Retroid Pocket Duo Lite, NDS, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and 27 games test
Duo Lite DS testing with SeedlessDS, a DraStic frame-pacing comparison and input and shader issues. Some tests are written up here; exact emulator builds are unknown. Watch the full video on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTubeOnly some games from this stream are written up below; the other chapter links are there to watch.
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- 0:00 · Retroid Pocket Duo Lite, NDS, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and 27 games test
- 1:30 · Stream start
- 6:35 · The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (NDS)
- 21:52 · LEGO Battles: Ninjago (NDS)
- 29:10 · Mega Man Star Force: Leo (NDS)
- 44:10 · Multitasking, Super Mario Advance (GBA)
- 50:00 · Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (NDS)
- 55:22 · Imagine: Zookeeper (NDS)
- 58:55 · Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (NDS)
- 63:30 · DraStic_rev_i18n problem, New Super Mario Bros. (NDS)
- 68:08 · Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (NDS)
- 73:22 · Luminous Arc (NDS)
- 84:22 · Toy Story 3: The Video Game (NDS)
- 90:20 · Mario Kart DS (NDS)
- 97:22 · Rhythm Heaven (NDS)
- 109:00 · Zoo Keeper (NDS)
- 112:24 · Fossil Fighters: Champions (NDS)
- 128:12 · Jackass: The Game (NDS)
- 135:00 · Cars 2 (NDS)
- 140:45 · Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (NDS)
- 148:33 · Guitar Hero: On Tour (NDS)
- 151:50 · Avatar: The Last Airbender-Into the Inferno (NDS)
- 156:52 · Feel the Magic: XY/XX (NDS)
- 164:00 · The World Ends with You (NDS)
- 171:05 · Etrian Odyssey (NDS)
- 177:10 · B-17: Fortress in the Sky (NDS)
- 181:33 · Dementium: The Ward (NDS)
- 187:17 · Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (NDS)
- 193:44 · Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (NDS)
- 208:10 · Stream closing
Settings and findings
What the reviewer found in this video at the time. Newer app versions can behave differently.
The Lite DS stream uses a public SeedlessDS build of unknown version, high-performance mode and smart fan. The reviewer prefers it to their DraStic and melonDS attempts.
- emulator
- SeedlessDS; exact build unknown
- performance
- High performance
- fan
- Smart
- firmware
- Not identified in the reviewed passage
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass runs at reported full speed with SeedlessDS high-resolution rendering on Lite. The reviewer reports substantial fast-forward headroom early on; not every touch or lid-close puzzle was tried.
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
In LEGO Battles: Ninjago, the reviewer reports the SeedlessDS LCD shader appearing on only the top screen of Lite, and later disables it. The build is not shown, so newer versions may differ.
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
New Super Mario Bros. shows intermittent scrolling stutter in the reviewer’s DraStic rev i18n test on Lite even while the speed counter says 100%. The build is not shown and the cause is unresolved.
- frameskip
- Off, as described
- high resolution
- On, as described
- filter
- LCD; not isolated as the cause
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
Mario Kart DS exposes a hold-button problem in the Lite SeedlessDS test: drifting and holding items behave like repeated presses. A controller test looks normal to the reviewer, and no fix for the emulator or button mapping is found.
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies gets a positive verdict in a short test with SeedlessDS high-resolution rendering on Lite. No frame rate is given and only a short stretch was played.
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
About these notes
Taken from what the reviewer says in the video. App and driver versions appear only when the reviewer names them, and each link jumps to that moment.
Related game notes
DSThe Legend of Zelda: Phantom HourglassThe Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass runs at reported full speed with SeedlessDS high-resolution rendering on Lite. The reviewer reports substantial fast-forward headroom early on; not every touch or lid-close puzzle was tried.Pocket Duo and Duo Lite
DSLEGO Battles: NinjagoIn LEGO Battles: Ninjago, the reviewer reports the SeedlessDS LCD shader appearing on only the top screen of Lite, and later disables it. The build is not shown, so newer versions may differ.Pocket Duo Lite
DSNew Super Mario Bros. (DS)New Super Mario Bros. shows intermittent scrolling stutter in the reviewer’s DraStic rev i18n test on Lite even while the speed counter says 100%. The build is not shown and the cause is unresolved.Pocket Duo Lite
DSMario Kart DSMario Kart DS exposes a hold-button problem in the Lite SeedlessDS test: drifting and holding items behave like repeated presses. A controller test looks normal to the reviewer, and no fix for the emulator or button mapping is found.Pocket Duo Lite
DSDragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry SkiesDragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies gets a positive verdict in a short test with SeedlessDS high-resolution rendering on Lite. No frame rate is given and only a short stretch was played.Pocket Duo Lite
Card screenshots come from Libretro, not from a Duo.
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