How are they going to/how did they emulate DS?

[Ironman0723]

With the Dual Screen, I can assume it would be harder, especially since it has a touch screen, anybody have any enlightening posts to contribute?

[Doomgaze]

Yeah, the touch screen is going to be a sticky wicket, as they say.

[udsuna]

Wait about five to ten years, when such technology has been directly phased into computers as well?

[Appless]

Couldn't they maybe use the mouse for the touchscreen?

[Meat Puppet]

Just not.

[Xander]

They just shouldn't bother.

[Rainecloud]

Nintendo are finally becoming smart, methinks.

Or perhaps not. After all, they did release the truly awful Mario 64 for the console.

[Endless]

Mario 64 DS isn't that bad, it's a good game to pass time, and the mini games can be pretty addictive.

[Ironman0723]

I heard they found a way to mod GC, anybody know anything about that?

[ZeZipster]

It's not going to happen for while. Even when it does, the roms/isos will be too hard to get your grubby paws on. Just like Playstation/Dreamcast emulation.

[Erdrick Holmes]

They probably made the touch screen so it'd be pointless to try and emulate.

[Endless]

The developpment of DS emulators already started, and so far they can play some homebrew demos (simple effects mostly)/games (tetris) (which, considering that the DS was released only 3 months ago in the US isn't that bad). I'm pretty sure that in time, DS roms will be just as easy to get as gba roms, in fact, there is already one rom dump made.

Oh, also, playstation emulation works pretty damn well, the playstation 2 emulation is another matter. And both the psx ad dc isos, back when the consoles weren't completely outdone, were piss easy to find.

[Erdrick Holmes]

If you only knew how pointless DC emulation is when you don't even need am od chip to play DC games on a DC.

[MecaKane]

If only you knew that there was no one talking about DC emulation.

All they'd have to do is set the mouse clicking/dragging to be the touch input, won't be too long before emulators start popping up.

[alexholker]

It probably wouldn't be that difficult to use a cheap USB graphics tablet for that purpose. If the mouse was the standard input for the 'touchscreen', I'd be able to set my tablet myself, to represent only that area.

[omnitarian]

I think programming the microphone would prove a much bigger hurdle than the touch screen.

[DJZen]

*sigh*

It's not THAT difficult....

[Shoden]

i have Gc emulator but i cant find any ROMS

the DS lets see nope wouldnt think it could Nintendo have become intelligente

[DMKA]

All they'd have to do is set the mouse clicking/dragging to be the touch input, won't be too long before emulators start popping up.
Precisely.

I'm sure in no time someone will emulate it. It'll probably take them awhile to get it worth a crap though (I've yet to find a Saturn emulator worth a crap).

[Xalioniaf]

I suppose that if you used the mouse button for the touch srceen, where as long as you hold down the mouse button it acts on the screen, it would work. The microphone wouldn't be hard either. Just program it to use a microphone. Everythign else should be pretty easy.

[Appless]

Just program it to use a microphone

The problem with that is that not everyone has a microphone

[Xalioniaf]

But, it's not like you need a microphone for all the games. It's just a little extra thing you have to buy if you wanna use games with the mike.

[Tidus Andronicus]

There are emulators out there... most of which are for guys that want to learn how to develope for the DS. and its not too hard to dump the files on the DS cartriges... just have to make a little device to link it to the computer... serveral guys have done it already.
http://www.themodgods.com/
Read stuff on that site/linked from that site ^_^ lots of good info on the DS, including its secret abilities. xD
There are like 3 different emulators I beleive... although one was wrongfully leaked from someone and isn't a finished version.
Each emulator has its things, its not too hard to emulate the graphics of the DS. What is hard to do it get an interface to make the touch screen work, but they've done that.
Mainly, these emulators are for people that want to develope games on the DS. Therefore, homebrew games work best on them.

[DMKA]

Yeah, I just found a DS emulator. That didn't take long. :)

EDIT: And as suspected, the mouse is used for the touch screen.