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you really cant be serious in believing that any of those consoles can be emulated on ds. firstly like it or loathe it the psp is much more powerful than the ds and before you think I am a sony fanboy or something it should be noted that I own and love both.
emulating a mips r4000 at 333mhz on a couple of low clocked arm cpu's is laughable.
as for the jaguar well on the pc jag emulation requires around 2ghz of proccessing power to run full speed.
and well the sony playstation. lets see now. the psx if memory serves me right was capable of around 200 000 realtime polygons per second and the ds is only capable of around 120 000. in comparisson the psp is estimated at around 12 000 000 and xbox around 75 000 000.
also the ds only has 656k of video ram while the psx had a full megabyte.

sorry to burst your bubble but 1timeuser was correct.

maybe you could hope for a decent nes emu on the ds one day as I doubt you will be seeing much more than that emulated.

i got a jag, its wicked :D as for psp and psx emu on ds... mer, oh well, i kinda knew that for the psp, just thought the psx would be possible.

anyway, lets just PREY that duke nukem 3d makes it. hexen heritic and doom have/ are being ported, so duke3d with user map/ mod suport would be the dogs bollocks. i would LOVE to play my own episodes on the bus and if permited pass on my maps to other people via the Wi-fi.

maybe DSLinux would open the door for so much more porting. and handheld web on the DS. saving small homebrews onto your sd card.



hmmm... not long now!!! :D

your right the jag was fun. maybe someone could whip up a homebrew version of tempest 2000 for the ds. imagine that with the touchscreen, it would give a new element to the already awesome game.

King, you can't be serious, i love my DS but i know that it's not powerful enough to emulate any of those well enough to make it make worthwhile.

Also, do you not realise how much work is required? you think the main problem is where the buttons go? lol.

Maybe you're aiming a bit high :p

some of you just arnt realising how difficult it is.. It takes MULTIPLE times more power to emulate a system. and someone mentioned surely jaguar could be done.. Jaguar is such a complicated machine that no emulator is even close to emulating it completely, and especially not without a gigahertz machine.

Next thing is.. your not using your Intel or Athalon mainstream processor's in these... these machines work completely differant from whatever your sitting at right now. The xbox is a bad example because it used a Celeron processor. Actually an Xbox is just an old computer with 64 megs of crappy memory and everything onboard.

PSX will never make its way as a playable emulator to the DS.
Neither will many of the other systems because of their complicated mechanics or just the lack of an emulator to port.

I doubt that the DS can actually software emulate a GBA- which dosnt actually tell you much... But its just another point.

(FOR PEOPLE WHO DONT KNOW)
The GBA is not emulated on a DS. The DS actually has two machines inside it in a sence.

the jag emulation really does take about a two gig machine to run full speed. trust me I know.
the xbox was used as an example of how different all these machines really are.
I think you may be slightly misinformed with the xbox being stock standard though as by that logic a gamecube is nothing more than a underpowered apple g4.
all consoles are different though and I have had to explain why system x connot be emulated on system y too many times now on various boards.
ultimately a souped up pc will always give you the best experience with emulation.
if anyone has any other queeries I have made a topic on the psp board to deal with this.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=11706

Lets all be honest here, I'm sitting here with my PSP and erm...well the emulators on it are pretty much unfinished, my snes and nes ones are buggy as hell, my c64 one crashes all the time, so...where do we go with the DS???

well the DS is still young, as soon as we realise that im talking total nonsense about all the emulators the faster we can move on a do something. im sure LOADS more emulators will pop up and the DS will be the choice for mobile Homebrew, unless you can be botherd to get a GP32. i know im not :D

and tempest 2000 DS would Rock! maybe even better if we get something like Hover Strike and Synicate! man i love them games, i still play them now! i think the best item was the replicator. stick a man in a car with the replicaor as there weapon and you soon get a HUGE mob of people in your mod. the best ones are the cops coz they... have guns... as you can guess and they help you out.

but still... Ngage DS??

or atleast SOMEONE do a Duke nukem 3D Port!!!

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Originally Posted by scrabbus

Lets all be honest here, I'm sitting here with my PSP and erm...well the emulators on it are pretty much unfinished, my snes and nes ones are buggy as hell, my c64 one crashes all the time, so...where do we go with the DS???

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that's less a power and issue and more to do with the fact that the psp is a new piece of hardware for devvers to get to grips with. Both the DS and PSP scenes are in thier infancy compared to the XBox/DC/GP32 scenes for example. It takes time for these emulators to go through speed tweaks, improvements and hardware specific enhancements. Give it some time.

how do the DS ones run? i havent been able to try it yet. but i plan on getting this
http://www.consoleplus.co.uk/product...pass-ds-bundle
is it worth it or is there a better one on there?