This was what I used years ago. But the APK is too old now. https://github.com/hansoochan/DSdroid
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.
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).
Yeah I’m fairly certain exophase just charged for Drastic because they knew it was leagues better than every single open source emulator for Nintendo DS on the Arm platform, and people absolutely would pay for it.
I mean, I guess it’s fair for people to charge for their work. But I do have to wonder if the entire project was novel, Y’know?
