I'm curious how well it performs in other games.

romlist.bin is btw also included in the zip file, you only need extract the files from zip onto the root of your sd card. The bios and firmware files(named bios9.bin, bios7.bin and firmware.bin) still need to be added into /melonds.

The high shipping costs and/or dealing with customs held me back from buying a flip grip. If you want to support me and you're planning to order a flip grip in Europe yourself, consider ordering two and sending one to me (I would also add the option to rotate the GUI then). Thanks to @uzimakiuchiha who donated a flip grip!

EDIT: I forgot the file ^^

FIX 1: the help window incorrectly said rom files need to be placed into /roms/nds instead of /roms/ds
FIX 2: fixes the brightness up/down color effects for 3d layers (affected character creation screen in Dragon Quest IX as reported by @angelhp)

I somehow cannot see the download link? Am I too stupid or is there no link? :-D

 

[catlover007]

I somehow cannot see the download link? Am I too stupid or is there no link? :-D

I removed them all in a affect, though that turned out to be pretty stupid. I'm going to make a last release for the time being with all the changes which have accumulated as soon as I get a few things sorted out. Meanwhile, here's the latest release.

 

[DarkRaven2k3]

Thanks man. Your release is awesome compared to other emu.

Thanks for your hard work so far.
Maybe u will continue it by time.
Sad to read that you will stop working on it.

Also your menu is real cool

 

[spotanjo3]

I removed them all in a affect, though that turned out to be pretty stupid. I'm going to make a last release for the time being with all the changes which have accumulated as soon as I get a few things sorted out. Meanwhile, here's the latest release.

Thank you very much for your hard work. Keep up the good work!

 

[CosmoAquanaut]

melonDS for Switch

This is my port of the Nintendo DS emulator melonDS for the Nintendo Switch. To use it, place your legally dumped Nintendo DS BIOS files in the sdmc:/switch/melonds directory with the names "bios7.bin", bios9.bin", and "firmware.bin".

The emulator does have a hardware renderer, but it is currently broken on the Switch and in most cases actually runs slower than the software renderer. To get better performance, there is an option to enable overclocking of the Switch processor, with a maximum frequency of 1785 MHz. However, even with this, most games will not reach full speed!
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Great work man. Kudos!

 

[Squadz]

I think I know the answer, but there's no way to get this to work with retroarch right?

For achievement purposes.

 

[catlover007]

I think I know the answer, but there's no way to get this to work with retroarch right?

For achievement purposes.

you can already now download the melonDS core from the updater and it will contain all of my changes

 

[lordelan]

you can already now download the melonDS core from the updater and it will contain all of my changes

Does it allow touch input and vertical view in RetroArch? Then I gotta test that out!

 

[Squadz]

Does it allow touch input and vertical view in RetroArch? Then I gotta test that out!

Touch unsure.

Vertical yes, and horizontal and a few other options.

 

[whostolemywaffle]

has anyone gotten pokemon black to run any good? whenever I try it runs awful

 

[spotanjo3]

Wow, too many people are worry one game to run on it or not is: Pokemon.

I dont understand why Pokemon is popular. To be honest, I tried years ago and today and never liked it. Interested.