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Nintendo DS

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Overview

Introduced in 2004 by Nintendo, the Nintendo DS was a portable system.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: 67 MHz ARM946E-S as the main processor with a secondary 33 MHz ARM7TDMI for legacy Game Boy Advance compatibility.
  • Memory: 4 MB onboard RAM and 656 KB of WRAM for the video engines.
  • Display: Dual 3-inch TFT LCDs at 256×192 pixels (upper display with touch input, lower for stylus) supporting 262k colors.
  • Sound: Stereo DAC with support for 16-bit PCM samples, MIDI playback, and DS-specific hardware audio mixing.

Supported ROM extensions

nds, bin, zip, 7z

Emulators

  • drastic (drastic) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_DRASTIC | Incompatible extensions: 7z
  • desmume (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_DESMUME
  • melonds (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_MELONDS
  • melondsds (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_MELONDS_DS
  • melonds (melonds) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_MELONDS

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml