Move over Drastic, there's a new DS emulator in town!

The recent removal from the Play Store of the Nintendo DS emulator, Drastic has left users of Android retrogaming emulators seeking an alternative - well thankfully there is one now in the form of a new Android DS emulator called MelonDS.

MelonDS not only provides excellent DS performance but supports DSiWare games too, something I've wanted for a long time, mainly to be able to enjoy the Game & Watch titles that are available.  Setting the emulator up for DSiWare requires a bit of tweaking in the Settings, however excellent step-by-step instructions for doing this can be found at https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/s/0n2pgSSjTn which will simply and easily guide you through it.

In addition various Bios files are also required but these can be obtained from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ET4uEa9G470PuMCQzjusELPz0Ew-LMTp

And lastly if you're looking for the full library of DSiWare roms these can be found by going to https://archive.org/download/MarioCubeLite/DSiWare/NDS/

Once set up the emulator boots into the DSi interface allowing you to play the DSiWare roms you've added.  I have to say that although the library of them is extensive I didn't find too many that leapt out at me as 'must plays' except, as previously mentioned for the Game & Watch titles which are excellent as expected.

Overall MelonDS is a great replacement for Drastic and has a firm place now on my Retroid Pocket 5.