melonDS

Android port of melonDS, a DS and DSi emulator.

Missing Features

Local Multiplayer

DSi SD card support

Customizable button skins

More display filters

Performance

Performance is solid on 64 bit devices with thread rendering and JIT enabled, and should run at full speed on flagship devices. Performance on older devices, specially 32 bit devices, is very poor due to the lack of JIT support.

Integration with third-party frontends

It's possible to launch melonDS from third part frontends. For that, you will need to have the ROMs you want to launch already scanned by melonDS. Then, you can configure your third-party frontend with the following configuration:

Package name: me.magnum.melonds

Activity name: me.magnum.melonds.ui.emulator.EmulatorActivity

Parameters (choose one):

Intent data (preferred) - a URI of the NDS ROM (ZIP and 7z files are supported). Ensure read permission is granted

uri (deprecated) - a string with the SAF URI of the NDS ROM (ZIP and 7z files are supported)

PATH (deprecated) - a string with the absolute path to the NDS ROM (ZIP and 7z files are supported)

Info regarding save files

When launching ROMs from third-party frontends, if melonDS hasn't scanned that particular ROM previously, it won't be able to create the save file next to the ROM file if the option "Save next to ROM file" is enabled in the settings or the save file directory is not set. Instead, melonDS will create a save file in Android/data/me.magnum.melonds/files/saves