Best Ds Emulator For Wii
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Best Ds Emulator For Android

NDS4Droid is one of the best Nintendo DS emulators on Android and has been so for a long time. It is a free and open-source NDS emulator based on DeSmuME. The emulator supports critical features like save states, but the controls can be a little convoluted, especially with games such as Rune Factory that require multiple button-presses. DraStic DS Emulator is probably the best of the Nintendo DS emulators right now. During our testing, it played pretty much every game we threw at it. There are probably only a handful of games that. Apr 20, 2021 It’s official; Citra is the best of the best Nintendo DS emulators of all time! Some of our readers may remember us mentioning Citra back in our article on the best Nintendo Switch Emulator programs. Yuzu, the best Switch Emulator, comes from the same team that made Citra, and both emulators are highly regarded in the retro gaming world. We gathered the list of the best DS ROMs that you can download from this website. All of them are interesting and engaging games that were at the pinnacle of success after the console came in retail. After you download a suitable emulator, you can finally play all of them in the maximum quality.

Best Ds Emulator For Wii

Nintendo DS
Developer	Nintendo
Type	Handheld game console
Generation	Seventh generation
Release date	2004
Discontinued	2013
Predecessor	Game Boy Advance
Successor	Nintendo DSi
Emulated	✓

The Nintendo DS (NDS) is a handheld console produced by Nintendo on November 21, 2004 and had 2 ARM CPUs (ARM9 and ARM7) with 4MB of RAM. The main selling point was the use of dual screens for gameplay, with one being a touchscreen. It is the only console to have come close to the PlayStation 2 in lifetime sales (154.02 million units), as a result of attracting a large amount of casual players, and even non-gamers, into the gaming community.

1Emulators
2Connectivity
4Special hardware

Emulators[edit]

Name	Platform(s)	Latest Version	GBA	DSi	Libretro Core	FLOSS	Active
PC / x86
DeSmuME	0.9.12 Dev Builds	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
melonDS	✗	~	✓	✓	✓	✓
DeSmuME X432R	2015-04-19	✗	✗	✗	?	✗	✗
GBE+	1.5	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗ (WIP)
medusa	alpha 2	✓	✗	✗	?	✗^[1]	✗ (WIP)
CorgiDS	0.1 SVN	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗^[2]	✗
ndsemu	Git	✗	✗	✗	?	✗	✗
No$GBA	3.04	✓	~	✗	✗	✓	✗
NeonDS	0.2.1	✗	✗	✗	?	✗	✗
dasShiny	Git	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
DuoS	8/25/2012 Beta	✗	✗	✗	?	✗	✗
Ensata	1.4d	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗
iDeaS	1.0.4.0	✓	✗	✗	?	✗	✗
NooDS	Git	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗
Duality	Git	✗	✗	✗	?	✓	✗
Mobile / ARM
DraStic	r2.5.2.2a	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
melonDS (unofficial)	Git	~	~	✓	✓	✓	~ (WIP)
iNDS (nds4ios derived) (DeSmuME based)	Git	✗	✗	✗	?	✓	✓
nds4ios	SVN	✗	✗	✗	?	✗	✓
nds4droid (DeSmuME based)	Git	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
NooDS	Git	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗
Console
DesmumeX	0.87	✗	✗	✗	?	✗	✓
Virtual Console	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
melonDS	r5 fix 1	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗
NooDS	Git	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗
DeSmuME Wii	r253	✗	✗	✗	?	✗	✗
DeSmuME DC	v1.0.0	✗	✗	✗	?	✓	✓
PS2-DeSmuME	v1.0.0	✗	✗	✗	?	✓	✓
NotDeSmuME DeSmuMEWii Modded Version	1ab206ea	✗	✗	✗	?	✓	✓
DeSmuME PSP	Git	✗	✗	✗	?	✓	✗

Comparisons[edit]

DeSmuME: One of the most developed emulators for regular DS games. DeSmuME has had significant improvements since 2018, though new features are still in development and are only available through either nightly/dev builds. It now uses less CPU/GPU resources, and Wi-Fi is also underway. The latest 'Stable' build is no longer recommended as it's over 5 years old and lacks any new features. If you do run into issues on the dev builds, then try switching back to the last stable build (see Common Problems and Solutions for tips).
DraStic: A payware, closed-source emulator for Android devices that can run games at a decent speed even on potato phones. It's on par with (or in some cases better than) DeSmuME, and emulating it through BlueStacks on PC may actually be a viable and fast alternative aside from a slight input delay. Some rumors have spread around that the developers deliberately put in issues to mess with pirated copies, though this is considered unsubstantiated. At the very least, you shouldn't expect any support from Exophase and company if you use a pirated copy, though it is available for free on the Raspberry Pi and Odroid via RetroPie.
melonDS: Arisotura's goal is to make an emulator that's better optimized and includes features that others lack, either intentionally or not. While the developers of No$GBA had documented the Wi-Fi capabilities first, melonDS is the first and only emulator that's gotten as far as it has and it has been found to work reasonably well with a handful of games. There's also been progress made in emulating the DSi^[3]^[4], the latest version can now boot into the firmware and load some DSiWare through the NAND, but full 'DSi mode' support for retail games is still unsupported. It's on par with DeSmuME in terms of compatibility.
No$GBA: Focuses on speed, and has major compatibility issues and glitches as a result. But because it was originally a GBA emulator, the DS's 3D features are still very poorly handled. However, it might be an option for a very low-end machine but don't expect a lot of games to run perfectly, or at all. A fan program, No$Zoomer, was released for version 2.6 which increases compatibility and options, as well as the titular zooming abilities. The biggest addition is noise cancellation which clears up static that No$GBA makes with its 3D rendering. No$Zoomer hasn't rebased yet but does add options for window resizing. There haven't been any noticeable changes with regards to accuracy, however. In v2.8, No$GBA became the