MelonDS The DS Emulator Setup Guide

all right guys here we are on the melon DS homepage the link to this page will be in the description below now if we scroll down the latest version of this emulator as the recording of this video is melon diaz0.9 which was released on September 4th 2020. let's scroll back up and let's go to downloads make sure it says melon DS 0.9 and we have a download for Windows and Linux my system is Windows so I'm going to be downloading Windows 64-bit click on it and the download should start once it's finished you want to go to the top right of your screen and click on the three little dots then go to downloads and you should see melon DS 0.9 click on show in folder let's lower the screen we can exit out of our browser and let's just drag our melon DS file to our desktop exit out now we need to extract the file I use 7-Zip to extract my files if you guys don't have seven zip installed on your computer I would have the download link in the description below now once you have 7-Zip downloaded all you need to do is right click on your file go to 7-Zip and extract here and there we are we have the melon DS emulator now let's open the emulator now the first thing we're going to do is go to config in video settings Now by default the 3D renderer is going to be set on software now software will give you good smooth gameplay with no graphical issues but if you would like to change your internal resolution you're going to have to change this to opengl and then you have the option to change your internal resolution you can upscale this however you like see what your system can handle I'm just going to go up eight times and also once you start playing some games and testing some games if it seems like you're getting a lot of screen Terror you also can go back in here and you can turn on the v-sync once you're finished click ok now let's install our bios and firmware so back to config and go to Mu settings now remember guys I told you in the beginning of the video I can't tell you where to get these bios files you just have to Google search them once you're in here you want to go to DS mode and we're going to do the first one which is DS ARM 9 bios browse locate wherever your bios are and you want to select bios 9 bin open now for arm seven bios browse and you want to select bio 7 bin and for DS firmware you want to select firmware.bin okay now to set up your controller or keyboard you want to go back up to config and select input and hotkeys to the left you have your keyboard mapping and to the right you have your joystick mapping make sure you have your controller connected to your PC before opening the emulator I'm going to be using the Xbox One controller a PS4 controller works as well as well as a few random wire controls that I track now if you have multiple controllers connected to your PC you want to come down here to joystick and select a little drop down arrow and select whatever controller that you want to use with the simulator now to set up your buttons all you want to do is come up here so for the a button where it says None click on it and then hit whatever button on your controller you want to be the a button B button whatever button on your controller you want to be B and so on now if you don't recall what an actual Nintendo DS button layout looks like I'm Gonna Leave You guys a picture you can pause the video to help map your controller out now let's load up a game so let's go to file open ROM and locate wherever you keep your DS games on your PC in my case I keep mine in the external hard drive and I'm going to load up Pokemon Black Version select the game give it a minute and it should start up there we go [Music] all right guys here I am in the game now if you would like to change your screen size you want to go up to config screen size and let's up this to four times and if you want to make it completely full screen just drag it to the corner of the screen and let go now if you want to change your screen layout to horizontal you go up to config screen layout horizontal there we go and I'm going to play a little bit controls are working and everything's good [Music] [Music]

Channel: How To Nerd

Views: 29,605

Keywords: emulator, emulation

Id: L2nFsqjxUkI

Length: 5min 32sec (332 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 22 2023