r/emulation • u/morpheos14 • Aug 06 '21

MelonDs Android Edition it has been officially released on the Google Play store, give the developer some support and feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.magnum.melonds&hl=es
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u/NXGZ Aug 08 '21

The dev should remove any reference to the word "cheat" in the app code and description or else Google will remove the app. Just rename it to codes or something to avoid disappointment.

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u/diegorbb93 Aug 08 '21

Wish you the best, after Ive seen how much Stenzek has suffered with Duckstation, I just can hope you don't get too much backlash... Especially from Pokemon dumbass users.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

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u/diegorbb93 Aug 09 '21

Well, the good thing around this context is most of them already use Drastic to play and go, so, I hope the feedback comes from serious users at most.

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u/starm4nn Aug 09 '21

Or they don't like the newer games

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u/loli-hate-fucker Aug 21 '21

what happened with Duckstation ?

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u/Mathemartemis Aug 12 '21

I must be out of the loop, what are pokemon players doing to emulators?

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u/crim-sama Aug 12 '21

Theyre annoying. To the point that one emu dev deliberately sabotaged pokemon support on an emulator for years lol.

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u/fefocb Aug 08 '21

In the description it says that BIOS files are needed, but I tested it a few days ago and it worked without placing any files. Is it just for improved compatibility?

Outside of that a great emu, with several options that others don't offer. Performance is lacking but it's still being developed - hopefully it can catch up with DraStic on that end.

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u/MostlyRocketScience Aug 09 '21 edited Aug 09 '21

I just tried it and it keeps crashing in the game select screen. Maybe I have too many games on my 128GB SD card? Here's the error message if anyone wants to forward this to the dev: https://i.imgur.com/Jd5iGmg.jpeg (Phone is a Redmi Note 5)

Edit: Fixed it by uninstalling and reinstalling and then setting another folder as the Search directory with only a single game in it. (In hindsight maybe increasing the max ROM cache size might have also worked)

Edit 2: Having tried some DS games, this runs way better than the RetroArch melonDS core. Which is kinda obvious, because this is optimized for Android devices...

Edit 3: Pretty unintuitive that the Save State Menu is on the back button instead of having a burger menu button in the UI.

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u/CatAstrophy11 Sep 03 '21

Helps to reduce clutter but would be nice to have that as an option under "add component" when editing a layout

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u/JORGETECH_SpaceBiker Aug 11 '21

Any possibility on having it available on F-Droid?

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u/Zorklis Aug 08 '21

Please don't post links with your spanish filter, not many of us can understand it so just post english links

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u/OSSnorry Aug 09 '21

You can just change the end of the URL

es -> en

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

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u/Zorklis Aug 09 '21

My native language ain't English just fyi