I installed Ignited via SideStore. No Jailbreaking necessary. Not computer tether. SideStore can renew the side loaded emulator every 7 days when on WiFi. The iPhone is perfect for DS emulation with a stylus.

(Ignited is a fork of Delta with more options, and SideStore is a fork of AltStore, with no computer tether needed)

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As for stylus, I’m using this. It’s a capacitive stylus (works on iPhone, unlike apple’s pencil) but it’s battery powered to keep a thin point and high precision vs the rubbery knob stylus.

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I’m just at the beginning but I love the fresh gameplay and look and still get memories of Pokemon gold. I also recommend the Zelda on DS (Phantom Hourglass was awesome!!!)

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That’s awesome. Does it perform well? Last time I tried heart gold emulation it was so laggy and I couldn’t fix it and gave up. This looks really cool tho in tempted to try

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I’m on iPhone 14 Pro and it works flawlessly! Even has fast forward (I think 125% without JIT). The emulator even has microphone and lid closing functions for the games that use it.

Edit: it was also working on my iPhone X with no issues.

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Can you do that on Android?

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Yes. It’s even easier on Android. Look for RetroArch. It emulates a bunch of consoles.

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Thanks! But wow does its UI make my screen look much smaller than it is.

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I don’t know how it works in RetroArch, with Delta/Ignited you can change the skin which also manages the size and position of the screens. I even designed custom skins to play full screen with no controls with Zelda since you don’t need the abxy and arrow buttons to play.

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Mypizzaboy is the best android emulator tbh

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If retroarch is too much you can try Lemuroid. Lemuroid is a much simpler emulation app with a more straightforward GUI. It doesn’t come anywhere near the features or number of cores of retroarch but it supports most common retro systems.

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If you’re only interested in a few consoles you could try dedicated emulators.

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You can change scaling in options gear > user interface > appearance > menu scale factor

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Only since like ten years ago.

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Nah. Closer to 15 years since emulation was possible on Android.

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Best Android app for emulating DS in my experience is DraStic.

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Can confirm. I played so many games on DRaStic over the last few years. Zero issues.

Of course, some games are not well suited to a full touch screen, especially if they require quick coordination of both stylus and D-Pad. They are relatively few though - most games work great.

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that’s a really beautiful emulated skin, I wish ignited worked on android lol

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The emulation itself is melonDS packaged into an iOS app. It also does GameBoy, GBA, NES, SNES, and N64 (which works astonishingly well, going through PaperMario64 too)

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can melonDS actually look like that on android? I’ll have to go check it out asap

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