ANDSemu vs GB Enhanced+

ANDSemu is a free, open-source Nintendo DS emulator for Android phones and tablets. It provides a streamlined graphical interface for running Nintendo DS games, with portrait stacked, landscape side-by-side and landscape stacked screen layouts, plus LCD swapping. Save states and cheat support are included. The project describes its code as based on nds4droid and DeSmuME, and also names DSdroid in the repository. ANDSemu is licensed under GPLv3; redistribution, forks and selling a fork require compliance with that licence, including source files and build scripts. The README recommends Google Play installation and gives source compilation as an alternative. However, AppBrain reports that the app was removed from Google Play on January 14, 2013. Its historical listing describes a free download requiring Android 2.3.3 or later. Source builds require ActionBarSherlock, Android Support Libraries and ndk-build for DeSmuME and other native libraries.

GB Enhanced+ is a free, open-source emulator for DMG, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and Pokémon Mini systems, available on Windows, Linux and macOS. Nintendo DS emulation is described as experimental. The project focuses on emulating peripherals and less common hardware, with support listed for the Wave Scanner, Wantame Card Scanner, Vaus Controller and WorkBoy. It also supports link-cable emulation, real-time clock features, save states and controller input. Configuration options include joystick haptics, accelerometer input for motion controls and netplay settings for linking emulator instances. The emulator can automatically apply an IPS or UPS patch file when it shares a name with a ROM. PDF and ODT manuals cover operation, netplay, rumble support and motion controls. Building it requires SDL 2.0, OpenGL 3.3 or greater, a C++ compiler and CMake; Windows also requires GLEW. Qt for the GUI and SDL2_net for netplay are optional. It is licensed under GPLv2. Save states from version 1.9 and earlier are incompatible with version 1.10.