For the first time, the 'It just works' philosophy now extends to open source video game emulation on the Mac. With OpenEmu, it is extremely easy to add, browse, organize and with a compatible gamepad, play those favorite games (ROMs) you already own. The original version, nds4ios, is a Nintendo DS emulator and a port of the multi-platform DeSmuME 0.9.10 for iOS. It runs many of the original games but, depending on the power of your device, not all may run at full speed. Nds4ios was created by InfiniDev. Download DeSmuME - freeware Nintendo DS emulator by YopYop156. Some time has passed since the latest release of the DeSmuME, but the development has not stopped. With this new release comes brand new Cocoa frontend designed to make playing more pleasant for Mac OSX users. Also a number of important bug fixes have been implemented.
iNDS is a derivation of the previous Nintendo DS apps for iOS, nds4ios and Nitrogen.
The original version, nds4ios, is a Nintendo DS emulator and a port of the multi-platform DeSmuME 0.9.10 for iOS. It runs many of the original games but, depending on the power of your device, not all may run at full speed. nds4ios was created by InfiniDev, a joint development group with many members including popular GBA4iOS creator Riley Testut (@rileytestut), upcoming Nightingale app developer Michael Zhang (@malvix_) and PPSSPP iOS build manager Karen Tsai (@angelxwind), along with many others. iNDS, however, is mostly developed by William L Cobb.
iNDS supports all versions of iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch running between 8.1 and 9.2; except iPod touch 4, iPad 1, iPhone 3GS, and anything below those devices. This is because nds4ios’s emulation is powered by a threaded ARM interpreter. As a result, emulation is rather slow on older devices, like the iPhone 4s and below. nds4ios runs at nearly full speed on the iPhone 5 and above, and achieves full speed on devices using the A7-S5L8960X SoC (iPhone 5s, iPad Air, iPad mini Retina, and anything newer than these devices).
The emulator does not require bios to play but requires ROM images and no ROMs are provided - it is up to you to procure them. If you own any games, add them through iTunes Sharing or the “Open in” feature.
- Auto Save
- Dropbox Sync
- Frame Skip
- Control Settings
- Disable Sound
- Universal Support
- Overlay Pixel Grid
- Vibration
- Control Position
- Currently, emulation is powered by the DeSmuME threaded ARM interpreter and runs at nearly full speed on the iPhone 5 and above.
- Due to the need to mmap the entire ROM into memory, older devices with only 256MB of RAM are not supported. These devices include the iPod touch 4, iPad 1, iPhone 3GS, and anything below those devices.
Desmume For Mac
Nds Emulator Mac 2020
- Developer
- William L. Cobb
- Based on
- nds4ios by InfiniDev
- Website
- http://github.com
- Version
- Updated
- Size
- Copyright
- © 2015 William L. Cobb
- Compatibility
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Universal support for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch depending on device number.