Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Move over MelonDS - there's a new DS emulator in town!

 
 
For a long time now the go-to Nintendo DS emulator on Android has been MelonDS or a special fork of it for dual screen devices, well now there are two new DS emulators for Android, WatermelonDS for more powerful handhelds such as the AYN Thor and Seedless DS for less powerful devices such as the Anbernic RG DS.

WatermelonDS as you can see above has a really attractive interface and is easy to use with lots of features and I especially like that when you add your library of roms the emulator automatically scrapes for box art which is handy.  As with MelonDS there is a choice of resolutions and graphics settings such as OpenGL and Vulkan and it's easy to set up too for dual screen use with the AYN Thor or AyaNeo Pocket DS.

SeedlessDS uses the same interface but has less features and is best suited to a device like the Anbernic RG DS which it would be perfect for.

As an owner of an AYN Thor I've been using WatermelonDS and for me this is now my new go-to DS emulator and will be using this going forward, it's really excellent!

The two emulators are available now from https://github.com/SapphireRhodonite/WatermelonDS and https://github.com/SapphireRhodonite/SeedlessDS

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