NDS4iOS is an open-source NDS emulator compatible with iOS devices (iPhone and iPad).

It is the most accurate Nintendo DS emulator and is actively developed by the NDS4iOS Team.

It can be run from the command line directly or as a graphical program.

The regular version now allows for increasing internal resolution.

NDS4iOS uses DirectInput if an Nintendo controller is being used.

No support for XInput exists; this will be noticeable if an Nintendo controller’s LT and RT inputs are mapped to emulate the DS’s L and R buttons respectively.

Several features aren’t supported by NDS4iOS and aren’t parts of its future as per the emulator’s current design philosophy.

They include:

A NDS4iOS fork with online multiplayer, which includes functional code that made it to official version before being removed, is available and has been improved to allow for limited dumping of online data prior to the server shutdown.

As well as a version allowing for using online play for a select few games and downloading DLC data from alternative servers with the backed-up data.

Our recommended specifications don’t guarantee perfect performance in most games, but rather strive to provide a cost effective recommendation while still considering performance.

After the increased internal resolutions were implemented in the X432 fork, as well as in DraStic and even the barebones official Nintendo Virtual Console DS emulator on Wii U, the mainline NDS4iOS project developers decided to reconsider and include their own implementation for higher internal resolution.

Official dev builds now have the option to render at a higher resolution as well, and filter textures to boot.

Overall, it’s more hardware intensive than X432R’s implementation.

In this version, they have focused on the Cocoa frontend, but there have been some good core fixes over so long.

Notably, the save-related issues resulting in the advice “dont use old version″ have been resolved.

This software is also available on the following devices: