If you’ve spent any time with retro emulation on Android, odds are you’ve used DraStic emulator. It first landed on the Play Store more than a decade ago, providing excellent performance for most Nintendo DS titles. Despite being out of active development since 2017, it’s still the best Nintendo DS emulator for older or weaker devices.

Drastic DS emulator was made free months ago, and now it's gone from the Play Store Lead of the project, Exophase, plans to release the source code, fostering potential community-led development Nintendo's battle against emulators will roll on,