Fast NDS Emulator for ARM32/PSVita
This runs most games, however consider:
- 3D rendering
- Polygons and their textures are drawn, however no lighting, any other shading (e.g. toon) nor shadow volumes are implemented
- Games which swap screens every frame for displaying 3D on both screens at the same time, will flicker heavily
- 2D rendering is mostly complete
- Mosaic and some window objects (you will see black screens or silhouettes) are not implemented
- ARM7 HLE will not work with most games
- Disable it if certain games don't boot further, get struck, crash or have any issues
- There are other emulation modes like PartialHle or PartialSoundHle. You can pick them if full HLE breaks anything
- Auto frameskip is always used
- Games will feel choppy, you will most likely hover around 15 fps, even if they run at full game speed
- No scanline rendering, thus games that update VRAM mid frame will not render correctly
- Not many games do this, however games that do use it for scrolling texts
- Grab the latest vpk from releases
- Install
libshacccg.suprx, follow this guide - Install
kubridge.skprxfrom https://github.com/bythos14/kubridge/releases - It's strongly recommend to overclock your vita to 500MHz
- Create the folder ux0:data/dsvita and put your roms there
- They must have the file extensions
*.nds
- They must have the file extensions
- Install Vitasdk
- Install cargo
- Install cargo vita
RUSTFLAGS="-Zlocation-detail=none -Zfmt-debug=none" cargo vita build vpk -- --release
- NooDS was used as reference. A lot of code was taken from there.
- melonDS for ARM7 HLE implementation and jit optimizations.
- DesmumePSPExperimental for ARM7 HLE implementation.
- pokediamond for ARM7 HLE implementation.
- DSHBA Copied some PPU hardware acceleration implementation (Thanks for xiro28 linking me the repo)
- vitaGL 2D/3D hardware acceleration wouldn't be possible without it
- Tonc GBA PPU documentation
- GBATEK GBA/NDS documentation
- kubridge For fastmem implementation
- @TheIronUniverse for livearea assets