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
Amstrad
- AmeDS: Amstrad CPC 664, CPC 6128.
- CrocoDS: Amstrad CPC 6128.
Atari
- PenkoDS: Atari 800XL.
- PokeyDS: Atari 800XL.
- StyxDS: Atari ST.
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+.
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
Vectrex
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
- NitroGrafx
NES
- Midori
- NesDS
- NesterDS: and its enhanced version NesterDS+.
SNES
- BAG SFC
- CAT SFC
- 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, can be found in
\_nds\TWiLightMenu\emulators\
.
The list includes:
gameyob - (GB/GBC) jEnesisDS - (Sega Megadrive/Genesis) lolSNES - (SNES) nestwl/nesds - (NES) NitroGrafx - (PC-Engine) S8DS - (GG/MS/SG-1000) SNEmulDS - (SNES)
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 works more like a hypervisor rather than purely on emulation, meaning you don't need any kind of special flashcart or expansion pak. There's still a lot to improve, but has shown good compatibility and may even support multiplayer using the DS' local wireless communications in the future. Requires the actual GBA BIOS in order to work.
Pokémon Mini
- PokeMini DS PokeMini_DS
WonderSwan
- DualSwan DualSwan
Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
- RACE !: NGP/NGPC. race-ds-fixed
Watara Supervision
- Watari Watara Supervision