Emulators on DS

How you can turn your tiny NDS handheld into an emulation device. NDS is underpowered compared to PSP, but here's what you can take out of it.

Arcade

MAME ports:

• DSPack: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME).
• MAME4All: Port of MAME 0.37b5 emulator for Supercard DS Two only.
• SDLMAME

Game-specific:

• 1942 DS: emulates 1942 (all sets).
• 1943 DS: emulates 1943 (3 sets).
• AemioDA: Acronym for "Arcade Emulator Made In One Day", Asteroid.
• BombJack DS: BombJack arcade game emulator.
• Canyon DS: Canyon Bomber (prototype set also) emulator.
• DSInvaders: A Space Invaders Arcade Emulator.
• Ghosts'n Run: Arcade emulator for one game: Ghosts 'n Goblins.
• GreenBeretDS: Green Beret, Rush'n Attack & Mr. Goemon Arcade Emulator.
• MarcaDS: An arcade emulator.
• MrDo DS: Mr.Do!, Mr.Do's Castle, Do!Run Run & Mr.Do's Wild Ride arcade emulator.
• Pang DS: Pang and Super Pang Arcade Emulator.
• PuzzleKlax: Arcade emulator for Klax and Tetris.
• SnowBrosDS: Snow Bros., Nick & Tom (all sets), Arcade Games.
• Solomon's Key DS: Solomon's Key (US and Japan) Arcade Emulator.

Personal Computers

Apple II

• A2DS
• PomDS

Amstrad

• AmeDS: Amstrad CPC 664, CPC 6128.
• CrocoDS: Amstrad CPC 6128.

Atari

• PenkoDS: Atari 800XL.
• PokeyDS: Atari 800XL.
• StyxDS: Atari ST.
• Atari800: Atari 800XL
• XEGS-DS: Atari XEGS/800XL

Commodore

• FrodoDS: Commodore 64.

DOS

• DSx86: PC emulator that can run old DOS games. Has a custom configuration variant, DSx86Cfg.

Mac

• Mini vMac DS

MSX

• FmsxDS: MSX2.
• MSX DS: MSX, MSX2, MSX2+.
• PenkoDS: MSX2, MSX2+

Oric

• DSOric

ScummVM

• ScummVM DS

Sinclair

• DS81: Sinclair ZX81
• DSpec: Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
• SpeccyDS: Sinclair ZX Spectrum (48k model only).
• SpectrumDS: Sinclair ZX Spectrum (48k model only).
• ZXDS: Sinclair ZX Spectrum with WiFi multiplayer.

Other

• ThomDS: Thomson MO5 Computer emulator.
• XRoar: Dragon 32/64 emulator.
• Xyds: XY-MINI emulator.

Console

Atari

• A5200DS: Atari 5200 emulator.
• A7800DS 1 & 2: Atari 7800 emulator.
• StellaDS: Atari VCS 2600 emulator.

ColecoVision

• ColecoDS

Vectrex

• VectxDS

Sega Master System / Game Gear

• Apprentice MinusDS: GG/MS emulation.
• DSMasterplus: GG/MS.
• DSMS: GG/MS.
• S8DS: GG/MS/SG-1000 emulation.

Sega Megadrive / Genesis

• jEnesisDS
• PicoDriveDS

PC-Engine/TurboGrafX-16

• NitroGrafx

NES

• Midori
• NesDS
• NesterDS: and its enhanced version NesterDS+.

SNES

• BAG SFC
• CAT SFC
• lolSnes
• SnEmulDS
• SnesDS
• SnezziDS: port of the GBA-based SNES emulator Snezziboy (in its GBA incarnation, while functional it's less than ideal).

Neo Geo

• NeoDS: AES/MVS emulation. NeoDS v0.2.0

Multi-Console

• RetroBoxDS: Port of Retrobox, multi-console emulator.

• TWiLight Menu++ - includes a bunch of popular emulators, and can be found in \_nds\TWiLightMenu\emulators\.

The list includes:. gameyob - (GB/GBC). jEnesisDS - (Sega Megadrive/Genesis). nestwl/nesds - (NES). NitroGrafx - (PC-Engine). S8DS - (GG/MS/SG-1000). SNEmulDS - (SNES). GBARunner2 (GBA) PicoDriveTWL (Genesis/Megadrive) XEGS-DS (Atari800XL/XEGS) StellaDS (Atari 2600) A5200DS (Atari 5200) A7800DS (Atari 7800 ProSystem)

Handhelds

Game Boy

• DS Boy: B&W GB.
• DS_GBC: GB/GBC.
• Lameboy: GB/GBC
• Gameyob: GB/GBC

Game Boy Advance

• GBARunner2 - Unlike other attempts at running GBA on the DS, GBARunner2 is a hypervisor rather than purely on emulation, meaning it runs solely on present GBA hardware found within the DS itself.

Pokémon Mini

• PokeMini DS PokeMini_DS

WonderSwan

• DualSwan DualSwan

Neo Geo Pocket (Color)

• RACE !: NGP/NGPC. race-ds-fixed

Watara Supervision

• Watari Watara Supervision

Links

Curated list of emulators

Emulators from Filetrip

Rather out-of-date list of emulators