From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nintendo DS emulation
Nintendo DS emulation
Nintendo DS emulation is the act of emulating the Nin- sion 1.4d was leaked and cracked by the "EXPERiENCE"
tendo DS on non-native hardware. group.
History iDeaS
Main article: iDeaS
"NDS emu" was released before the Nintendo DS itself in iDeaS is an emulator that runs a lot of commercial games
November 2004. The purported emulator was packaged on a Windows PC with OpenGL. iDeaS has emulated the
with a demo file, as no commercial games had been made ARM7 GameBoy Advance processor at 100%, and the
available.[1] When commercial games were released, NDS ARM9 dual screen processor at 99%; enabling it to run
emu was unable to emulate them. "Dualis" was released many commercial ROMs, including Super Mario 64 DS and
on March 5, 2005. It could not run commercial games, but Pokémon Diamond & Pearl (with a few graphical errors).
could run homebrew games.[2][3] "NO$GBA" was released The touch screen is fully emulated with a cursor instead
with Nintendo DS support on January 22, 2006. An update of a hand, and a keyboard can be used to emulate the
of the emulator released on August 4, 2006, was stated by Nintendo DS buttons. iDeaS uses a plugin system that
the creators to be the first emulator supporting commer- originally came from the UltraHLE Nintendo 64 emulator
cial Nintendo DS games.[4][5] so that further support can achieved without looking at
the source code of the emulator. Plugins are available to
Emulators download on the homepage.
DeSmuME NO$GBA
Main article: DeSmuME Main article: NO$GBA
DeSmuME is an open source emulator for the Nintendo NO$GBA is a freeware Nintendo DS emulator capable of
DS created by YopYop156 licensed under GPL. The original running commercial and homebrew Gameboy Advance
DeSmuME is written in C++ for Linux, Mac OS and Win- and Nintendo DS games. The latest version is able to run
dows. It can play Nintendo DS homebrew and commercial Pokemon Diamond at full speed with no graphical glitch-
roms. Later versions are multiplatform and contain mul- es. NO$GBA stays freeware up to version 2.6; if the user
tiple user interfaces. It has been ported to other systems cares to obtain version 2.6a, he/she must make a "dona-
such as the PlayStation Portable. The original emulator tion" of $2.50. It is considered by many to be the first Nin-
was in French, but had user translations to other lan- tendo DS emulator to run commercial ROMs,[4] though
guages. It supported many homebrew Nintendo DS others state that’s already been countered by reports of
demos and some Wireless Multiboot demos. YopYop successful emulation elsewhere.[5]
stopped development on DeSmuME due to a change of A development tool for testing and debugging of
laws regarding emulation in France. However, the source Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS software has been
code has been released and other programmers have created by Martin Korth, supporting source level debug-
continued developing DeSmuME. ging, the tool is designed for programmers, it is useless
for gamers. The application is not freeware; those who
Ensata want to obtain it will have to make a payment according
to the version of the debugger they want.[6]
Main article: Ensata
Ensata is an official emulator provided to developers in
Nintendo DS development kits. It emulates the ARM7 and Physical flash card emulation
ARM9 dual screen processor at 100% with some software While ROMs can be run on a computer or laptop using
exceptions. The touch screen is fully emulated with a an emulator it is also possible to run downloaded games
cursor and works with a keyboard. Ensata is a cycle ac- from a specially designed blank game cartridge directly
curate emulator, and is designed for testing games which onto a Nintendo DS console. The majority of these Nin-
are in development, and not for general gameplay. Ensa- tendo DS storage devices are produced in the Far East
ta version 1.3c was leaked to the emulation community but can be purchased in most countries. Unlike the ROMs
by an unknown source and cracked by the "SMT" group themselves, the legality of these cards is an extremely
to operate without a Nintendo developer account. Ver- grey area, because as well as running illegally down-
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loaded ROMs, they can also be used to back up copies - Kotaku". Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/194244/
of genuine purchased games or run software and games first-nintendo-ds-emulator-running-commercial-
created by homebrew amateur developers.[7] roms-released. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
[5] ^ Paul Loughrey (August 15, 2006). "No$GBA offers
ROMs DS emulator News". Eurogamer.
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Nintendo DS ROMs are usually spread by individuals news150806dsemu. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
through peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent or by [6] "No$gba Gameboy Advance / Nintendo DS
direct download from numerous websites. Since the dis- Debugger Homepage". http://nocash.emubase.de/
tribution of many of these ROMs is illegal (as they are gba-dev.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
often copyrighted works), associations such as the En- [7] "Legality of DS flash cards".
tertainment Software Association often attempt to shut http://www.r4ishop.com/news/7/Is-Owning-an-
these sites down.[8] R4-DS-Card-Legal%3F.html. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
[8] "The Entertainment Software Association - Report
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[1] Nintendo DS emulator? - Engadget
[2] Dualis - A DS emulator
[3] Dualis, the Nintendo DS emulator - Engadget See also
[4] ^ brownlee (August 15, 2006). "First Nintendo DS • List of video game console emulators
Emulator Running Commercial ROMs Released! - Ds
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