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The Nintendo DS emulator developed by Arisotura has been updated to version 0.9.5.
This update also marks the landmark of the emulator's 6th anniversary, and with it comes a whole slew of improvements and fixes.

Some of the most notable changes in this update are:

• Improved local multiplayer:
  Arisotura's main goal since the last update (0.9.4) back in March of 2022 was to improve upon the local multiplayer of the emulator.
  The previous versions had local multiplayer, but as Arisotura says it, it was "finicky", with one example being Mario Kart DS staying connected for only a few seconds, while with the new update, the connection remains stable, as well as for other games.
• DSi camera support.
  The DSi camera can now be outsourced to the physical cameras of the computer you're using or from an image.
• Revamped OpenGL context handling
  The OpenGL context that's was being used for Duckstation has been ported over to melonDS, courtesy of Generic.
• DSi DSP support
• CLI (command line interface) improvements

The full changelog in detail can be read on melonDS's GitHub release page:

• remove incorrect color profile from PNG icons (Nadia)
• DLDI fixes for the Smash demo (Arisotura)
• fix gaps in I/O handling (Arisotura)
• fix invalid savemem commands, fixes Dementium (Arisotura)
• FreeBIOS: add VRAM-compatible LZ77 decompress function, fixes Yoshi's Island (Arisotura)
• default firmware: in DSi mode, emulate DWM-W015 wifi board instead of DWM-W024 (Arisotura)
• default firmware: save WFC settings to separate file (Arisotura)
• disable firmware overrides UI when firmware override isn't checked (Nadia)
• 2D: more accurate fade/blending (Arisotura)
• DSi: add support for GXFIFO NDMA (Arisotura)
• DSi: add mainRAM mirror at 0x0C000000 (Arisotura)
• add 3DS 5:3 aspect ratio, refactor aspect ratio code (Nadia)
• OpenGL: fix 16x resolution on macOS (Nadia)
• fix triggers being recognized as negative analog stick values during mapping (Nadia)
• fix joystick mapping buttons on macOS (Nadia)
• DSi: preliminary implementation of SNDEXCNT (Generic)
• DSi: fix SD inserted/removed IRQ bits (Generic)
• DSi: implement 8/16bit access to AES registers (Generic)
• DSi: fix SCFG_MC cart-inserted bit (Generic)
• JIT: invalidate blocks in ARM7 VRAM/WRAM when it is remapped (Generic)
• fix ROM banner reading when the ROM has no banner (Rayyan, Arisotura)
• fix UTF16 ROM title handling in the ROM info dialog (Rayyan)
• wifi: improvements to wifi emulation (Arisotura)
• wifi: shared-memory based sync/comm mechanism for local wifi (Arisotura)
• proper support for multiple melonDS instances for multiplayer (Arisotura)
• DSi: actual, proper camera support (Arisotura)
• DSi: fix DSP enough that it will actually work (Arisotura)
• fix OpenGL context handling (Stenzek, Generic, Nadia)
• force-align all memory accesses (instead of just CPU memory accesses) (Arisotura)
• better CLI parameter handling (patataofcourse)
• fix bugs in DSi direct boot (Arisotura)

Source
GitHub

 

[Flame]

always nice to see an update and improvement of this such great project.

thank you Arisotura

 

[YuseiFD]

Man the dedication on this, i love it!!!

 

[AsPika2219]

Thanks for updates!

 

[hwanzzang]

Thank you for your nice work!!

 

[SylverReZ]

Thanks for the amazing work that you do.

 

[templeofhylia]

that's hot

 

[Zense]

Can't wait to check out Dragon Quest IX with this. Great job to all involved, especially Arisotura and Nadia.

 

[Thejax]

I’ve been dying to try our co-op with some friends for kingdom hearts days. Fingers crossed

 

[BLsquared]

Been following this for a bit. Congratulations, guys! That's great!!! Wow.

 

[Jayro]

Why would a fsi emu need a 3ds 5:3 aspect ratio?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

BLUE!?

Give me back my RED MELON!

Can't wait to check out Dragon Quest IX with this. Great job to all involved, especially Arisotura and Nadia.

Works great, especially with upscaled HD visuals. Hope you enjoy. Might be crazy to run a bunch of the emulators to get a four player party co-op.

Why would a fsi emu need a 3ds 5:3 aspect ratio?

Not sure, but if I remember, there was some mods for widescreen modes? Think you either patch the game directly or use some cheat codes. It might have some benefit with those, least that's what I was thinking.

 

[BETA215]

Why would a fsi emu need a 3ds 5:3 aspect ratio?

If you do a Google search, you'll easily figure out why having that option is a logical step: availability of codes.

Also, having more options is never a bad thing, right?

 

[FanNintendo]

Havn't start with DS on gaming pc yet and it look great. is there option that make graphic little blurry or less sprite pointy to make it like cartoonly out of drawing?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Havn't start with DS on gaming pc yet and it look great. is there option that make graphic little blurry or less sprite pointy to make it like cartoonly out of drawing?

The bilinear filter can be enabled with the screen filter option in the config menu. This is a common interpolation filter to make pixels less sharp and jagged. If the game you're playing uses 3D polygons, you can increase the internal resolution to improve the clarity of the visuals in the video settings. But this only works on games using 3D polygons for graphics.

 

[Jayro]

The bilinear filter can be enabled with the screen filter option in the config menu. This is a common interpolation filter to make pixels less sharp and jagged. If the game you're playing uses 3D polygons, you can increase the internal resolution to improve the clarity of the visuals in the video settings. But this only works on games using 3D polygons for graphics.

It's definitely better to have the bilinear filter on textures themselves (think of a PS2 playing PS1 games), instead of a bilinear filter over the whole screen, making everything slightly blurry. (PS3 playing PS1 games)

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

It's definitely better to have the bilinear filter on textures themselves (think of a PS2 playing PS1 games), instead of a bilinear filter over the whole screen, making everything slightly blurry. (PS3 playing PS1 games)

Well I don't think that's how this emulator functions. So I wouldn't know. Other emulators may be able to apply filters directly to textures, but if that's already a thing, they might as well just be replaced with better textures. (Which some emulators like dolphin, duckstation, and pcsx2 do already) Perhaps is not that crazy to believe a texture replacement feature can be added to melonDS. But don't expect it anytime soon.

 

[FanNintendo]

The bilinear filter can be enabled with the screen filter option in the config menu. This is a common interpolation filter to make pixels less sharp and jagged. If the game you're playing uses 3D polygons, you can increase the internal resolution to improve the clarity of the visuals in the video settings. But this only works on games using 3D polygons for graphics.

thanks for respond and info

 

[LightBeam]

Always nice to have a melonDS update
Does it make the « 2D » DragonQuest games play better tho ? Because the graphics are .... bugged to say the least. I was waiting for an update to improve on that to play them because I'm not willing to play those on Desmume

EDIT : Looks like it doesn't, maybe next time

 

[Emperor_Norton]

Wake up babe, MelonDS update just dropped