STYX DS - Atari ST emulator for Nintendo DS

[Metaluna]

STYXDS is Atari ST emulator programmed by french coder Redbug, the author of Croco DS and PenkoDS.

The very first release 0.1a is able to run most games at 60% speed allowing you to enjoy Xenon 2, Rick Dangerous, David Braben's Virus and many more...



01a features (rough translation from author's website)

-

.ST files support
- sound
- DLDI support

How to :

copy Atari ST TOS and .ST files in the root or /roms/st directories of your card, patch the .nds with DLDI and... that's it!

Tos 1.xx and 2.xx should run ok, but note that I used v1.02. Make sure to rename the file to tos.bin

Don't forget this is an early alpha release. There are many bugs, I'm quite aware of that.

Author's website : http://deadketchup.kyuran.be
File : http://media.kyuran.be/temp/styxds-dldi-v01a.nds

[Mug UK]

Interesting development. Seen it on a PSP and the on-screen keyboard was a bit of a mess but I can see how it'd work very well on a DS with the separate screen.

Might be worth investing in a DS after all

[Synt4x_3rr0r]

Oh cool!
Man now i really have a reason to buy one of those homebrew devices for my DS.
But i gotta ask though, (semi-offtopic) which one should I get? I recently saw the DS-X and it looks like a very good choice, but then I heard that homebrew wasnt that good on it and it only has 512mb memory.

[frost]

You may look for a M3 Simply (aka R4) and a Micro SD Card. I have a 1 GB one and it works pretty well.

[Metaluna]

Styx DS 0.2a has just been released. It is an entry in the Neoflash 2007 spring contest. The winners are selected after votes from the community, so don't hesitate to vote for this amazing Atari ST emulator

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php ... 2.new.html

I've just tested a bunch of games so far. The Blues Brothers, Rick Dangerous 2, Xenon, Bob Morane Ocean, Barbarian 2, Goldrunner, Operation Jupiter (aka Hostages), The Sentinel can all be launched and most of them are playable at a decent speed.

[caffeinekid]

YAY! I've just played OIDS on this and it's just about playable although the lower resolution means it doesn't look anywhere near as nice as on a proper ST.

[Desty]

Looks pretty nice... it's a pity about the resolution - looks like the scaling algorithm used at the moment is doing an okay job though!
I'd say the emulation speed will be notched up soon enough.

[NikiforosST]

have anyone try it? now it has second version! but on my DS loads normally but then the screen is going to red color and it stucks there! anyone some idea what is going on ?

[Mug UK]

Only just discovered the Speccy emulator with the on-screen keyboard for the DS. Will find some time (ha!) to get this one installed and have a play too.

[bid]

Amazing! I have a SD Card "Adaptor" for my DS.

Does anyone know how to get this up and running?

I think that I have the R4i http://www.r4dscards.com/

[Mug UK]

According to the site that announced the v0.1, the TOS images and the .ST disk images need to go into ROMS/ST or in the root of the Micro SD card.

Make sure you rename the TOS file (v1.x & v2.x are supported) to TOS.BIN when it's on the Micro SD card.

Pressing Select allows you to select an .ST image file for 'AutoBooting' purposes. However, almost all my disk images to hand are in .MSA format so I only had a few. Fate - Gates of Dawn seemed to load in OK but very slowly. But then it wouldn't recognise Disk B for some reason.

Tap the Keyboard picture to swap to the mouse input touchscreen and vice versa.

[bid]

Thanks Mug, this is awsome!!!

I got the R4 card for the DS. ... But I never thought I'd be able to play all my old ST games on there!! (er, plus ones that I was never fortunate to have, lol!!)

This will make playing Xennon so much more pleasurable!!