Drastic DS Emulator

[Diablohead]

Wait until you get your hands on a PS Vita. It will blow your mind!

The moment PSO2 gets an english release on vita i'm buying one just for that, lol. The pc japanese version is so fun.

To keep this on topic, this DS emulator sounds like it has most of the ground covered for ouya play, does the emulator allow you to manually resize the windows instead of just stretching it or stacking by default sizes? I would think the games would look a lot better if they did what the official gameboy player does and that is to give the game screen a big 20% frame which can display a picture or maybe some runtime info.

[Sluup]

3DS is the best handheld out right now, and to me, the games are much better than anything Ouya has to offer.

EDIT: Where do I get the BIOS? I cant find them anywhere D:

Meh, I guess. Maybe I just don't have the right games. Last game I bought was Revelations and I still play that game like crazy. Raid mode.
Maybe I'm just looking for the next best game, Animal Crossing and Project X Zone looks great but not really feeling the vibe to buy them. So I'm waiting for Smash Bros.

The bios I dumped them myself.

[oldpainless888]

To keep this on topic, this DS emulator sounds like it has most of the ground covered for ouya play, does the emulator allow you to manually resize the windows instead of just stretching it or stacking by default sizes? I would think the games would look a lot better if they did what the official gameboy player does and that is to give the game screen a big 20% frame which can display a picture or maybe some runtime info.

In short - yes.

[Victor Coleiro]

Guys, Drastic was developed for the Pandora by a Dev that goes by the handle Exophase. I have known him through the Pandora forum for a long time. You will find in depth threads there about Drastic.

It has been working for a while now on the Pandora and Exophase decided to port it with help from another Dev to Android. I had asked him at the time whether there will be an Ouya port, the answer was no, because of the touchscreen requirement.

Although, maybe if enough people asked him, he may change his mind and try and get it working with some kind of touchpad work around for touch games

[olijack]

As a FYI I just received an update through play store for drastic changes as follows

Version 2.1.1a:
- No longer requires BIOS/firmware (but will still use ones you've installed). ARM7 BIOS still needed for encrypted ROMs.
- Emulation of Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver is improved (confirmed playable start to finish)
- Some games w/save game problems should be fixed
- Removed bluetooth requirement, can now install on more devices
- Screen swapping now allowed in portrait mode
- Fixed glitches w/on-screen controller opacity set to 0
- Fixed 'Assorted' cheat folder causing a crash

Most prominent thing I noticed is no longer requires a bios/firmware unless an encrypted rom!

[zonatar]

I can't change the option, when i go to the option the only way to exit is to press the A button (which is back) and it doesn't save my change

[rushmore]

Too many touch needs for a lot of games for them to be playable. Games that require minimum touch for control or interface will be the most practical.

This is truly a touch centric game platform. Works great on my S4 and tablets. Easily the most impressive emu created to date.

[E1usive_Man]

Awwwww I tried it. Its cool. Runs well. wish there was an official OUYA port for easier menu navigation without using touch pad.

It does not feel right playing DS games on a big TV, feels odd. I will pass. Most games look very distorted like Mario. Metal slug 7 was nice though, but I prefer NEO.EMU arcade versions of those. Game console Emus for me.

It's really not that bad looking. It's better than looking at PS1 games. It's too bad you feel that way. I for one am loving this thing!

[rushmore]

How are they distorted? They have the correct ratio and scale on my four Android devices. Again the main issue will be no practical way to make touch centric games playable with a controller. Especially since most require simultaneously using touch and the controller.

[czoom]

It's really not that bad looking. It's better than looking at PS1 games. It's too bad you feel that way. I for one am loving this thing!

Its pretty good. I hate the touch controls though. Some games look and play well on a TV.

Can someone port this to use OUYA control at game menu screens?

I just hate the touch controls.