nds4droid now available

Epicphone42 · Apr 11, 2011

Hello.

I downloaded the app, but I can't seem to find any Roms to play on it.

Could anyone tell me where to get some Roms? I would really appreciate it.

Pushwall · Apr 11, 2011

All games I tried are too slow for any fun even after tinkering with the settings. The Star Wars one is the best I tried but it needs just a tad more ooomph to it. I'm sure Ikari will keep tinkering with it so it gets better and better. A good start though and one that shows promise!

Pushwall · Apr 12, 2011

Okay Yoshi's Island runs rather well (frameskip 5, Experimental Mode checked). The only problem with Yoshi is when you load a saved game, the game has a frozen screen and you can't play (can still exit out though). So you have to start the game from the beginning every time.

AmneonX · Apr 12, 2011

I think that this guy definitely deserves props so far. I look forward to purchasing it when it works for the Galaxy Tab. Good work so far Ikari. By the way, I would recommend a different name, as when I first saw nds4droid, I thought of Zodtdd and psx4droid. I like AndroiDS.

xmr405o · Apr 12, 2011

AmneonX said:
I think that this guy definitely deserves props so far. I look forward to purchasing it when it works for the Galaxy Tab. Good work so far Ikari. By the way, I would recommend a different name, as when I first saw nds4droid, I thought of Zodtdd and psx4droid. I like AndroiDS.

That's what I was going to suggest not the name but to change the name. I like your suggestion for the new name.

mkc90 · Apr 13, 2011

Pokemon diamond and Pokemon Platinum it runs but is slow and i saw some improvements in the new release.
Ikari your doing a good job keep up the good work.

Also for the guys that cant run some roms they are maybe corrupted. Try redownloading from another source.

BTW im using my HTC EVO i have a question when this emulator hits its final stages are we stilll going to be able to run it with an android device with 1Ghz proccessor??
Or do we need a faster phone ??

Notter · Apr 14, 2011

Alright, i tried Yoshi's Island DS on the last version, and you're right, it's very playable.
considering the big improvement in just a week, i'm sure given time, it will run perfect.

I still couldn't get poke'mon Platinum/Heartgold to run on the Galaxy S though.
They're not corrupted, they work in an emulator on my PC.

nryan777 · Apr 14, 2011

I got heartgold and soulsilver to run on my evo..but they are so slow thats its almost unplayable. Its nice to know that they run at all though haha. And when I try to save it reboots my device..i dont know though if others have had that problem or if its just my phone though.

mkc90 · Apr 14, 2011

nryan777 said:
I got heartgold and soulsilver to run on my evo..but they are so slow thats its almost unplayable. Its nice to know that they run at all though haha. And when I try to save it reboots my device..i dont know though if others have had that problem or if its just my phone though.

I havent got a chance to try those 2 games but with the other pokemon games platinum and diamond i saved them it doesnt reboot. Also i tried pokemon black/white but doesnt work.

Falchion · Apr 14, 2011

I also tried Platinum and Heart Gold. Both worked although I haven't tried starting a game or saving anything yet.

crinklypaper · Apr 16, 2011

My hat is off to you for making a working NDS emulator for android. I would have no problem purchasing this app if it worked for the viewsonic gtablet. Someone mentioned earlier that the touch buttons don't work with this app on the gtablet. I was wondering if it works now? Or if there will ever be compatibility with the gtablet? I'd be awesome to play NDS games on a big screen.

AmneonX · Apr 19, 2011

Any word on he touch screen workingon the Galaxy Tab yet?

SupremeBeaver · Apr 19, 2011

Hi Ikari,

Thought is give some feedback. I have two games, Super Mario and Mario Kart. Both run like slide shows but thats ok for now i guess.

I think you should allow us to select a directory to find roms, that way it doesn't have to search and take up time every time you launch the app.

The touch screen on the bottom does not work. I don't know if you've implemented the touch screen functionality yet but for the two games I tried so far nothing happens.

Also since the game runs sooo slowly, it will be hard to tell if there will be any improvements when you release updates since there might be one or two fps improvements and our eyes can't detect it. So I suggest you include the option for a fps counter in the settings.

I tried the Tiger nds emulator as well and I find the performance very similar. I don't know if our devices this gen will ever be able to fully emulate the NDS but im sure hoping they can. Hopefully you don't only focus on just the dual core phones because there's plenty of us with single core phones. Im using a Desire HD which is still considered powerful.

Anyway i look forward to more updates and hopefully you can squeeze more performance out.

edit: forgot to mention something else. The save and load function is broken. It can be a nuisance when testing because I have to go through all the intros again each time play.. an I can't skip them.

Cheers

Notter · Apr 20, 2011

SupremeBeaver, in order to use the touch screen (as of now) you have to first hide the interface, by pressing the button on the top left.
this will make the bottom screen touch enabled.

xmr405o · Apr 20, 2011

Notter said:
SupremeBeaver, in order to use the touch screen (as of now) you have to first hide the interface, by pressing the button on the top left.
this will make the bottom screen touch enabled.

Thanks that did the trick. Lol. Touchscreen does work. Haha. All this time I didn't know.

Edit: Works good on my VS gtab. Pokemon Plat runs a little slow but it's playable.

SupremeBeaver · Apr 20, 2011

Notter said:
SupremeBeaver, in order to use the touch screen (as of now) you have to first hide the interface, by pressing the button on the top left.
this will make the bottom screen touch enabled.

Ah cool, thanks for that.

DoAndroidDream? · Apr 20, 2011

Can anyone confirm if The Dark Spire and Dragon Quest Rocket Slime work properly?

bradleyw801 · Apr 20, 2011

So, for those of you that have downloaded this and are using it, would say that even 1 or 2 games are "playable"? I don't mean, will they load, can you interact with them, etc.

I mean would you actually use this emulator to play them on a bus or a plane and have enough functionality to not be frustrated with the emulator?

N64oid got rate bombed by people complaining that not every rom under the sun worked, and they were paying $6 for it. So the developer pulled it from the market.

But my opinion was that even though I only found like 6 roms that it played well, it was worth $6 for those games.

I would gladly pay $6 if I could get even one or two useable games out of it.

Thanks for any feedback available.

BTW, I am running the Evo 4G, with UD3.3(similar to CM7), SavagedZen kernel, and overclocked to 1.2ghz.

SupremeBeaver · Apr 20, 2011

bradleyw801 said:
So, for those of you that have downloaded this and are using it, would say that even 1 or 2 games are "playable"? I don't mean, will they load, can you interact with them, etc.

I mean would you actually use this emulator to play them on a bus or a plane and have enough functionality to not be frustrated with the emulator?

N64oid got rate bombed by people complaining that not every rom under the sun worked, and they were paying $6 for it. So the developer pulled it from the market.

But my opinion was that even though I only found like 6 roms that it played well, it was worth $6 for those games.

I would gladly pay $6 if I could get even one or two useable games out of it.

Thanks for any feedback available.

BTW, I am running the Evo 4G, with UD3.3(similar to CM7), SavagedZen kernel, and overclocked to 1.2ghz.

Yes there is one game i tried which is somewhat playable. Yoshi's Island. I would guess it runs around 15 fps.. somewhere there. Hard to tell really but it runs much better than others i tried.

xmr405o · Apr 20, 2011

bradleyw801 said:
So, for those of you that have downloaded this and are using it, would say that even 1 or 2 games are "playable"? I don't mean, will they load, can you interact with them, etc.

I mean would you actually use this emulator to play them on a bus or a plane and have enough functionality to not be frustrated with the emulator?

N64oid got rate bombed by people complaining that not every rom under the sun worked, and they were paying $6 for it. So the developer pulled it from the market.

But my opinion was that even though I only found like 6 roms that it played well, it was worth $6 for those games.

I would gladly pay $6 if I could get even one or two useable games out of it.

Thanks for any feedback available.

BTW, I am running the Evo 4G, with UD3.3(similar to CM7), SavagedZen kernel, and overclocked to 1.2ghz.

N64oid runs more games at full speed than this emulator. In fact, most of the games that I cared about played great on my tablet. This emulator has the same potential as N64oid so that's why I decided to invest in it's development. Would I say that I got my investment back, I don't think so. None of the games I care about play at full speed yet but I don't believe they are unplayable.

Games that I have tried-

Brain Age- Slow (not playable)
Pokemon Plat and Pearl- A little slow (playable)
Mario Kart- Slow (playable)
Nintendo Dogs- doesn't work.

dvandam · Apr 22, 2011

Looks like this emulator is a little premature for my tastes, but from what I'm reading it certainly looks promising. Will be keeping an eye on this one.

shaolin95 · Apr 22, 2011

Honestly , at the speed this is going without sound, with all due respect, I expect a miracle for this to be playable at some point. N64 was awesome running compared to this and took a lot of heat.

smittyzz · Apr 24, 2011

My LG optimus v running 2.3.3 overclocked at 824mhz can load Pokemon Pearl probly at 3-6 fps its like a slide show of a game i want to.play so bad hahah. If poeple want a certain game tested I would be glad to test it. Hey my phone isn't the fastest but it runs it!

shaolin95 · Apr 25, 2011

Interestingly enough i got the nulldc android port for dreamcast that is no longer in development and even Crazy taxi was running faster than the best one on this emulator or DS...such a shame they guy stopped working on it...

I want all video game consoles ever created emulated!

187 · Apr 28, 2011

is there anywhere we can download nulldc port to android? the one the testers were given?

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