Drastic VS Mednafen

Mednafen

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system...

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|Drastic NDS| Emulator Product Review

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Ps1 emulation with Mednafen. It's great.

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Drastic and Mednafen)

Mednafen

Gaming

40 40%

Gaming

60% 60

Emulators

43 43%

Emulators

57% 57

Gaming Tools

47 47%

Gaming Tools

53% 53

DS Emulators

100 100%

DS Emulators

0% 0

User comments

Share your experience with using Drastic and Mednafen. For example, how are they different and which one is better?

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Mednafen seems to be a lot more popular than Drastic. While we know about 12 links to Mednafen, we've tracked only 1 mention of Drastic. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Drastic mentions (1)

Will Drastic (DS emulator) ever will be completed/fixed on retropie?
So for any progress updates, you'll have to ask the author/their forum: https://drastic-ds.com/index.php. Source: over 2 years ago

Mednafen mentions (12)

I don't know what devil magic was used to accomplish this but Goldeneye32x managed to make a PC port of Rondo of Blood. And yes, it is fully functional, i played it. The link to the game is in the description of the video
I mean, the game's program icon gives it away. It's a custom wrapper using an older version of Mednafen. Source: 12 months ago
Resources that will help you out with replaying old games.
Mednafen with a frontend like Mednaffe are a great option for the NES, SNES, and a bunch of other 80s & early-90s systems (Genesis, Playstation 1, Saturn, etc.). Source: almost 2 years ago
Some questions about Playstation 1 emulator
Duckstation and Mednafen. Mednafen is the closest to 100% game accuracy; Duckstation is Mednafen but with added graphical enhancements and quality of life features. Source: almost 2 years ago
To prep for March 4, I got in some practice laps on the original
Both use "cores" to emulate various platforms, and in this case, they both use Mednafen for their PS1 core, which can also work as a standalone emulator if you are comfortable with the command line. Source: about 2 years ago
Sega Saturn core plays runs better when the RetroArch menu is pulled up, but unplayable when playing normally. Can somebody help me?
I switched directly to Mednafen (https://mednafen.github.io/) using the Mednaffe GUI (https://github.com/AmatCoder/mednaffe) and it's been smoothing sailing ever since. Source: over 2 years ago