Just how performance intensive are DS emulators?

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Try melonDS, I'm not sure exactly how much lighter it is but I'm fairly certain it's lighter than DeSmuME as DeSmuME is really heavy, I struggle to hit 60 FPS in DeSmuME on normal settings when I can typically run Citra fine.

There's also no$gba if you need an emulator that runs on super old computers, it runs on DOS lol, sounds like that's not what you're looking for though if you're trying to push internal render resolution. No$gba is a great debugger, but it's not great for just playing games if you have literally any other option.

I've also heard DraStic in Bluestacks or such runs better than any native PC emulator (though melonDS may be getting close?), however I'm not sure it can do what you want either as I've never used it.

 

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[BETA215]

Thanks for the reply. I tried melonDS previously but unfortunately wasn't able to get it to work with the DS ROMs I had dumped from my Wii U.

Have you tried the latest melonDS version? I think you'll now be able to play games with it.

 

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[BETA215]

Yeah, I only just tried it recently, last week, I believe. The creator of melonDS told me it doesn't work because VC ROMs are encrypted.

I've got no access to a Wii U sadly, but how did you got the ROM dumps? Did you tried following this guide? https://lendunistus.github.io/wiiuvcextract-guide/
Maybe it gives you the unencrypted ROMs

 

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