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Emulators on DS

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Nintendo DS
Developer Nintendo
Type Handheld game console
Generation Seventh generation
Release date 2004
Discontinued 2013
Predecessor Game Boy Advance
Successor Nintendo 3DS
Emulated ✓

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. Compatibility information isn't accurate on here as of now.

Arcade

MAME (ports)

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME4All 1.0 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
DSPack 1.95 Mid ? ✗ ✓
MAME4All
Port of MAME 0.37b5 emulator for Supercard DS Two only.

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

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
A2DS 2008 Mid ✓ ✗ ✓
PomDS 2.0 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

Amstrad CPC

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
AmeDS 4.0 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
CrocoDS 2.0 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

Atari 8-bit

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
XEGS-DS git Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
Atari800 2.0 Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
PenkoDS 0.2a Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
PokeyDS 1.1 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

Atari ST

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
StyxDS 0.2a Mid ✗ ✗ ~

Commodore 64

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
FrodoDS Complete Mid ✓ ✗ ✓

DOS

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
DSx86 0.36 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
DSx86
PC emulator that can run old DOS games. Has a custom configuration variant, DSx86Cfg.

Mac

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Mini vMac DS R3 2008 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

MSX

Name Version MSX 1 MSX 2 MSX 2+ Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
MSX DS 0.94 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
PenkoDS 0.2a ✗ ✓ ✓ Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
FmsxDS 0.09 ✗ ✓ ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓

Oric

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
DSOric 1.0 Mid ? ✗ ✓

ScummVM

Name Version FLOSS Active Recommended
ScummVM DS 2.5.0 ✓ ✓ ✓

Sinclair

Name Version ZX81 ZX Spectrum Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
DS81 1.3 ✓ ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✓
ZXDS 1.3.4 ✗ ✓ Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
DSpec Final ✗ ✓ Mid ✗ ✗ ✗
SpectrumDS 2009 ✗ ✓ (48k only) Mid ✗ ✗ ✗
SpeccyDS 0.3 ✗ ✓ (48k only) Mid ✗ ✗ ✗
ZXDS
By far the most accurate and feature-packed DS ZX Spectrum emulator. Has WiFi multiplayer support.

Thomson MO5

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
ThomDS 3.0 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

Dragon 32/64

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
XRoar 0.24fp3 Mid ✓ ✗ ✓

XY-MINI

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Xyds 0.2 Mid ? ✗ ✓

Console

Atari

Name Version 2600 5200 7800 Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
A5200DS git ✗ ✓ ✗ Mid ? ✓ ✓
A7800DS git ✗ ✗ ✓ Mid ? ✓ ✓
StellaDS 1.2 ✓ ✗ ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✓

ColecoVision

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
ColecoDS 2.1 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

Vectrex

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
VectxDS 0.1 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

Sega Master System / Game Gear

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Apprentice MinusDS 0.4.0 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
DSMasterplus 1.3a Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
S8DS 0.9 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
DSMS 0.2 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
S8DS
Includes SG-1000 emulation.

Sega Megadrive / Genesis

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
jEnesisDS 0.7.4 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
PicoDriveDS git Mid ✗ ✗ ✗

PC-Engine/TurboGrafX-16

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
NitroGrafx 0.7 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

NES

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
NesDS 2014 Mid ✓ ✗ ✓
NesterDS/+ 0.3

0.3.9

Mid ? ✗ ✓
RetroBoxDS 2005 Mid ✗ ✗ ?
Midori 1.3a Mid ✗ ✗ ✗

SNES

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
SnEmulDS 0.6a Low ✓ ✗ ~
lolSnes 1.1 Low ✓ ✗ ?
CAT SFC git Low ✓ ✗ ?
BAG SFC r3 Low ✗ ✗ ?
SnesDS 2005 Low ✗ ✗ ✗
SnezziDS 0.28a Low ? ✗ ✗
SNEmulDS
port of the DOS SNES emulator SNEmul. Has the best compatibility and speed.
lolSnes
the precursor to BlargSNES. Very barebones.
SnezziDS
port of the GBA-based SNES emulator Snezziboy (in its GBA incarnation, while functional it's less than ideal).

Neo Geo AES/MVS

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
NeoDS 0.2.0 Mid ? ✗ ~

Multi-Console

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
TWiLight Menu++ git Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
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

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Gameyob git Mid ✓ ~ ✓
Lameboy 0.12 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
DS_GBC 0.1 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
DS Boy 0.75 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

Game Boy Advance

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
GBARunner2 git Mid ✓ ✗ ✓
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

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
PokeMini DS 0.60 Mid ✓ ✗ ✓

WonderSwan

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
DualSwan 1.2.1 Mid ✗ ✗ ✓

Neo Geo Pocket (Color)

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
RACE! DS FIXED Mid ✓ ✗ ~

Watara Supervision

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Watari 0.4 Mid ✗ ✗ ~

External links

See also

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