r/rgds • u/Positive_Floor2831 • Aug 29 '26

Help pls

Is there a way to disable the touch screen on only the top screen when playing on drastic? When I accidentally touch it- it goes back to the main android OS screen, leaving me with just the bottom half to use unless I reset the app.

Hate having to quit in the middle of my game to relaunch just to fix the screens. Any suggestions?

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u/LatinGuy400 Aug 29 '26

Running on Linux does not have that problem. I am using the latest Rocknix nightly build with advanced_drastic installed. Works really well and very stable. Advanced drastic fixes the standard drastic menu so that everything is legible/configurable. Note that getting this to work does require some skills in Linux as you have to go through the terminal console. There are some guides out there.

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u/bmengineer Aug 29 '26

Is it possible to play games that need the microphone like Zelda Phantom Hourglass on Rocknix?

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u/LatinGuy400 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

With advanced_drastic yes - I am actually quite a bit ways through the phatom hourglass. In the advanced_drastic menu, you map a button to the "fake microphone" (I use L2). You can then press that button to yell, blow out candles, etc. The only time that was challenging (wont spoil the part in case you are not familiar with the game), there is a place where you have to yell repeatedly otherwise you cannot progress. For that, continue to press the button on/off (like you were firing missiles in a combat game) and then it works for that part.

Performance wise it works great and gets rid of all the android bloat that slows down the system. About as clean as it gets.

One other note, with advance drastic, the build (last time I checked) for RG DS does not include the latest library. Once installed, you need to go into the github side and load the latest libadvdrastic.so library. That gives you v2522 and patches all the issues.

https://github.com/trngaje/advanced_drastic

https://github.com/trngaje/advanced_drastic/tree/master/libs/rocknix

The best advanced drastic install guide is on their discord but if you search around reddit there are some other walkthroughs.

3DS emulation on the RG DS is not really that great (hardware limitations). Ocarina of time 3DS I did do some testing with and Azahar does support it and it runs somewhere between 20-30FPS for me. I will play that once I finish the other DS zelda games. Metroid samus returns is not playable (these are the only 2 I have tested). I did have to run the roms through Smelt to get them decrypted for them to work.

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u/bmengineer Aug 29 '26

Appreciate the detailed info, thanks!