What is the best Nintendo DS emulator for GNU/Linux systems?

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I wanna emulate a couple of NDS games on my GNU/Linux system (I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.3 (with Ubuntu Pro enabled.)) Does anyone know what would be the best emulator to use?
 
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TanMasked said:
I wanna emulate a couple of NDS games on my GNU/Linux system (I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.3 (with Ubuntu Pro enabled.)) Does anyone know what would be the best emulator to use?
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melonDS works best for most, if not, all DS games.
 
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TanMasked said:
Even though I enabled executing of the program in the Permissions tab, the emulator won't boot up.
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Use chmod +x melonDS and then use ./melonDS in terminal
 
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