NesDS 14/06/2007 Released

[wraggster]

Loopy (http://www.cs.utah.edu/~tew/nesDS/) has released a new version of his Nes emulator for the Nintendo DS.

Heres whats new:

Update:
DLDI support added (6/14/2007)

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[Homerun]

I prefer Nester over this....
Does it work better than Nester?

Well Super Mario Bros 1 takes you to the Minus World every time >_>.

[Sir_Voe]

Thank you, Been waiting for this for a while. Saving works fine on my slot 1 card now. BTW, The minus world thing on SMB has to do w/ an odd dump of the game. I was able to find one that doesn't do that.

[Homerun]

Thank you, Been waiting for this for a while. Saving works fine on my slot 1 card now. BTW, The minus world thing on SMB has to do w/ an odd dump of the game. I was able to find one that doesn't do that.

Oh kk I'll try and find one :eek:

[paul1991]

so, do i just put my roms in a folder with the name "NES". Im still using the version that has to compile them into a single nesds.nds file.

[zauberer]

This is way better than Nester, I wanted to Nester be the best...

This is what I was waiting, DLDI!!

[Homerun]

This is way better than Nester, I wanted to Nester be the best...

This is what I was waiting, DLDI!!

So did I but I still use it for SMB. NES DS Hates my SMB Copy :(

[kiariki]

Thank you, Been waiting for this for a while. Saving works fine on my slot 1 card now. BTW, The minus world thing on SMB has to do w/ an odd dump of the game. I was able to find one that doesn't do that.

You got battery saving working? I tried Zelda out and it didn't save didly squat.
:/

[RV2006]

This isn't much different to the last version for me...
The DLDI patches, but the touch screen controls don't work properly on my R4...

[Sir_Voe]

You got battery saving working? I tried Zelda out and it didn't save didly squat.
:/

Yeah, battery saving works for Zelda 1 and 2. Make sure you save in game first, then use "Save SRAM".

[TeenDev]

damn, its been since 2005 that this was updated...

[souLLy]

now this supports file browsing it's easily one of the best emulators on the ds. I just completed life force salamander using this, awesome stuff. I love the rewind/fast forward feature too, it lets you retake the same life again if you lose on a level :)

Is there some kind of interlacing used as well to fit it onto the screen? it looks very smooth, i'd love to see this used in something like lameboy too

[goofy00]

Is anyone else having the problem I am? I have an M3 Simply, and I have save state successfully with about 3 or 4 games, when I try to save with others, it does not work, then if I try to load a new rom, it locks up and displays a msg about the r4/m3 not working? anyone else get this or know how to fix it?

[Steely]

Mine doesn't save right. Whenever I press "save SRAM", it displays "R4DS - revolution for the DS failed", or something like that, like goofy00.

[mmochel]

Perhaps someone would like to post some instructions as this does not seem to do anything when loaded.
Do the roms go in a seperate folder?
As there is no readme I have no idea what to do with it.

[voteforpedro36]

Make sure (all of you) DLDI patched it. And SRAM saving won't work on the R4, use the regular one.

[Sir_Voe]

SRAM saves work fine on my R4.

[toymin80r]

Well Super Mario Bros 1 takes you to the Minus World every time >_>.

Hey homer, you just have a crappy rom man, dl a clean rom, not a modded one.

[jackal27]

How do you Save SRAM?? Is there a menu on the bottom screen? I don't get the menu if there is.

[DanTheManMS]

I prefer Nester over this....
Does it work better than Nester?

Well Super Mario Bros 1 takes you to the Minus World every time >_>.

Not at all. NES DS is better than NesterDS for nearly all games, as it doesn't require frameskip to maintain fullspeed. It also has fast-forward and rewind capability, in addition to save support.

For SMB, just hold A while pressing Start or find a good copy of the game.


so, do i just put my roms in a folder with the name "NES". Im still using the version that has to compile them into a single nesds.nds file.

Just DLDI patch the file without compiling games into it and it should give you a file browser where you can select the *.nes file from your card.


Is there some kind of interlacing used as well to fit it onto the screen? it looks very smooth, i'd love to see this used in something like lameboy too

If you touch the screen to bring up the menu and go to the Display area, you'll find various scaling options. You can change the scaling amount by touching horizontally, while touching vertically changes the location of the screen when you've unscaled it to the point that it's larger than the DS screen. You can also choose between Flicker blending and o-lerp (replacing the o with that symbol), with most users preferring the o-lerp.

Jackal27, just touch the screen to bring up the menu.

I haven't tested this build extensively, but it's on my to-do list.

[turnerl]

Thankyou, great release!

[ACID]

how do you patch the games there is no read me file :(

[DanTheManMS]

It's standard DLDI patching. Read the sticky in this forum to learn what DLDI is and how to patch with it.

[RibStabsHeart]

Anyone with a Kensington MicroSD card get this to work? I need to try it, but I know the previous builds wouldn't do save states or SRAM. Anyone check it?

[RibStabsHeart]

Holy SHIT! IT WORKS!

If you have a Kingston micro SD card and couldn't save SRAM or States before, IT WORKS NOW WITH DLDI!

Loopy, this is amazing. Could you fix up SNESDS with DLDI real quick too?

[x999x]

Patched and auto patched with the new 1.10 R4 firmware, and I still can't get this to save.

I am receiving errors after I try to save to sram.

You can check this on your R4 by starting Zelda, making a character and then saving to sram. Now click "Load Rom" and you'll see an error message regarding your Sram save just before your DS locks up and requires a reboot.

[pizzatacoman]

DAMN, This won't work with the damn Games n' Music.

[DanTheManMS]

pizzatocoman, try the new DLDI file that Chishm made for the GnM, available at the DLDI Wiki (Google for it).

[phantal]

Hey homer, you just have a crappy rom man, dl a clean rom, not a modded one.

I'm sorry, but you're mistaken. I distinctly remember getting to minus world on my NES when I was a kid. I was using a plain old "Super Mario Bros" game cartridge (not the Duck Hunt one), not one of the carts that comes with many games on one cart, I was not using any special tools such as Game Genie, etc.

I seem to remember there being a letter to Nintendo Power about it from a user describing how to get to minus world, and that's what induced us to try it. After all, in the late 80s most people didn't have internet access, and those that did -- I kinda doubt they were talking about the latest thing in video games. Either way, we didn't know what the internet was, and yet my brother & I still heard about it as kids.

So, those of you who don't believe minus world is legitimate, I challenge you to find an NES and a copy of SMB1, and try getting to minus world. I think you'll be surprised.

Oh, and another thing. We used to try jumping over the flagpole all the time. I'd get very close, landing just on the other side of the ball on top of the flag, and it'd pull me back over and I'd slide down the flag pole. With a game genie you can do it, but you get a similar effect as to minus world -- you just run forever until you run out of time.

-Brian

[DanTheManMS]

Actually phantal, you're thinking of something else. There are improper dumps of Super Mario Bros.nes that don't initialize some settings correctly, and as such when you press Start to begin the game, it starts you off at world 0-1, which appears to be an underwater version of a castle or something (contains the bridge and key at the end). This is most likely what homer was talking about.

You can fix this by holding A as you press Start, or you can obtain a correct dump of the game.

The minus world you're thinking of is the one you access through world 1-2 by going through the bricks. That is indeed possible using NES DS and either the good or bad dump of the game.

[Shayne]

Hey everyone I got a question here, I'm like brand spanking new to this lol I just bought a cyclo ds evolution for my ds lite, I downloaded this nesds emulator and I can load my roms no problem, but how do I save my games with it? I can't create save files or? and I'm a freshie so gotta be polite with the big words lol ;)

[DanTheManMS]

Tap the touchscreen to bring up the NES DS menu. The "File" tab has the options for saving and loading.

[Fr0t3x]

It doesn't work with my R4 and my 1 gb Kingston microSD T_T

[DanTheManMS]

I've heard of NES DS not working with the built-in autopatcher. Use DLDIrc to patch it manually with the R4 DLDI file.

[Fr0t3x]

I've heard of NES DS not working with the built-in autopatcher. Use DLDIrc to patch it manually with the R4 DLDI file.
I did and it still doesn't work...
btw sorry for my bad english >>