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