Warriorisabouttodie Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 I'd love to hear some recommendations for good emus I can load onto my flash card for the Nintendo DS. I've tried a couple and never had very good results except the NES and Game boy emulation. I would love to be able to emulate Atari 8 bits, Turbo Grafx16, 2600 and it would be nice to do Amiga, ST, SNES and Genesis, but i assume those emulations would require more horsepower than my DS could give it. I'm interested in anything that runs full speed with sound on the DS, every platform has something interesting for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenegg Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Here's a list of all emulators available for the NDS - http://www.zophar.net/consoles/nds.html Don't expect much from them. The NDS is a very low powered system. It doesn't emulate much very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warriorisabouttodie Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 Here's a list of all emulators available for the NDS - http://www.zophar.ne...nsoles/nds.html Don't expect much from them. The NDS is a very low powered system. It doesn't emulate much very well. Thanks, I thought it might be worth asking here, since I haven't found many good emu for the ds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Dart Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) Turbografx, Genesis, and possibly GameGear/Master System have decent emulators on the NDS. I don't have mine with me so I can't give you specific emu names. 2600 works alright, but the ROM selection/list screen doesn't behave 100%. edit: Nitrografx and jenesis, I think that's two of 'em. Edited May 22, 2012 by Rex Dart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monzamess Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 DS emulators for many 8-bit systems are decent, especially NES and Gameboy. If you want portable emulation for newer systems, get a PSP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Colecovision and neo-geo are great, the Atari 8bit one is slow, the zx spectrum is ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robocop2 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Nitrografix was pretty decent. The genesis emu however was terrible the screen is so stretched that it almost made the games unplayable for me at least. The nes emu with the rewind feature was cool and StellaDs was well interesting since it ran so slow that the music was very slow. I thought it was a cool effect but odd nonetheless. I bought a psp and haven't looked back though. The difference in capabilities are worlds apart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 How about NES emulator that plays "Mike Tyson's Punch Out" correctly? I don't remember which one I've been using, but unfortunately, that great game is garbled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Dart Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 The genesis emu however was terrible the screen is so stretched that it almost made the games unplayable for me at least. Stretched? Jenesis scrolls the screen. When the hardware you're using has a smaller screen resolution than the one you're emulating, you have to make allowances like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robocop2 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Maybe I miss worded that. But it's stil annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Dart Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Annoying, sure. Bad emulator? I don't think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaki Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) Most of Flubba's emus are good (I haven't really tried the NitroGrafx emu much): http://www.ndsretro.com/ndsdown.html S8DS is great, it emulates the Sega Master System (and the SG-1000, etc), Game Gear, and Colecovision. It even supports the 3D SMS games if you have red/blue glasses. NES DS is obviously pretty nice, and LameBoy (though the Goombas on the GBA is better for non-Color games). I assume you've already got those, so I'm not hunting down the links. jEnesisDS is pretty good, but it depends on the game: http://www.workingde...s/jenesisds.php His SMS emulator is a bit outdated compared to S8DS, but runs okay if you have any reason not to use the alternative. ZXDS works pretty great, there's lots of neat games for it (I had never gotten into the ZX Spetrum until DS homebrew): http://zxds.raxoft.cz/ DSx86 is a good, in-progress DOS emulator. It still needs a lot of work, but a lot of games work great already: http://dsx86.patrickaalto.com/ MinivMacDS is a surprisingly good Macintosh Pro emulator, but I think his site is dead now. Then there are also interpreters, like DreamZZT and SCUMMVM. I would love to be able to emulate Atari 8 bits, ... 2600 and it would be nice to do Amiga, ST, SNES ... Sorry to disappoint you =) Though there are other commercial emulators/ports that I haven't mentioned (Atari 2600, Intellivision, arcade, etc). Edited June 30, 2012 by Asaki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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