Wait. People ask money for emulators? Haven’t they learned from bleem?
What exactly? If anything, the Bleem case showed that emulation, even for profit, is legal. Their problem was that they went bankrupt during the legal battle (due to the costs of said legal battle).
It proves it’s expensive. Too expensive to keep up. Especially going against one of the big 3.
That I agree with. Part of me wishes that some team which expects a lengthy legal battle would take over development just to force an actual court case from start to and. Would also be preferable if it’s not US based.
And still no intention of when the source code will be released!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
After Yuzu emulator owners agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million USD and EmuDeck also announcing Yuzu and Citra removal right after the court settlement became available on the internet, Nintendo DS emulator DraStic turned free on Android Play Store (previously $4.99).
The developer Exophase wrote “I want to make it clear that I don’t have any kind of financial incentive”, stating that the Yuzu situation made it more urgent for this software to go free and opensource due to the implications that legal case could cause to DraStic.
Quoting the Developer post on DraStic Discord server:
Releasing the source in short order is something I fully intend on doing.
I was already planning on this a while ago so it’s not simply due to the Nintendo stuff, that just made the whole process more urgent which I guess is a good thing because I’m terrible at doing things.
Note that Drastic also has a “Linux” version for Raspberry Pi devices usually distributed with retro-gaming focused distributions like Batocera so, this source code release might be a starting point for this emulator to be ported to other architectures like x86_64.
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Is it any better than DesMuMe?
I haven’t looked into in a while, but historically yes. It’s ARM only for the moment though, so it will only run on phones and Raspberry PI.
The dev has been claiming he will release the source code for years, but if it finally happens, developers will be able to port it to x86 platforms (which means Windows, desktop Linux, etc).
Dunno how is DesMuMe but it’s near flawless
