DeSmuME PSP Unofficial Useless Edition - Nintendo DS Emulator for the PSP

I understand the novelty of seeing the DS being emulated on the PSP, but it's like running Windows 95 in Bochs on the PSP. It's cool to see it running but that's as far as it goes. Nothing useful can come out of it, except maybe finishing a game of solitaire. By the time DS emulation possibly reaches 15fps someone could've saved their money to actually buy a DS and a couple games...or flash cart. I'm not knocking any effort from the coders, it's just once something like this comes out all of a sudden people come out of the woodwork and are like "Yes finally!...wtf...this runs like crap. Why won't my game run? Why is it so slow? When will we reach full speed?" It hasn't been that bad...yet.

Stupid questions are inevitable but personally I find them amusing and they really don't hurt anyone. Watching people come out of the woodwork is part of the fun. I tried to make it obvious that it's slow and not get anyone's hopes up. You are supposed to own the console that you are running an emulator for, so even if a DS emulator was eventually created that could run some games at a playable speed, it's not going to replace your DS, it would just be an alternative and a novelty.

This is mostly something for developers to experiment with and with all the attention it brings, it may spark some coders interest and motivate them to do a total rewrite (doubtful it will happen any time soon but I can't see the future). I expect someone to do some minor optimizations within a few months but getting a commercial demo running at over 15 FPS would require more effort than most people would be willing to put into it.

This is great! yes it properly will never be full speed but its nice to have :)

if some one coded this from scratch it would work, i dont see a concrete reason why its not possible, look at deadaelus its great and the N64 is a better looking machine than the DS. (the reason the DS looks sharper is simply it has a smaller screen) however i feel that if Sternnen took a look into this he would be able to build it up, however as hes working on deadaelus i doubt that he would want to as it would be to much to ask for any coder

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Originally Posted by kjetil1991

have about making a emulator with ds bios like gpsp? then i think we would have got the speed =)

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the BIOS are built into the emulator..

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Originally Posted by xg917

the BIOS are built into the emulator..

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are they? i'm a noob but didn't we have to download the bios for gpsp? don't know how it's with this one though as i won't bother downloading it (and don't have a ds -.-)

for gpsp yes we needed to get the bios in order to use the emulator but for desmume the bios is built in with the eboot

it should be better the bios outside like gpsp

i dont think it would make a difference. an emulator made from scratch would make the difference and a dedicated coder would too..

meh... i can be wrong...