![]() I'm the head moderator of the speedrunning community for New Super Mario Bros. Our current rules allow players to speedrun the game on emulator, but only DeSmuME version 0.9.11, as we have found that to be the best emulator in terms of speedrunning in various respects. Today, a user pointed us towards DraStic as an alternative emulator to use. We hadn't heard of it before, and it sounds promising.The biggest issue when it comes to emulation for our community is loading times.More importantly than the speed of the loads: are the loads consistent on DraStic? Loading times on DeSmuME 0.9.11 are fairly consistent each time and from computer to computer.Īre the loading times faster on DraStic than they are on a DS? I can provide footage of DS loading times, if you need that. Does this emulator run smoothly on most computers? Does DraStic lag a lot? An issue we run into with DeSmuME is hitting lots of slowdown.What are the movie recording and savestate capabilities of DraStic? In other words, how easy would it be for someone to record a movie of themselves doing a speedrun, make a savestate, then load the savestate and try again when they make a mistake, and pass it off as a speedrun done in real-time? Would it be easy to cheat?.Having each player's loads be the same helps us make it fair for everyone. Also, the Cocoa frontend sees continued radical enhancements and while the Windows frontend sees some new. ![]() Try the new GPU Scaling Factor feature to increase the 3D resolution beyond the native resolution of 256×192 pixels. I look forward to hearing back from you all, and to not making people use DeSmuME anymore. In this version we have added support for high-resolution 3D rendering. If emulation accuracy is also a concern, then Drastic DS is not very suitable, it uses many speed hacks to get games running at full speed and that can cause issues with accurate emulation. While most games work properly some may have issues such as slowdown or graphical glitches. The emulator can display both screens of the console simultaneously. It lets you use your PC to play the majority of DS games, improving the gaming experience even beyond that of the original console. I think Drastic should be considered for speedrunning purposes, and I'll tell you why replying to your points:ġ: As SSUPII said, loading and saving times ain't better than an original DS.Ģ: I can't answer that, but I think they are consistent.ģ: As for movie recording, it has none, so speedrunners should use an external recording app like Mobizen, which isn't precisely convenient. DeSmuMe is one of the best emulators for the handheld Nintendo DS console (and Game Boy Advance) that you can find. As for savestates, as Obsidian mentioned, it has a hotkey for saving on controllers and you can turn the save confirmation off. But as SSUPII mentioned, it only saves states, but not inputs, with those having to be handled by a handwritten Lua script.
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