For people wondering why you don’t see a lot of Nintendo DS emulators on the Android platform, you have to understand that Nintendo’s DS handheld gaming console is a pain in the back for emulator developers. The number of input methods – standard gamepad, touchscreen, voice – and the way the Nintendo DS brilliantly makes use of all of them is a beast to port to Android. That said, the DraStic DS Emulator app does a pretty good job of it.
The DraStic DS Emulator is a premium app (USD$6.00), and it has every right to charge that. Every cent is worth the way it is able to bring your Nintendo DS games to the Android mobile platform. And with this, it’s bringing even more features to its users.
First up, DraStic now boasts of Android TV compatibility. The app even provides a new high-resolution 3D mode where the polygonal graphics of your old school games can be upscaled for HD play. This helps a lot for older games played on big screen high-resolution TVs.
The developing team has also brought a number of fixes to the app, especially ones fixing app crashes, better save file management and retrieval, and improved memory usage. If you’re hankering for some old school Nintendo DS gaming, you can check out DraStic at the Google Play Store (download link below).
DOWNLOAD: Google Play Store
