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I wonder if this is because of BIOS licensing. I haven't used Drastic in a while, but I do know that "perfect" DS emulation requires a couple files that are only available by dumping from your own machine... Nintendo has been on a copright troll-roll with the recent GilvaSunner takedowns, I almost wonder if this is part of that initiative.

In any case, this is another one for the "why sideloading is important" wall, it shouldn't be too big of a deal since the Drastic developers can continue distribution with or without Google's blessing. No Bleem! politics here, just a little bit of downtime so the devs can set up their own payment portal and dump the credentials of their paid customers for continued support. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they just open sourced the thing and threw it to the community. DS emulators are a dime a dozen these days, and the devs have probably already made their money here. Any way it breaks, it should be a win-win situation though.



It's been a very long time since I used Drastic but I remember it being vastly better than the other emulators at the time. Was the only one able to run DS games at full speed on my 2012 Nexus 7. The open source alternatives may have caught up by now though.


Drastic had its own, recently open-sourced, reimplementation of the BIOS which claimed to be clean-room.


interesting! I've got a lot of respect for anyone who can pull that off from scratch.


>Nintendo has been on a copright troll-roll with the recent GilvaSunner takedowns

That was not done by Nintendo, but rather someone impersonating Nintendo.


What's the latest evidence?

Last I saw there were suspicions but an official YouTube twitter account said it was really Nintendo.


I never saw that tweet




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