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==Emulators==

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! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Latest Version

! scope="col"|GBA

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

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|[[DeSmuME]]

|[https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zeromus/desmume {{DeSmuMEVer}}]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

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|[[melonDS]]

|[http://melonds.kuribo64.net/downloads.php {{MelonDSVer}}]

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|[[DeSmuME#Graphical_Enhancement|DeSmuME X432R]]

|[http://shikaver01.webcrow.jp/desmume_x432r/index.html 2015-04-19]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}

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|[[GBE+]]

|[https://github.com/shonumi/gbe-plus/releases {{GBEVer}}]

|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} <small>(WIP)</small>

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|[[mGBA#medusa|medusa]]

|[https://mgba.io/downloads.html alpha 2]

|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} || {{✗}}<ref name="medusa suspended"/>||{{✗}} <small>(WIP)</small>

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|[https://corgids.wordpress.com/ CorgiDS]

|[https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/CorgiDS/releases 0.1]<br />[http://www.emucr.com/search/label/CorgiDS SVN]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}<ref>https://corgids.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/extended-break/</ref> ||{{✗}}

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|ndsemu

|[https://github.com/rasky/ndsemu Git]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[[No$|No$GBA]]

|[http://problemkaputt.de/gba.htm {{No$GBAVer}}]

|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20110225190819/http://neonds.com/ NeonDS]

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100925152735/http://neonds.com/system/files/NeonDS_0.2.1.zip 0.2.1]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|dasShiny

|[https://github.com/Cydrak/dasShiny Git]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[http://ds-duos.blogspot.com/ DuoS]

|[http://www.emulator-zone.com/download.php/emulators/nds/duos/DuoS.zip 8/25/2012 Beta]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[[Ensata]]

|[http://www.mediafire.com/file/x0odmalrndt9m7a/Ensata+v1.4d.rar 1.4d]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20111130005614/http://ideasemu.biz/ iDeaS]

|[http://www.emulator-zone.com/files/emulators/nds/ideas/ideas1040.7z 1.0.4.0]

|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[https://github.com/Hydr8gon/NooDS NooDS]

|[https://github.com/Hydr8gon/NooDS Git]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|[[DraStic]]

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.drastic {{DraSticVer}}]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

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|[https://inds.nerd.net/ iNDS]<br/><small>(nds4ios derived)</small><br/><small>(DeSmuME based)</small>

|[https://github.com/iNDS-Team/iNDS/releases Git]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

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|nds4ios

|[http://nds4ios.angelxwind.net/i/?page/downloads SVN]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

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|Dsoid

|[http://www.emucr.com/search/label/Dsoid?&max-results=12 SVN]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[http://jeffq.com/blog/nds4droid/ nds4droid]<br/><small>(DeSmuME based)</small>

|[https://github.com/jquesnelle/nds4droid Git]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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'''Comparisons of several Nintendo DS emulators:'''

===High Resolution===

|-

! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Latest Version

! scope="col"|Local

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|[[melonDS|melonDS]]

|{{MelonDSVer}}

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|[[DeSmuME]]

|{{DeSmuMEVer}}

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}} ||{{✓}}

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|[[No$|No$GBA]]

|[http://problemkaputt.de/gba.htm {{No$GBAVer}}]

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

===Local Wireless Communication===

===DS Download Play===

===Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection===

===DS/Wii Connectivity===

===GBA/DS Connectivity===

==Nintendo DSi==

==Special Hardware==

;Pokémon Keyboard: Bundled with the Pokémon Typing game (JP/UK/FR). The game refuses to boot without a keyboard, but it can be run on emulators with an anti-piracy fix and another DeSmuME-specific save bug fix. There is also [http://pokemonlog.com/pokemon-fuligin-download-rom/ a pre-patched ROM.] While it's playable using the on-screen keyboard on the lower screen, the keyboard isn't actually emulated. There is [https://github.com/AnimeCommander/Learn.With.Pokemon-Typing-Adventure.lua/blob/master/Pok%C3%A9mon%20Typing%20DS%20Keyboard%20Script.lua a Lua script] that permits using the actual keyboard by mapping presses of the actual keyboard to taps of the virtual Touch Screen. However, you are going to need to blank out all the control/hotkey bindings of DeSmuME if you are going to play this game because some of the keyboard keys also activate some controls; otherwise, pressing the Q key would also pause the game, given one example. A recommendation would be to have a separate copy of 32-bit DeSMuMe which purpose is playing *only* the Pokémon typing games. In that copy, place the patched ROM, the Lua script, and a 32-bit version of [https://sourceforge.net/projects/luabinaries/files/5.1.5/Windows%20Libraries/Dynamic/ lua51.dll.] (The platform used in building the <code>.dll</code> should not matter.) Even then, not only is the emulated workaround a little slow, but saving is still broken. Use savestates, instead.

;DS Camera: Accessory bundled with the Japan-only Face Training (a European localization for Christmas 2007 was canceled, and it was released as a retail DSi game in 2010 using the internal camera rather than the original accessory). Not to be confused with the built-in DSi camera. No emulators exist for it at all.

===iQue DS Region Lock===

iQue is Nintendo's Chinese subsidiary (previously a partnership between them and Wei Yen until 2013), so when they released the DS with a few localized games, their ROMs had special flags set in them to check if the hardware that ran the cartridge was iQue's or Nintendo's as a sort of region lock. Nintendo's own hardware would fail this check, throwing an "Only for iQue DS" error in white text on a black background. No other DS games have this mechanism; not even for Korean releases. This region lock is bypassed by the 3DS for these DS games, even though 3DS games have their own region lock. It's weird.

The only way the ROM will accept other hardware (and thus emulators) is with a hack, involving a simple byte change. Use a hex editor to change the byte located at <code>0x1D</code> from value <code>80</code> to <code>00</code>.