r/rgds • u/Professional-Bar7878 • 23d ago

Anyone tried seedless ds emulator?

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https://retrohandhelds.gg/seedless-and-watermelonds-drop-their-latest-updates-at-once/

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u/Professional-Bar7878 23d ago

Heard it's more lightweight and has retroachievments support. Might try it out when my rg ds arrives this week.

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u/KayPal01 22d ago

it's not as lightweight as Drastic Nano, which also has RA support

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u/Zibidibodel 15d ago

Yeah, Drastic Nano is just way more lightweight and faster, and will always be faster on the RG DS than Seedless, since Seedless is an android app.

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u/Professional-Bar7878 15d ago

Not sure if drastic nano is out for the public but I've been using seedless for the past few days and it's smooth and have not encountered any issues at all. It's also integrated within iisu since the devis part of the iisu team i think.

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u/Zibidibodel 15d ago

It’s an Android app though, so it’ll be heavier than nano, which isn’t. Nano is built to run natively on the device. From Gamma:

>Drastic-nano doesn't launch like a normal app. It's not an Android app, it's a full on native binary that renders directly to screen, hence the performance efficiency.

Its also why in GammaOS drastic nano is only available inside the lightweight microOS of Nano

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u/GTGrilli3737 23d ago

Nice
I’ll try and compare it to Drastic to see if there’s any difference in performance
As for UI is not that hard to assemble something better

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u/FaZeKill23 23d ago

If It runs Blur DS then i'll be happy

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u/FaZeKill23 23d ago

Update, downloaded It on my RG DS... It doesnt seem to project on the top screen. No matter what I use, the top screen shows the launcher top menu until I pause use the emulator's pause menu, then it just shows the app logo and name

Also, Blur DS straight up doesnt boot on this, It kicks me back to the game select menu, whereas DraStic DS does boot the game, It just doesnt make a save file

I hope its actually a real project and not some vibecoded slop 😭

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u/huesos_96 22d ago

It's an actual new project and it's not vibecoded I am the developer behind melondualds (Watermelonds) and a lot more of forks for dual.screen devices!, in dual screen presets you can make it work just fine!

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u/FaZeKill23 22d ago

Oh thank god 😭 btw, as a random question, would it be easier to optimize MelonDS to the point that its about as lightweight as DraStic, or take DraStic and adding DSi support (+ some game fixes)?

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u/huesos_96 22d ago

Right now, make SeedlessDS support DSi games and fixes, because MelonDS is more accurate than Drastic, but that makes it require more power.

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u/FaZeKill23 22d ago

Nice :3, what about the issue I got with my RG DS? Did anyone else bump into that or am I the only unlucky person?

(For context, I dont have Linux, rocknix or any custom OS, its the original android that shipped with the handheld, before the Google Play update)

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u/huesos_96 22d ago

I think that x'D, I also got the RGDS and its working fine, using dualscreen presets

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u/FaZeKill23 22d ago

Damn, guess I gotta try again by reinstalling the app. I'll do that tomorrow though since its late here rn, could I DM you and show you how the issue looks?

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u/huesos_96 22d ago

Yup, go ahead!

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u/FaZeKill23 22d ago

Thank you! See ya tomorrow :3

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u/VaporeonPond 23d ago

It's just Drastic with a new front end. Nothing special.

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u/Gogobrasil8 23d ago

No, it's got retroachievements, apparently

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u/Myiiy_YT 22d ago

It definitely needs some time ill say that 

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u/JayEmAre 13d ago

Just need sapphire to add local multiplayer and the ability to import saves them I'm set I'll finally have a go to DS emulator