Thankfully, the latest update to melonDS gives Android users a new champion. Release 1.10 of melonDS on Android adds OpenGL renderer, with support for up to 8x upscaling on devices that can handle it.

The popular Nintendo DS emulator melonDS just hit version 1.0, with a ton of new features and optimizations. This is one of the few DS emulators that’s still under active development, and it may ...

Some of those have been countered by Nintendo as well. A whole new emulator for Android called the MelonDS is now out in Beta 1.0.0 version.