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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.7 hrs on record (0.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 2 Jul @ 3:29pm

I'd probably land a job at the NASA before I understand how to get this thing working.

Yeah, don't take this review seriously. I actually appreciate this stuff, but everything seems unnecessarily convoluted and counter-intuitive to set up.

First emulator I wanted to try wasn't even included in the app. Finally learned how to manually add the Core, and for some reason I have less settings available when launching the thing from Retroarch than if I just use the standalone emulator (can't even rebind the keys)

I'll change my review if I eventually understand what's the point of using this and how it works, but currently I can't recommend it. It feels like I just wasted time trying to configure and use this, when the standalone emu gave me better results and took less than a minute to configure.
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SinkcandyCentral 7 Jul @ 1:24am 
Id use the other one then. DeSmuME.

Not as good performance but more slice of slice stuff like keybinds.

You could always remap your controller in steam overlay and make a profile for each game (say one of the ds games you play sideways, or even just a button prompt to pop an item in new super mario bros.)

I have a couple controller profiles like that on my steam deck
Lanzagranadas 4 Jul @ 6:41am 
@SinkcandyCentral Thank you for the info.

I actually managed to install the Core (MelonDS) and boot the game after watching a tutorial. But even after that, I see fewer screen layout settings, and I can't even rebind movement keys to WASD, something I had no issue doing in the standalone MelonDS.
SinkcandyCentral 3 Jul @ 2:01am 
I would assume your having problems downloading cores.

Go to Download cores in settings its a icon with a rocket ship then download the one for the consoles you want.

Then you can load games via telling the program what folders your games are in or you can even just drag and drop.