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[eeyore the donkey]

credit goes to REIROM for finding this

still in it's early stages, but there's a legit Nintendo DS emulator out now if you didn't know yet

it's called DeSmuME... i'm not going to give a link to it unless it's ok? there are no ROMs on the site (a French site) that i can see. you can just type in DeSmuME in google and it's the first result. no viruses or anything in the file

here are a few pics of it (from reirom's pc)

pretty cool if you ask me!

 

[olimario]

Pretty illegal and not cool at all. I hope this doesnt cut down on DS sales.

 

[eeyore the donkey]

some of the games are buggy but again DS emulation has just begun... eventually the bugs should be ironed out and most of the games playable

 

[eeyore the donkey]

Pretty illegal and not cool at all. I hope this doesnt cut down on DS sales.

pretty illegal as in i will get banned or you mean DS emulation in general? if the latter, yeah i agree but you knew it would eventually happen... there's always going to be piracy in videogames, what can ya do?

 

[Jeff-DSA]

pretty illegal as in i will get banned or you mean DS emulation in general? if the latter, yeah i agree but you knew it would eventually happen... there's always going to be piracy in videogames, what can ya do?

Stop spreading the word, for starters.

 

[syllogism]

There have been DS emulators out for a while, no need to credit cretins

edit: they are still pretty worthless, however

 

[Robobandit]

thought better of my reply..

 

[7Th]

Old. First DS emulators were out since last year.

 

[Cheebs]

Stop spreading the word, for starters.

We shouldn't give these emu guys the satisfaction of spreading their product. What they did is not at all a good thing.

 

[fse]

I bet some people here would freak out if there ever is a psp emulator haha (never gonna happen)

We shouldn't give these emu guys the satisfaction of spreading their product. What they did is not at all a good thing.

nothing different from companies making emulators to run windows apps in macs or linux.

 

[eeyore the donkey]

Stop spreading the word, for starters.

honestly, this is a handheld we're talking about here... there's not much incentive to play these games on your PC. the whole point of handhelds is to play them on the go...know what i'm saying?

 

[Rubik]

i can't imagine a DS emulator will matter at all in the long run...

the DS is the first system where its virtually impossible to reproduce the gameplay experience on a computer.

maybe i can tape my USB controller to my Wacom tablet, and feel like a huge idiot in the process...

or i could just get a DS...

 

[CompositeMolar]

honestly, this is a handheld we're talking about here... there's not much incentive to play these games on your PC. the whole point of handhelds is to play them on the go...know what i'm saying?

No.

 

[tedtropy]

Pretty illegal and not cool at all. I hope this doesnt cut down on DS sales.

Oh get off of it. If nothing else, you have to respect the technical accomplishment here, and it's years away from being anything remotely 1:1 in terms of DS performance, in addition to the whole my-monitor-lacking-a-digitizer thing. Yeah, maybe some clever person will create a stylus-to-mouse converter, but I can't really see it working all that well. DS emulation on a PC is just neat to see and not entirely practical, plus the main appeal of the DS is its portability. The technical boundries aside, when has a current-gen emulator ever really hurt game sales?

 

[Nester]

i can't imagine a DS emulator will matter at all in the long run...

the DS is the first system where its virtually impossible to reproduce the gameplay experience on a computer.

maybe i can tape my USB controller to my Wacom tablet, and feel like a huge idiot in the process...

or i could just get a DS...

Use the mouse pointer on the bottom screen as a virtual stylus, other hand on the keyboard for any other button inputs needed?

Doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to me.

 

[DSN2K]

emulation is pretty cool, you should see some of the stuff being done with N64 games and what pixel shader filters can do to PSX games.

 

[syllogism]

Yeah, maybe some clever person will create a stylus-to-mouse converter,

They already have

 

[tedtropy]

They already have

Does it not suck ass?

 

[Deleted member 1235]

eh I'm sure nintendo doesn't feel very threatened by DS getting emulated, if they make an affordable flashcard ala GBA however.....

 

[shuri]

the DS is the first system where its virtually impossible to reproduce the gameplay experience on a computer.

I'm sorry, how is it different than a mouse? I would really like to have an explanation

 

[syllogism]

Does it not suck ass?

I suppose it works, but it's not as fun and these emulators are still in pretty early stages so it doesn't really matter yet

 

[tedtropy]

I'm sorry, how is it different than a mouse? I would really like to have an explanation

Ask anyone that does any kind of graphical work the differences between the precision of a Wacom tablet/stylus and a mouse. They're leagues apart.

 

[jett]

I don't see anything wrong with this. Emulators aren't illegal. It's the rom-downloading-and-playing that is.

 

[Sho Nuff]

Pretty illegal and not cool at all. I hope this doesnt cut down on DS sales.

I'm sure it'll cut down on sales, just like when the first GBA emus came out and everyone in the world simultaneously stopped buying GBAs.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I'm sorry, how is it different than a mouse? I would really like to have an explanation

come on. download some gba games and play them with just keyboard. That's closer to the real deal than playing DS games with a mouse and it still sucks ass.

 

[Taker666]

I'm sorry, how is it different than a mouse? I would really like to have an explanation

Because you are directly physically interacting with what's on screen with the DS.

It's like emulating a lightgun game on the PC and using the mouse to do the shooting. You can get the same final results but the experience just isn't close to the original.

 

[Xellotah]

I don't see anything wrong with this. Emulators aren't illegal. It's the rom-downloading-and-playing that is.

Theres no point in downloading roms if there weren't emulators to play them on.

 

[Economan]

sweet, I can sell my ds now to buy a psp.

 

[pxleyes]

Simply use a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse if you already own one...

 

[shuri]

Because you are directly physically interacting with what's on screen with the DS.

It's like emulating a lightgun game on the PC and using the mouse to do the shooting. You can get the same final results but the experience just isn't close to the original.

what if my mouse was instead a tablet stylus setup. Would it suddenly be different Stop living in denial. you know there's no difference. As a big fan of lightgun games, i can understand that emulating them is rather futile, it would be like playing ddr with a joypad.

But take your average flash game. Would running the same games on an emulator running on ds would suddenly ruin 'the original experience' because my control support is a stylus? Would Pacman DS or any other games that actually use the DS's touch screen; where you draw Pacman on a screen would suddenly feel any different, or play any different with a mouse?


I'm afraid not. I'm afraid not.

 

[Drinky Crow]

sweet, now I don't need to buy a DS to play New Super Mario Bros.

 

[bee]

had this emulator for a while the guy who writes it has made huge leaps with it recently , only 2d games work and very few of those work properly bomberman,kirby,mr driller and polarium spring to mind. the mouse stylus emulation works really well , u can draw the lines in kirby etc ( u just cant see them yet ) it is however kinda slow ,i take it most ds games run at 60fps? cos on a athlon64 3200 most run around 30fps and feel slooow.

 

[tedtropy]

Simply use a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse if you already own one...

Any how many people own one? And of that group, how many give a crap about DS emulation? I suppose those that do care could run out a pay at least $100 for the most basic Wacom tablet. Or we can just wait for the inevitable mouse-to-wacom emulation for DS input emulatior emulation...EMULATORS!

 

[quetz67]

In my case good for Nintendo, I will not buy a DS to play MP:Hunters but I might buy it to play it on the PC.

 

[Taker666]

what if my mouse was instead a tablet stylus setup. Would it suddenly be different Stop living in denial. you know there's no difference. As a big fan of lightgun games, i can understand that emulating them is rather futile, it would be like playing ddr with a joypad.

But take your average flash game. Would running the same games on an emulator running on ds would suddenly ruin 'the original experience' because my control support is a stylus? Would Pacman DS or any other games that actually use the DS's capacibilities; where you draw Pacman on a screen would suddenly feel any different, or play any different with a mouse?


I'm afraid not. I'm afraid not.

yes...because you are not physically interacting with what's onscreen.

 

[joshschw]

Simply use a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse if you already own one...

still not anywhere near as good since the gameplay image is not on the tablet, which is necessary for a lot of games.

 

[sprsk]

In my case good for Nintendo, I will not buy a DS to play MP:Hunters but I might buy it to play it on the PC.

are you braindead

 

[Littleberu]

sweet, now I don't need to buy a DS to play New Super Mario Bros.

Oh but you already own a DS. You already are.

 

[fennec fox]

I love how people talk about emulators of other systems all the time here, but when emulation hits their precious and flawless DS, OH NO BAN THE POSTER WE MUST STOP IT FROM SPREADING. Sheesh.

 

[tedtropy]

In my case good for Nintendo, I will not buy a DS to play MP:Hunters but I might buy it to play it on the PC.

Well you have fun waiting those four years before it's even playable at 4fps on a DS emulator. No doubt they will be awesome times.

 

[pxleyes]

still not anywhere near as good since the gameplay image is not on the tablet, which is necessary for a lot of games.

mouse pointer FTW.

Look, if you really want to push it, a tablet PC would work well too.

Regardless, a normal mouse would work just fine, and I see no issue with it what-so-ever.

 

[shuri]

yes...because you are not physically interacting with what's onscreen.

You mean that using my mouse to "physically interact' by pointing, and draging around the screen isnt the same than using a stylus, pointing and dragging around the screen?

:|

Pretty illegal and not cool at all. I hope this doesnt cut down on DS sales.

Indeed, with a system like DS being on life support due to poor sales, I think it's important we give the good exemple

 

[renvi]

Pretty illegal and not cool at all. I hope this doesnt cut down on DS sales.

I don't think it will cut down any DS sales.
GB and GBA has tons of emulators that works perfectly, it seemed they did not affect the GB/GBA sale at all.

 

[quetz67]

Well you have fun waiting those four years before it's even playable at 4fps on a DS emulator. No doubt they will be awesome times.

My Celeron 300 machine ran the first N64 emulator just fine. Even if the NDS was ten times more powerful, my PC is too. And MP:Hunters is not even out yet, who knows how long I have to wait anyway.

 

[sprsk]

My Celeron 300 machine ran the first N64 emulator just fine. Even if the NDS was ten times more powerful, my PC is too. And MP:Hunters is not even out yet, who knows how long I have to wait anyway.

uhhhhh

 

[Matlock]

uhhhhh

I second that--a celeron 500 barely runs gba emus correctly.

 

[human5892]

My Celeron 300 machine ran the first N64 emulator just fine. Even if the NDS was ten times more powerful, my PC is too. And MP:Hunters is not even out yet, who knows how long I have to wait anyway.

U2K Tha Greate$t?!?!

 

[john2kx]

Pretty cool and not illegal at all.

Fixed.

Emulators = legal
roms of commercial games = illegal

Emulators have plenty of usefulness for the dev community.

 

[Mandoric]

I'm sure it'll cut down on sales, just like when the first GBA emus came out and everyone in the world simultaneously stopped buying GBAs.

Yeah, the week the first GBA emulator came out, sales dropped to 0 worldwide!

Spoiler

It not being out yet may have contributed, I guess.

 

[Kandinsky]

what if my mouse was instead a tablet stylus setup. Would it suddenly be different Stop living in denial. you know there's no difference. As a big fan of lightgun games, i can understand that emulating them is rather futile, it would be like playing ddr with a joypad.

But take your average flash game. Would running the same games on an emulator running on ds would suddenly ruin 'the original experience' because my control support is a stylus? Would Pacman DS or any other games that actually use the DS's touch screen; where you draw Pacman on a screen would suddenly feel any different, or play any different with a mouse?


I'm afraid not. I'm afraid not.

ok, go and make a near perfect circle on paintbrush with your awesome mouse.

I love how people talk about emulators of other systems all the time here, but when emulation hits their precious and flawless DS, OH NO BAN THE POSTER WE MUST STOP IT FROM SPREADING. Sheesh.

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