DeSmuMe is one of the best emulators for the handheld Nintendo DS console (and Game Boy Advance) that you can find. It lets you use your PC to play the majority of DS games, improving the gaming experience even beyond that of the original console. The emulator can display both screens of the console simultaneously. NDS Emulators for Mac OS X. Overview DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator running homebrew demos and commercial games. The original author of DeSmuME is YopYop156. He has stopped working on it in the beginning of April 2006 and passed the torch to a new team of developers. Download: desmume-0.9.11-mac.dmg Size: 7.5M Version: 0.9.11. In this version, we have focused on trying to clean up some complexities in the user experience and emulator internals. Pretty unglamorous stuff, but some games are newly compatible. This entry was posted on Thursday, November 28th, 2013 at 2:09 am and is filed under Releases. DeSmuME 0.9.9 released! Yes, it's been a while since the last release, but we haven't been completely idle. There's a brand new jit cpu core which yields some impressive speedups, and a ton of work on the OSX port!

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Introduction – What is Nintendo DS?

The Nintendo DS is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and released by Nintendo between 2004 and 2005. It is a region-free device. DS stands for “Developers’ System” or “Dual Screen” and it featured the then new two LCD screen concept; the bottom LCD was a touchscreen, and gameplay was split between the two. A built-in microphone, as well as support for wireless connectivity were standard, albeit the wireless portion is now defunct as the protocol is archaic. Both screens were encompassed within a clamshell design similar to the Game Boy Advance SP, or an old flip phone.
As of June 30th, 2016, it has sold 154 million units worldwide, with the most popular game New Super Mario Bros. selling 30.8 million copies.

What is DeSmuME

DeSmuME is a great emulator for use on the PC, Mac, and Linux platform. An emulator mimics the processing architecture of the native system via software. This naturally creates overhead when being run on an X86 or x64 platform – Indeed, one of the first emulators of the 90s, NESticle (an NES emulator) ran acceptably on a 66MHz PC of the time, when the Nintendo itself ran on a 1.79 MHz processor. The same is true for DeSmuME, which requires a lot more processing power than its emulated platform. Emulators themselves are not controversial, but when used with ROMs (the actual data inside a Nintendo cartridge) extracted from a game, that’s when the legalities begin to blur: To be used legally, a user must have purchased the original game that is being emulated. Below is a video showing DeSmuME running on a Mac:

Document plan

Date 02/28/2020

Type of document : User’s guide.

Due date for document: April 17, 2020

Target readers and their rank: Gamers, streamers, developers (novice to expert).

Subject: User’s guide for DeSmuME.

Is there a problem here? Yes.

What is the problem? Lack of documentation, condescending FAQ, detailed breakdown of functions exists but is not indicated by logical steps.

Statement of purpose: “In this document we will explain how to use the software for gaming, streaming, and developing/debugging.”

Rhetorical statement of purpose: “We hope to persuade the readers that DeSmuME is a good emulator that is accessible to anyone.”

Specific items to be covered in document: Video and audio settings, layout settings, game display, cheat codes, save states, custom controls, streaming settings, debug/hack ROM pertaining to the latest version released on the Windows platform.

What costs are involved? Time in getting to know the emulator and its functions.

Which individuals would be affected if these recommendations were implemented? The end user’s ability to navigate the software.

User Matrix

User stories

The casual gamer:

Eric is 14 years old and loves playing video games. He is interested in video game history and wants to experience playing games released on the Nintendo DS, which was a bit before his time. He remembers that his older sister used to have one, and he did find some actual games, but the DS itself was lost long ago. Eric wants to download the DeSmuME emulator so that he can play the games his sister played to see if they stand the test of time.

YouTube/Twitch streamer:

Joshua Cameron is a 37 year old father of two, and has seen the recent revival of pseudo 8/16 bit games mimicking the late 80s and early 90s growing in popularity. As he watches his kids grow up and play games in their own downtime, he wonders about the systems they’re using, and how they compare to the NES, SNES, and DOS games he played as a kid. Josh has a lot of experience with streaming these older games on YouTube and Twitch, but doesn’t know much about modern game consoles, such as the Nintendo DS or Switch. Josh wants to be able to run DS games from his PC, bypassing the expensive hardware modifications to the DS unit itself, in order to better control his streaming.

The developer / tinkerer:

Ron Jinglebanks is a computer programmer that would like to make a custom mod (modification) for his favorite DS game, Super Mario 64. In order to do so, he will need to learn more about the game’s memory, assets (image layers, maps), and how it runs on an emulator in general. Using DeSmuME, Ron can use its different tools to access the game’s code, take a look at the separate layers on screen that make up the game’s image (tiles, maps), or even take a look at the game’s sound channels, to see how the in-game music works. These are all functions that a regular Nintendo DS cannot perform. With DesMuME, developers can see what’s going on behind the scenes of the game, and how the game runs as a whole.

The Nintendo 3DS is a portable game console produced by Nintendo and released in 2011. It can display stereoscopic 3D effects without the use of 3D glasses. The 3DS is backward-compatible with the DS and DSi. Its main competitor is the PlayStation Vita from Sony.

Sales of the 3DS were lackluster in the beginning, partly due to its high launch price, which caused Nintendo to drop the price by a third only a few months after launch. Today thanks to a solid games library the 3DS is the most popular portable game console.

A few variants of the 3DS exist. There is an 'XL' version which (as the name suggests) is larger than the original. The 2DS lacks the ability to view games in 3D and doesn't have hinges. In 2014 Nintendo released the 'New' 3DS with an upgraded processor and extra controls. Finally, in 2017 Nintendo launched the 'New' 2DS XL, which is much like a 'New' 3DS XL but without 3D.

The Nintendo Switch launched in spring 2017, which is also usable as a portable gaming device. Despite this, Nintendo has announced continued support for the 3DS. And this makes sense as the 3DS continues to sell well.

3DS emulation is still in the early stages. Not all games will play, and those that do may exhibit glitches.

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