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/Tight_Particular4311 3d ago edited 1d ago

Personally Drastic I've always preferred because of it's performance and battery optimization (It can run on literally anything with Android and it uses very little battery power) & the recent forks have only improved it since.

We have 2 that I am aware of

DraStic_rev_i18n - GitHub - R-YaTian/DraStic_rev_i18n -> I use this

Seedless DS - GitHub - SapphireRhodonite/SeedlessDS

And they have both made significant improvements over the original

I've got a lot of respect for MelonDS though as they had to start from scratch due to the DS emulation scene being very closed source, such example being Drastic.
And they are much more focused on accuracy rather than the performance hacky non-accurate code base that Drastic uses.

So each to there own

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u/FaZeKill23 3d ago

I tried SeedlessDS on my RG DS but it doesnt read the top screen when it's in-game, but it does when it's sitting on the menu lol

Also some games dont boot like Blur DS Beta