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===Nintendo DS===
Initial attempt to emulate Nintendo DS was made in 2004. With so many emulators like iDeaS, and the leaked EnSata, it only got decent enough by 2007.
* [http://www.zophar.net/ds/dsemu.html DSEmu], first released in 2004, was the first "attempt" to emulate Nintendo DS, although it only emulated GBA hardware.
<!-- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/krk/kct/misc/emu.htm says 2004 for above two emulators but no other source mention release dates -->
* [[Ensata]]: An NDS emulator made by Nintendo (and Intelligent Systems?) that was leaked to emulation community in an unknown year<!-- 2005? 2006? -->. It could run select few commercial games, though compatibility was very low.
* [[DeSmuME]]: Developed by YopYop156 around 2005, first as "YopYop DS". Discontinued at version 0.3.3 in April 2006, citing a change of laws regarding emulation in France. Source The source code was then released. Many devs tried on their own to made make their own follow-up (one such emulator includes NDesMume, of which only one version was ever released), before teaming up and merging their work, resulting in build 0.5.0 as the starting point for the new emulator.
:With partial Wi-Fi emulation enabling online MP (but not local MP) in 2010, Nintendo supposedly threatened the devs with legal action (though this is unconfirmed). This resulted in the online Wi-Fi functionality being removed from the main trunk, yet it still had its own active branch which didn't face any legal action whatsoever.
:Similarly, the high-resolution DS rendering feature appeared first in shikaver's port (X432R), which was also more optimized for speed and kept getting updated with features from the trunk. Then in the closed-source commercial emulator [[DraStic]], before making it to Desmume.
* [[No$|NO$]]GBA: originally a GBA emulator, it received e-Reader and NDS emulation by its 2.4 version by 2006. It was for a long time THE emulator for DS games. It also had a partial implementation for local multiplayer that went nowhere, and a very useful debugger for modding DS/GBA games. Development stalled for a long time with version 2.6a published in April 2008. While it's not nearly up-to-par with the more recent games due to graphical problems, the apparent crashes on boot could be solved with a separate tool to decrypt DS images.
:Came back after a long hiatus in 2014 with version 2.7 and is now more or less under development - 2.8a notably is the first emulator to include DSiWare emulation.
