/dust

A Nintendo DS emulator written in Rust for desktop devices and the web, with debugging features and a focus on accuracy

Primary LanguageRustGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Dust

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Web version

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  • The base configuration only includes all features necessary to run games as an end user
  • The debugging configuration additionally enables logging of diagnostic events on the emulated system (i.e. invalid I/O device usage or port accesses) and several debugging views (i.e. memory and register viewer and a disassembly view), all accessible from the Debug menu
  • The debugging + GDB server configuration also enables support for a GDB client to attach to and debug the emulated program, by starting/stopping the server from the Debug menu while running a program

NB: The debugging configurations only add debugging features for loaded programs; all binaries are compiled with optimizations and don't include debug symbols for the emulator itself.

OS and binary type Base Debugging Debugging + GDB server
Windows x86_64 .exe Windows.zip Windows-debug.zip Windows-debug-gdb.zip
Linux x86_64 binary Linux.zip Linux-debug.zip Linux-debug-gdb.zip
macOS universal app macOS-app.zip macOS-app-debug.zip macOS-app-debug-gdb.zip
macOS x86_64 binary macOS-x86_64.zip macOS-x86_64-debug.zip macOS-x86_64-debug-gdb.zip
macOS ARM64 binary macOS-aarch64.zip macOS-aarch64-debug.zip macOS-aarch64-debug-gdb.zip

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Sister projects

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  • SkyEmu: A low-level GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS emulator that is designed to be easy to use, cross platform and accurate
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