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DS development > Emu for Mac? to speed up the dev cycle

#81783 - SeanMon - Tue May 02, 2006 2:48 am

Are there any DS emulators for the Mac, or any plans for one? It would greatly reduce the annoying delay in testing small changes in the code->compile->copy to CF card->run->repeat cycle.

Otherwise, I might have to buy an Intel Mac and run (oh no!) Windows.
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#81784 - dustin - Tue May 02, 2006 3:01 am

I agree a mac emulator would be a great help. I imagine the closest thing currently is DeSmuMe what with it being open source and having a linux port.
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#81854 - thoduv - Tue May 02, 2006 2:47 pm

I think my GTK version of Desmume can be built on Mac (but x86 ones) ... Can someone try ?

#81869 - Two9A - Tue May 02, 2006 4:13 pm

There is also DSemu-ng; the last source package (January) built and ran fine under OSX, as far as I remember. Of course, it doesn't do much once it compiles and runs, but that's a matter of functionality.

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#81965 - HyperHacker - Wed May 03, 2006 3:23 am

I doubt there's a lot of Mac users here. What'd be helpful is a good cross-platform emulator.

#81976 - tepples - Wed May 03, 2006 4:03 am

What would be even better is an accurate emulator, regardless of platform. But if you're worried about the musical CF cards issue, once someone gets an HTTP client/.nds loader going on the DS, you'll just have to turn on the Apache HTTP Server that you already have.
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#82071 - SeanMon - Wed May 03, 2006 9:21 pm

tepples: brilliant!
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#82073 - Dwedit - Wed May 03, 2006 9:33 pm

What if someone made a special type of cable that plugs into a CF slot, and could be switched between two devices? Sorta like a Y adapter...
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#82097 - josath - Thu May 04, 2006 12:20 am

you could always try something like: http://darwine.opendarwin.org/
i dunno how well it's gonna work though. i've had some success with regular wine & dualis.

#82142 - SeanMon - Thu May 04, 2006 4:30 am

How fast is your processor and what type is it (ppc I assume); how much RAM do you have; and what kind of performance did you get out of running a DS emulator inside a (non)Windows emulator (WINE Is Not an Emulator)?

I have a dual 1.8 GHz G5 with 2 Gigs of RAM. Think it'll run?
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