Actually, on her blog back in May, StapleButter said:

So yeah, for a while the project was dead, but just recently work on it has resumed. Which is why I chose to release this now!

 

opengl was implented to libnx? Anyone with a bit of experience, can port it to melonDS?

 

And then it is very possible that the fps will be increased? I like how it sounds.

 

DraStic was built specifically for the ARM architecture, but it is closed source, so we can't port it to the Switch.

 

great, nice to see some advances, thank you!

 

I know melonDS isn't coming as a retroarch core, but hopefully, it can benefit from the switch overclock methods!

 

After that last release, and seeing StapleButter working hard on melonDS, I was oddly inspired to keep working. So here's another release! Check it out on GitHub. Notes below.

And here's some extra information. I haven't actually tested this on my actual Switch yet; I've been using yuzu instead. It should work the same on an actual Switch, but let me know if you have any issues. I was planning on testing on my actual Switch, which I've been keeping homebrew-free since the online service launched, but my SD card reader was being wonky and I wasn't able to get my Switch homebrew-ready again. The only real downside to this is that I can't accurately test how the performance is affected by the new options. However, when I was first working on this port, when I had no audio support and had just added threading with no mutex locking (this is what fixes the tearing), some games, specifically 3D ones, would run slightly faster than DeSmuME-NX. So I've been planning on adding these options from the start. This is about the best I can do to up the performance without diving into core melonDS code and making some big changes. Which I do hope to do at some point, but I don't think I'm ready for that yet. @Jonhy the overclock is interesting; I've just now learned about it, but assuming it's a CPU overclock it'll definitely help melonDS. If it's a GPU overclock, it probably won't help. @Csmrcc the RetroArch bounty is specifically for N64 emulators; it won't benefit melonDS. Anyways, this turned into an essay, so I'm gonna stop myself here. Enjoy the new release!

 

That doesn't sound good. Thanks for telling me. Can anyone else confirm either of these issues? Crashing in v0.3 and missing sound in v0.2. I'm going to try to look into it.

 

Hey, the newest release on GitHub at time of posting ("Options Menu") runs pretty well, but there is no sound.
ReiNX newest release, firmware 5.1

Sound is enabled in the options menu

 

I don't get why emulators on the Switch aren't built for ARM, everything is painfully slow even though the system has a lot of potential. Drastic is by far my favorite emulator, it runs DS games at full speed even on a 100€ android phone from 2013. Maybe I'm too dumb to understand that, but isn't the effort worth it ? With all the power the Switch has, why don't make the best HD DS experience ever made ?