endrift, the developer behind the multi-platform mGBA emulator, revealed that his April fools prank was actually real. He is indeed working on a new DS emulator that he plans to merge with mGBA and create Medusa, a GB, GBA and DS emulator in one application.

He says that it's currently an early alpha with about 80% of the DS' hardware implemented. Be sure to head over to his website and check out his post, that also includes new information about the next versions of mGBA.

Check out the downloads page for early Medusa builds for Windows, macOS and Ubuntu. Source can be found on his Github. Issues can be reported to the bug tracker.

If you want to support the developer, you can do so via his Patreon or donate page.

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[DarthDub]

Will it run better than demume if so that alone makes it better

It's the same person who made mGBA which is way better than vba.

 

[Jayro]

Unless it's open-source and can be ported to things like Retroarch, I really don't care for this.

 

[AsPika2219]

Oh great! We have 4 Nintendo DS emulator right now!

Desmume
No$gba (support GBA, Nintendo DS, DS Lite, DSi Enhanced, DSi Ware and DSi exclusive)
melonDS
Medusa (formerly mGBA)

These emulators was OUTDATED and almost DEAD....

DuoS
iDeaS
NeonDS
DSemu
Dualis

 

[chaoskagami]

Unless it's open-source and can be ported to things like Retroarch, I really don't care for this.

https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/tree/medusa

Or were you talking about Drastic? If so, I agree. Closed source emulators are the bane of my existence.

 

[Jayro]

https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/tree/medusa

Or were you talking about Drastic? If so, I agree. Closed source emulators are the bane of my existence.

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I love the miracles DraStic has given us, but I'd love it if Exophase would release source code.

 

[spotanjo3]

I like medusa a lot but I don't like the sound of that name at all. It should be called mDSGBA.

 

[Jayro]

How about just mDS?

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

How about just mDS?

I guess it'd be too close to melonDS.

Desmume
No$gba (support GBA, Nintendo DS, DS Lite, DSi Enhanced, DSi Ware and DSi exclusive)
melonDS
Medusa (formerly mGBA)

DeSmuME runs like crap and is utter crap. No$GBA is mostly intended for developpers and debugging features, and has graphical glitches with most games.
And there's also Shonumi's GBE+.