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It comes with a stylus for the touch-sensitive screen. It has features on sound and touchscreen ability. It works well for Homebrew and some commercial games. DESmuME - An emulator for the DS version of Nintendo, DESmuME runs for Mac OS X.

Nds4ios was created by InfiniDev, a joint development group with many. It runs many of the original games but, depending on the power of your device, not all may run at full speed. The original version, nds4ios, is a Nintendo DS emulator and a port of the multi-platform DeSmuME 0.9.10 for iOS. INDS is a derivation of the previous Nintendo DS apps for iOS, nds4ios and Nitrogen. While it is still a work in progress, it has a pretty solid set of features:File Name: desmume-0.9.11-mac.dmg File Size: 7.48 MB System: Nintendo DS Version: 0.9.11 Downloads: 562,165 Not what you are looking for Check out our Mac emulator sectionDescription. Nintendo DS Emulator for Mac OS XMelonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation.

In practice, however, there is an issue that kept us from enabling that feature: when it's enabled, the DSi launcher crashes when launching a DS game, while they would otherwise run fine (albeit with the full 16MB RAM instead of the 4MB they might expect).As explained in GBAtek, nocash ran into the same issue:SCFG_EXT9.bit14-15 affect the Main RAM mapping on ARM9 and ARM7 side (that, at least AFTER games have been booted, however, there's a special case DURING boot process: For NDS games, the firmware switches to 4MB mode on ARM9 side, whilst ARM7 is still relocating memory from the 16MB area at the same time - unknown how that is working exactly, maybe ARM7 isn't affected by SCFG_EXT9 setting until ARM7 has configured/disabled its own SCFG_EXT7 register).The basic process of the loader is as follows: the ARM9 syncs with the ARM7 via IPCSYNC, then both CPUs run through lists of memory areas to copy or clear, then the ARM9 changes the main RAM size if required. In theory, not a very difficult thing to implement. The RAM size register is mainly used to restrict the accessible main RAM to 4MB before launching a DS game. I felt like looking at another of the known DSi-mode issues: the fact that we currently don't implement the RAM size register in SCFG_EXT9. The issue was another unimplemented AES feature, and was fixed in melonDS 0.9.3.Sometimes I wish all issues were this simple.

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The ARM9 code is running in main RAM, and the ARM7 has a bunch of main RAM regions to copy and clear: as EXMEMCNT is set to give priority over main RAM to the ARM7, the concurrent accesses are slowing down the ARM9. Then, another test determined that, infact, on hardware, the RAM size change isn't applied until the ARM7 has cleared all its memory regions.We then added code to measure how long each side takes to complete its tasks, and it turns out that the ARM9 takes much longer than expected. My first tests were to see if there was any kind of secret register altering main RAM mapping somehow, but there was none. Oh and the ARM9 caches are disabled when the loader is running, so they don't come into play here.So I made a homebrew that reproduced the loader code: same ASM code, same memory regions, same everything. The RAM size gets changed instantly on both sides, and there's nothing fancy about memory mapping either. As a result, the ARM9 changes the main RAM size while the ARM7 is still clearing regions, causing it to overwrite the ARM9's code, and you guess how this goes: kaboom.Yet, the same code works fine on hardware.I had already experimented with the RAM size register, to try and find out if there's anything fancy about it, but there's nothing special at all.

This goes hand in hand with emulation of the SOUNDBIAS register, too. There are multiple interpolation types to choose from, so you can see which one you like best.We also added a setting to optionally degrade the audio output to 10-bit, like the actual DS, for more authentic experience. Depending on how good your game's samples are, you may see an improvement in audio quality. We also added support for touchscreen devices (tablets etc).On the emulation side, we added support for audio interpolation, as an optional emulation improvement.

Last but not least, the DSi title manager allows you to easily install your DSiWare titles to your emulated NAND.A ROM info dialog has also been added under System -> ROM Info.There's also the usual slew of bugfixes and other little additions, you can check the changelog for the full list.For the eventual 1.0 release, we also want to make melonDS less obtuse all around: providing user-selectable paths for savefiles and such, BIOS/firmware substitutes atleast for DS mode, less obtuse DLDI support, etc.22 comments (last by Abhijit Ghosh) | Post a commentIt's no secret that melonDS's DSi mode needs some love, but there are just so many things to do with melonDS.One of the recurring complaints is that, when running in DSi mode, touchscreen input is off, requiring the user to recalibrate the touchscreen, while this doesn't happen in DS mode.Reason for that is that on the DS (and DSi), the touchscreen hardware doesn't return pixel coordinates, but raw digitizer readings. It is also possible to boot DSi games and homebrew directly now, although this feature is still experimental. Namely, touchscreen calibration is now automatically patched in DSi mode, eliminating the need for a recalibration. Hell, we even managed to make the DS play a song solely by regularly changing SOUNDBIAS.There have been several improvements to DSi mode too.

Easy peasy.However, in DSi mode, it's another story. When booting, melonDS also patches the user's firmware data with its own adequate calibration data, so that no recalibration is required and the touchscreen Just Works(tm). It uses its own conversion, basically just multiplying the touchscreen pixel coordinates by 16 to make decent 'raw' coordinates. Every touchscreen digitizer is going to have a slightly different range, which is why users have to calibrate their touchscreen.MelonDS makes up for that in a very simple fashion.

After taking care of all the details like SHA-1 hashes and whatnot, the initial issue was covered: the DSi-mode touchscreen Just Worked(tm), with no recalibration needed, just like its DS-mode counterpart.With this proof of concept being a success, I took it further:13 comments (last by ^~^) | Post a commentApologies for the slow Summer! We don't have air conditioners in the melonDS HQ. I wrote code to do that with the DSi NAND, taking care of encryption transparently, and bam, I had a viable base for NAND manipulation.I then wrote code to access the user settings files inside the NAND, and patch the touchscreen calibration data there. It is meant to be used to access storage media such as SD cards on embedded devices, however it is trivial to make it work on a FAT volume contained within an image file. Not exactly trivial to deal with.I was shown fatfs, which is basically a lightweight FAT driver. Thing is, it's less easy to access the data there: the NAND is mostly a FAT volume with an encryption layer.

The reason the DS does no interpolation is most likely due to how its mixer hardware works, but obviously as an emulator we can ignore these constraints and do a better job.It's also noting that, as far as melonDS is concerned, there are two parts we need to take care of: the DS mixer and the audio output.In the DS, the mixer is driven by the system clock, like nearly everything else. DS games may have downsampled audio to save on space and bandwidth, and the DS mixer doesn't perform any interpolation, which can lead to rough sounding samples. Actually, I had implemented it in DeSmuME back then, and due to the way DeSmuME's mixer works, it was quickly done.So I figured I would give it a try in melonDS.The basic idea behind audio interpolation is to smooth out the audio samples as they're being upsampled. Audio interpolation is well within these bounds. My general policy for emulation improvements is that they should allow for keeping the accurate code paths, and they shouldn't add too much complexity to the code.

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