Ds emulators
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[edit] Nintendo DS emulators
There exist a number of homebrew emulators for the Nintendo DS (i.e. emulators for the PC that run Nintendo DS Software). Although their developers are putting a lot of effort into their development, none of them can at the current time be used for serious development, because they lack features and/or are slower than the real DS. But some simple programs can be run on them, so you can start developing without having access to the hardware.
These emulators exist:
[edit] DSEmu / DSEmu-ng
DSemu was written by Imran Nazar 558 and is open source (BSD License). It works quite well and is the only emulator that can run under Linux with wine so far. For developers it has a debugger. Imran stopped development of DSemu for a time and it was continued by Chris Double, and is available for download from Chris Double's DSemu page.
Imran has also started development of 'dsemu-ng' (development stopped), the next generation of DSemu. This is open source and cross-platform, capable of building on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
[edit] Dualis
Dualis is an open source DS Emulator by Michael Ollanketo (Mic). It is still lacking arm7 emulation. The homepage has some interesting hardware info, too.
[edit] iDeaS
iDeaS is a freeware DS emulator by Lino Maglione.
[edit] DeSmuME
DeSmuME is an open source emulator under active development. It was originally developed by Yopyop and moved to an open-source project for legal reasons. It runs some homebrew and supports both CPUs, but currently does not support 3D.
[edit] No$GBA
The DS emulator began as a Game Boy Advance emulator but now supports Nintendo DS emulation including 3D.
[edit] Ensa AB0 ta
This emulator was developed by Nintendo as part of the offical SDK and is not legally available if you aren't an official developer.
It can use Direct3D rendering for faster display, it doesn't have localization options.
