This was always an impressive emulator - it was originally made for the Open Pandora (an ARM-based mini-computer not much bigger than a DS). It’s always been free for that - it’s just, you know, you’d have to own an Open Pandora (I do!)
Previously paid Nintendo DS emulator app on Android goes free (DraStic DS)
Submitted 8 months ago by Dnew10@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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freamon@endlesstalk.org 8 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also free for Raspberry Pi and runs really well on it.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you happen to know if there are packages or downloads for it. I was looking to archive it
owen@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Damn that machine seems awesome. and its successor Pyra seems petty damn cool too
freamon@endlesstalk.org 8 months ago
Yeah it was pretty nifty in lots of ways. Loads of emulators, of course, and doing stuff like compiling apps directly on the device itself was neat.
Frustrating in lots of other ways too, though. I don’t think the Pyra ever really got off the ground, unfortunately.
atocci@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Dang, I just bought it 10 years ago too. Should’ve waited.
k_rol@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
They probably have a price adjustment policy
TwinTusks@bitforged.space 8 months ago
Same, bought it a decade ago, well worth it.
TwinTusks@bitforged.space 8 months ago
I am always amazed at its official forum. The dev has tight control over it, each post need to be approved by him in order to post, there are many threads that are years old on the front page mainly due to the fact that the dev didn’t approve new response.
Case in point, there was a update a while ago that moves the default save folder to another location, many user had posted threads asking solution, without any resolution, I have also faced this issue few months back and finally tracked it down, decided to post it and can’t.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah the dev has always been an asshole. Drastic is great but he’s terrible.
stackPeek@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just bought it one month ago 😭
ripcord@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And you didn’t lose anything here
CluckN@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Making it free seems like admitting guilt
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 8 months ago
What guilt?
CluckN@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nintendo destroyed Bowser’s life when they discovered he was charging for his SD card hacks. Charging for an emulator puts a huge target on your back.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Doesn’t work nearly as well as citra in my experience, but I’m using pretty low powered hardware too.
Giooschi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Citra is a 3DS emulator, this is a DS one, how are you comparing them?
Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Perhaps they misread, at least I did
bruhduh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Waiting for eggns to become free
Slayer@infosec.pub 8 months ago
It is
bruhduh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Didn’t know, i thought if you want to use pro version then you gotta pirate, good to know
yamanii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Huh, is this why it was suddenly ported to the Miyoo Mini on the new OnionOS version? Was very surprised when I saw it because I thought it was closed source.
lightnegative@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hey, I bought this back in the day.
It’s a great piece of software, cool to see it open sourced so it can live on despite Nintendo’s lawyers
VinS@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Well, can’t find it and they talk about open-sourcing since 2019. Not sure it’s still on the works.
Teknikal@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Bought this a couple of months ago myself that said its probably a good thing it’s being open sourced I just have bad timing and bad luck in general when I buy things of the play store.
Just as an example I bought GTA Vice City and a few weeks later my phone updated to 14 and it hasn’t loaded or even seen an update since. So yeah avoid that one.
JASN_DE@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Someone got scared it seems.
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
It’s silly, all the legal precedence we have for emulators were for commercial offerings. If Nintendo wants to hit you with so many invalid lawsuits that you’re forced to fold then this certainly won’t stop them.
It’s just bullying and it’s going to keep happening until there’s laws in place protecting it.
Some of the best inventions in history came from people reverse engineering the work of others. If we want to keep moving forward then we can’t let companies bully people out of innovating. It’s shooting ourselves in the foot.
lud@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The thing is that we don’t know if the lawsuits are invalid.