DESMUME(1)

💖 DESMUME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the desmume(1) manual page, the general commands manual, and honestly? you're gonna eat this up 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

desmume — a Nintendo DS emulator 🎮💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

desmume [options] files...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page documents briefly the desmume program. Like, briefly. It's giving overview energy, not dissertation energy, and we respect that 💜

desmume is a Nintendo DS emulator. It runs homebrew demos and commercial games. yes really, both, it's that girl 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (that's the - character, queen). A summary of options is included below, and I am NOT skipping any of them, periodt ✋

• --load-slot=NUM — Loads savegame from slot NUM. picking up where you left off, iconic behaviour honestly 😌
• --opengl-2d — Enables using OpenGL for screen rendering. fancy graphics pipeline, slay ✨
• --soft-convert — Use software colour conversion during OpenGL screen rendering. Heads up though: this may produce better or worse frame rates depending on hardware. so like, it's giving "your mileage may vary", no cap 🌈
• --3d-engine=ENGINE — Select available 3d emulation. your choices are:
  • 0 = 3d disabled (no 3d, we're on a break 💀)
  • 1 = internal desmume software rasterizer (this is the default, the main character 👑)
  • 2 = osmesa or gtkglext opengl (if available, depending on compilation options, see desmume --help) — so this one might not even exist on your build, check help bestie 🫶
• --disable-sound — Disables the sound emulation. silent mode, study-girl era 🙈
• --disable-limiter — Disables the 60 fps limiter. zoom zoom 🔥
• --arm9gdb=PORT_NUM — Enable the ARM9 GDB stub on the given port. debugger girlies, this one's for you 🧚
• --arm7gdb=PORT_NUM — Enable the ARM7 GDB stub on the given port. and the ARM7 twin 💜
• --save-type=TYPE — Select savetype from the following:
  • 0 = Autodetect
  • 1 = EEPROM 4kbit
  • 2 = EEPROM 64kbit
  • 3 = EEPROM 512kbit
  • 4 = FRAM 256kbit
  • 5 = FLASH 2mbit
  • 6 = FLASH 4mbit

(the way there are exactly seven of these and I listed every single one 💅)

• --fwlang=LANG — Set the language in the firmware. LANG as follows:
  • 0 = Japanese
  • 1 = English
  • 2 = French
  • 3 = German
  • 4 = Italian
  • 5 = Spanish

so your DS firmware speaks six languages and honestly? multilingual queen 🌍✨

• --cflash=PATH_TO_DISK_IMAGE — Enable disk image GBAMP compact flash emulation. give it a path to a disk image and it just works 💖
• -h, --help — Show summary of options. when in doubt, ask for help, that's not embarrassing that's self-care 🫶
• -v, --version — Show version of program. flex which version you're on 😎

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💜 INPUT 💜

okay so this is the part where you learn to actually play, bestie:

Mouse cursor acts as stylus, mouse click replaces stylus touch. yes, your mouse is a tiny plastic pen now, deal with it 🖊️✨

Keyboard can be configured, and by default works as follows:

• F1-F10 — load savegame from slot 1-10
• Shift+F1-F10 — save game to slot 1-10
• Non-keypad arrows — act as d-pad
• z = A
• x = B
• a = Y
• s = X
• q = L
• w = R
• Enter = START
• Left Shift = SELECT
• Backspace = LID

Desmume accepts joystick events, which can be configured by user. controller girlies rise up 🎮🌈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

desmume was written by DeSmuME team (http://sourceforge.net/projects/desmume). legends, honestly 💖

This manual page was written by Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> and modified by Pascal Giard <pascal@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout to the manual-page girlies, the unsung heroes of documentation 🎀

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aaaaand that's the whole page, no notes, you're fully caught up ⭐

cute little sign-off: this is the General Commands Manual edition of the page, dated June 26, 2007, so yeah it's vintage and we love her for that 🦋 bye bestie, go play some DS games 💅💖