The only gripe is the odd garbled sound on some games, which is due either to synching problems (the game not running at the correct frame rate that the DS hardware would expect) or perhaps some other issue with the sound emulation. Not much else you can really ask for in an emulator. Overall a very solid performer with a lot of games that work. I also used it to change the save game type to ensure I could save my progress and in-game settings - but more on this later. I used this interface to tweak my sound sample rate and output mode to try to fix some of the garbled sound issues I was having - and it seemed to help a bit. You should only need to change these if you have a particular game that doesn’t work, or a game that needs a particular emulated setup to work correctly. You will see two tabs: one for emulation settings and one for configuring your control settings. Press ‘F11’ when the NO$GBA emulator is running to access the configuration interface. You can also get some homebrew games to test the installation on if you haven’t got any backed up ROM files from your games collection. You should have a Nintendo DS game prepared for when you first run the emulator, as it asks for the game image file immediately. Configuration of NO$GBA EmulatorĮverything worked correctly as soon as I had the NO$GBA emulator on my hard drive. There are many more ‘green’ fully playable games on that list than ‘yellow’ and ‘red’ put together. The community however, does maintain a compatibility list on the NO$GBA ngemu forum.
There is no compatibility list on the main website (not surprising since we’ve had no update since January 2008). There is a huge catalogue of games for the DS with more coming all the time (not to mention the similarly huge catalogue of games for the GBA) and the NO$GBA can handle a significant number of them. Games on the NO$GBA EmulatorĬonsole emulators live and die by the amount of games that can run on them.
NOTE: it is illegal to download ROM images. The community is active so you should have no trouble finding answers to questions you may have once you begin dabbling with emulation. The Official NO$GBA website shows that there hasn’t been a significant update to the emulator since January 2008, but the NO$GBA discussion forums are very busy and have posts every day. It was originally created as an emulator for the Game Boy Advance (and still runs GBA games easily). The NO$GBA emulator is one of the most mature, and one of the most popular Nintendo DS emulators at the moment.