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DeSmuME for Mac

  • Free
  • In English
  • V0.9.13
  • 2.9
  • (160)

Play Nintendo DS games on your Mac

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator that allows you to play games on your Mac using DS ROM files, which you can download from the Internet.

The GameBoy has come a long way since we first saw that big white and grey block at the end of the last century. Its great, great, great grandson, the Nintendo DS is now even more powerful than the high-tech machines doing the rounds in the arcades of the early 90s. In fact, it's so good that sometimes you'll want to play with it in the office, which obviously you can't. Well, actually you can. Actually you can't. Well, with DeSmuME you sort of can. Let us explain...

The first thing you'll need to realize is that downloading DS ROM files is illegal, so on your own head be it if the FBI rolls up outside your house. Legalities aside, DeSmuME is a pretty decent emulator, originally designed for games programmers to develop and test their latest creations. DeSmuME can be a little tricky to set up, but once running you'll be able to enjoy a huge selection of games in ROM format.

DeSmuME is a solid Nintendo DS emulator for the Mac.

Changes

This release focuses on emulation bugfixes and features of interest to homebrew developers. Most users will find that the compatibility is increased substantially.

  • Pros

    • Can play a wide range of ROMs
    • Runs games smoothly
  • Cons

    • Quite tricky to set up
    • Latest version only works on Intel Macs
 0/5

App specs

  • License

    Free

  • Version

    0.9.13
  • Latest update

  • Platform

    Mac

    Other platforms (1)
  • OS

    Mac OS X

  • Language

    English

    Available languages

    • German
    • English
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Italian
    • Dutch
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
  • Downloads

    467.3K

    Last month's downloads

    • 44
  • Developer

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Icon of program: DeSmuME

DeSmuME for Mac

  • Free
  • In English
  • V0.9.13
  • 2.9
  • (160)

User reviews about DeSmuME

by Anonymous

Works a lot better than most people give it credit for. Honestly I see a lot of reviews noting about crashing after short periods of time and the like, these users however don't realize it isn't the emulators fault. The emulator generally runs on over 300,000k memory, if your computer cant handle that kind of memory usage then obviously it will crash. I have run the program for an entire day and it didn't crash even once, some minor slowdowns were noted but at the time of my posting this I only had three gigs of ram. So before you give the emulator a bad rating, look at your operating system first and see if it can handle 300,000k memory usage. If it can, you should be seeing near seamless game play swift and accurate touchscreen simulations and rich sound. Pros: Plays many games and plays them clearly.Good sound quality.Excellent touch screen interface.great framerates. Cons: Has a high memory draw (over 300,000k)

by Anonymous

doesnt run on os x. when i click on it it says something like is not supported on this architecture. :( oh is on os x macintosh

by Anonymous

Set up. Just bought desmume. It downloaded and is on my desktop. When I click on it, nothing happens. How do I set it up?I paid 2.99 for the :virus-free" version. Pros: none so far Cons: no documentation for set up

by Anonymous

Crashes After A while and other things. after a while it crashes.some games are really laggysome roms dont even readto conlusion it tottaly suks Pros: non Cons: everything

by Anonymous

DOESN'T RUN ON POWER PC. Tried running DesMuMe.app on my Imac G4 with OS/X Tiger 10.4.11 and received the message '...doesn't run on your system'.Did y'all know of this? Cons: not running on PP G4

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