BEST DS Emulator for Pokémon (NOT DeSmuME) - How to get BEST Settings for MelonDS

Finally an update after my MANY years old DeSmuME Best Settings videos! - BEST DS EMULATOR FOR POKEMON - How to get BEST Settings for MelonDS

DS BIOS Download:

[shadowdoyler]

This is probably one of the best and most helpful videos for the Pokemon community! Thank you so much

[dasschnellsten]

Two things:
1. I ran into flickering when changing the resolution scaling. Just restart Melon DS and it'll stop.
2. You no longer need to download a DS BIOS. MelonDS comes with one. It does not come with a DSi BIOS though

[acesniped]

Just wanted to add some advice - if your MelonDS is slower than your Desmume, like mine, try enabling JIT recompiler - I jumped 100 frames/second on my speed-up from just that change :D

[creeperkinght]

This has made my life so much better for my DS gaming. My pokemon games looks awesome and I even tried Devil Survivor and it looks nice and clean too! Sweet stuff dude

[Baba-yvml]

One thing that has always annoyed me with DeSmuME even though it is a minor thing, is that the fullscreen was horrible. It'd create a second, glitched screen stuck on the last frame before the fullscreen and it was just an eyesore. Melon has nothing of the sort and has a sleek, black background on top of that.

[aidenyoung]

thank you so much. I wanted to play physical cartridges but they were way to expensive now I can finally play gen 5 B )

[doublekey]

This video came out with a perfect timing for me!

[tienatnguyen]

Now this really need a toggle FastForward mode hotkey for the ultimate experience. I hate to keep pressing a button.

[DHD]

For some reason whenever i download them they aren't zipped folders is there any fix to this???

[tapsthelikebutton]

this video was super easy to follow and very helpful thanks so much!

[Rubafix]

Melon works well out of the box, offers also a jit compiler but its lacking settings for the way it upscale 2D elements, upping the resolution is fine for anything 3D but you need more for 2d.

[cameronscene]

thanks A LOT, desmume was super slow on my computer, this is emulator is so fast !

[TheIndianRunnerTV]

it worked without bios. shud i still get the bios?

[NegatiVeFifteen]

In a Pokemon Challenges Video that's currently outdated he showcases the opening screen in Pokemon Black with Reshiram looking very sleek with smooth edges on the model and explains how to achieve that effect through a different version of Desmume, but on melon i can crank the 3D renderer up to 16x and it looks infinitely worse than his settings on Desmume around 2 years ago. Anyone have a fix/ know why mine seems to still look shitty?
Edit: I found that other roms such as Platinum and Soulsilver look great in 3D as advertised but even upon downloading different black and white roms from a different site they still look just as bad on Melon... Not sure what's going on...

[TheKy]

This was so helpful I wanted to keep my old platinum run and couldn’t find a good ds emulator to use

[muoi_art]

Thank you so much! Desmume was running into problems on Windows 11 for me but melonds works great :)

[Qhaiiko.]

I'm trying to give Pokémon a try and this is the best video for me thank you so much

[liukaosborne]

thanks so much, makes rf3 look and sound perfect ~

[ChrisGeeReacts]

This was very helpful, thanks. also thank you for including a link to the bios files, it makes it easier to find it rather trying to search the internet for it

if i try playing multiple pokemon games at the same time using one controller, is there a setting or box that i need to check or uncheck so they will all sync up with each other. thanks

[TheDemonAscended]

the files keep downloading as broken. The appear as a piece of paper with a folded corner instead of a zip file