DS Emulators

[kyo_244]

Ok I'm sure there are a lot of emulators out there you guys know of so any info would be great. I'm basically new to the whole hand-held emulation scene so don't know jack about anything though I'm fully aware of how emulation works on a PC. Are there any decent MD, SNES, GBA emulators for the DS? And if so, how the hell do I get started? Do I need to DS/PC USB connectivity?

[MattyD]

You won't get anything working on a DS without one of these but they're pretty much only good for running GBA-based NES or Spectrum emulators.

There's hardly any substantial homebrew software for the DS besides the usual geeky stuff like Linux and useless little walkie-talkie programs.

[yosai]

Heres a list of some DS emus. Don't know how well they work mind.

Arcade
MarcaDS
Space Invaders

Atari 2600
Stella DS

Chip- 8
nds-8

Colecovision
ColecoDS

Commodore64
FrodoDS

Dreamcast VMU
VirtuaMUnstaz DS

Gameking
Gamekengu

Gameboy/Gameboy Colour
DS_GBC

GameGear/Sega Master System
DSMS

Genesis
GPNDS
PicoDrive

Msx
Fmsx DS
Fmsx DS Modified

NeoGeo Pocket
NDS NeoPop

Nes
NesterDS
NesDS
RetroBox DS

ScummVM
ScummVM DS
Unofficial ScummVM DS

Snes
SnesDS

Spectrum
DSpec

TI 85 Calculator
CalcEmu

Vectrex
VectxDS

Watari Supervision
Watari

Wonderswan
WonDerS
dualSwan

[NekoFever]

There's a very good port of ScummVM for the DS. Obviously given the control scheme it's an excellent format for the old point-and-click adventures and just proves that LucasArts is really missing an opportunity for a proper DS compilation.

[SuperDanX]

If picodrive is anything like the mobile phone version then thats worth a shot. If mobile phone can emulate a megadrive the ds must be able to. Also the gba had a few resnoble snes emulators, snesadvance being one, so again the ds should in theory do the job?

[kyo_244]

Cheers for the feedback guys. Looks like the DS still has a long way to go till it catches up with the like of PSP emulation. Then again thats just my opinion.

[basilb]

Oh yeah the DS might not have the edge on PSP as far as emulators go, but the homebrew programming scene is as good if not better, especially with fps ports like
http://heretic.drunkencoders.com/
and
http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/...=inc_si_ds.htm (hexen ds)

making decent use of the touch screen. QuakeDS has been blogged, but no release as of yet.

The real clincher is that -price of the machines aside- DS is always going to be the easier option for running homebrew/emu's without worrying about firmware restrictions.

[kyo_244]

Oh yeah the DS might not have the edge on PSP as far as emulators go, but the homebrew programming scene is as good if not better, especially with fps ports like
http://heretic.drunkencoders.com/
and
http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/...=inc_si_ds.htm (hexen ds)

making decent use of the touch screen. QuakeDS has been blogged, but no release as of yet.

The real clincher is that -price of the machines aside- DS is always going to be the easier option for running homebrew/emu's without worrying about firmware restrictions.

It says on the website: "These are distributed as "roms" as they're commonly known, so you can try playing them in a DS emulator (good luck!) or if you have the means you can play them on real hardware."

Means meaning flash cards or summit?

[NekoFever]

Yeah, you need a GBA flash cart to store the emulator, and then either a PassMe or one of the custom firmwares which allows you to boot DS code from the GBA slot. They may have flashable DS cards or a more elegant way to do it now (haven't really been following the scene) but that was how it worked when I was dabbling.

[Lebowski]

anyone read anything about this

http://us.codejunkies.com/shop/product.asp?c=GB&cr=GBP&cs=%A3&r=1&l=1&ProdID=750

seems an easy way to play homebrew stuff was thinking of getting one for my lite so i can play monkey island and sam and max on the scum emu.

[boxhead]

k have been using the ds passme with the supercard (lets you store software etc on sd cards) and its really good and quite cheap. I've got scumm running and its awsome but I can't seem to get it running in english. all text is displayed in spanish! anyone know how to change this?

[Lebowski]

k have been using the ds passme with the supercard (lets you store software etc on sd cards) and its really good and quite cheap. I've got scumm running and its awsome but I can't seem to get it running in english. all text is displayed in spanish! anyone know how to change this?

sounds like you have a spanish version of either the emu or monkeyisland