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DraStic is currently available for Android, Linux (on Raspberry Pi) and Pandora. Some may find the asking price too high.
ThereDraStic has always been closed-source, which has given people mixed feelings with some even going as far as to suspect that devs may be plagiarizing or breaking some kind of licensing (though no known evidence has turned up to support either claims), however it has slowly began to open up with it being ported to other ARM platforms like the Raspberry Pi. For a long time, the topic about open-sourcing DraStic has been debated, with the primary reasons being: 1.) It doesn't make sense to sell the app if the source was available. 2.) Fear of hydra-like copycats flooding the market trying to cash in. It's also long been plans accepted that if it were to make DraStic ever be open-sourcesourced that it would be when development has ended/when they stopped selling it, but not until it adds however this may be happening soon. Right now the devs are trying to polish support for 64-bit<ref name="DraStic releases r2.5.1.1a"> https://drastic-ds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5501&sid=34f924a7b66083e2b73eebeee281f36d</ref> , since Android is requiring has required all apps to support 64-bit by August 2019, before calling it ready to open-source . CurrentlyThis is projected to happen sometime in 2020, they will begin beta testing for the 64-bit support however in the coming months and are expecting to open source it at the start of next yearmeantime they may release more ports<ref name="update">https://drastic-ds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5680</ref>.
Fixed outdated wording for possibility of open-source (may need more refrences/citations but I'm too tired atm)
==Overview==
Contrary to what some may assume, the ARM instruction set of the DS processors are of little benefit to the ones used by most Android devices. According to Exophase, running DS code straight on Android would lead to numerous issues. He also noted that the approach used in DraStic isn't any much different to other emulators, apart from implementing and optimizing it with speed and low-end devices in mind.<ref>[http://drastic-ds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1939 DraStic • View topic - Just a question...]</ref>
*Some games, namely Holly Hobbie and American Girl titles, run with rendering issues like flickering geometry or sprites. This was largely fixed in r2.3.0.0 and up, however.
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