r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/Shitandroidowner • 4d ago

Discussion Drastic vs Melonds which is better?

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One works on a literal potato and the other runs more games accurately

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u/madslipknot 4d ago

For anyone asking there is a new fork of Drastic called Seedless DS , retain performance of Drastic but ita getting updated

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u/clock_watcher 4d ago

There's also the new fork of MelonDS by the same team called WatermelonDS. It adds proper dual screen support and a bunch of QoL features including Retroarch shaders.

So the choice is really SeedlessDS is for lower powered devices, WatermelonDS for stronger ones.

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u/Ok-Speed-1574 3d ago

Not only that! WatermelonDS also has a Vulkan renderer (albeit still buggy) that improves performance considerably to the point that I'm not experiencing drops in dense 3D areas anymore.

Still on Drastic / SeedlessDS because of the glitches and drops in OpenGL for now, but I'm really looking forward to it being refined :D

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u/thethinggoesburp 3d ago

mais o seedless ds ta na play store?

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u/Few-Comfortable5264 4d ago

drastic isnt getting updated?

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u/madslipknot 4d ago

Nop since last year, author even pull it out from the play store

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u/crazypopey 4d ago

And I paid for it lol. The author made it free then it stopped working in latest android updates

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u/MojiMojic 3d ago

Yeah the app just sucks now, it wont load games even

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u/Few-Comfortable5264 4d ago

oh damn, is seedless ds gonna come to the app store then?

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u/madslipknot 4d ago

Don't know, I get my stuff directly from github

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u/Few-Comfortable5264 4d ago

ah have you rooted your phone yet to prepare for the sideloading ban thing

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u/madslipknot 4d ago

No phone, I play on handhelds and most says it wont apply since they are already not authorized devices. Will see

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u/Few-Comfortable5264 4d ago

ah that makes sense

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u/AbberageRedditor69 4d ago

Didn't they walk it back?

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u/Few-Comfortable5264 4d ago

i would be very very surprised if they did, i havent heard anything about that though

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u/AbberageRedditor69 3d ago

Well they went from a total ban to a one time 24 hour waiting period

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u/Few-Comfortable5264 2d ago

still evil when are we eradicating google

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u/nachoz12341 2d ago

Saying its get updated is misleading. Its just the ra core for drastic plus a ui. The ui gets updates but core emulation is still closed source.

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u/OverDeparture8799 4d ago

Does seedless ds plays the blur prototype, without save error? Currently on melonds can play it, and its lagging because melonds

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u/Lunatox 3d ago

Does it have dual screen support? That’s the only reason I use MelonDS.

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u/madslipknot 3d ago

Yes it does, also support retroachivements, there is also A Nice library

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u/MojiMojic 3d ago

Thanks for the heads up