This was what I used years ago. But the APK is too old now. https://github.com/hansoochan/DSdroid

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Just make sure to Pirate it, Paid emulator Devs on Android are greedy pieces of shit, many violate GPL Licenses just to make a quick buck, don’t give in, don’t give them money.

In general emulators that aren’t open source are also shady and should be avoided wherever possible because they:

  1. Can be Malicous
  2. Might use SDK material (not something we care about but it can be used against them).
  3. May violate GPL or contain stolen code from others’ work, which is extremely scummy.
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14 points

If it helps at all, Drastic DS is developed by Exophase, the developer behind the gpSP emulator, which is open source. Drastic is safe, and has for years been the only decent choice for Android as far as performance goes.

That said, from what I’ve just found, they’ve dropped support for Drastic, so pirating it is a good idea regardless.

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7 points

They dropped support and did not open source it? Damn

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Many mobile emulator Devs are like that unfortunately, no desire to improve things for the emulation community, AetherSX2’s dev was like that as well, though he went a step further and sold to a Chinese dev team who put ads and malware in it.

There is no valid excuse for locking down an Emulator, it’s either to hide the fact that they used SDK material or because they want to sell it later, either as a product to you or sell it to another Dev team (can’t easily do that with open source as it’ll be forked and the buying dev will be labelled shady or bad by the community). Saying “to prevent plagarism” is a Bullshit excuse because as well, Android did and still does have a thriving open source community, they don’t do it to prevent plagarism, they do it for money or to hide their own plagiarism (SDK or copying GPL code).

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