NDS Emulation with dual screens & working touch (Pokémon Diamond Version)
Channel: wyatt8740
Date: 2021-01-05

This is a sort of follow-up to a video I made several years ago. I actually recorded it in August of last year (2020-08-18), and then forgot to upload it for over four months. Original video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pMcjYILuRC0
It's actually kinda embarrassing, because I actually forgot to assemble a good party from my PC, and got crushed by the bug type elite four member (the first one) as a result.
I got asked a lot how I did the touch screen split thing on my other video, so I'll try to do a video on how to set it up sometime, but be warned that I am doing this under a Linux distro and that it's extremely hacky how I set it up.


The computer is a Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Tablet with the multitouch screen option (the X201 Tablet was available with either a stylus-only or a stylus-and-touch screen; mine has both the stylus and touch options). I am doing it in FVWM (a window manager for Linux which allows for automation of tons of non-trivial tasks, including removing the window borders and resizing the window to fill both screens, which are both configured to run at 1280x800 at 60hz).


This laptop (i7-640LM, 2.13GHz) is just barely fast enough to emulate the DS at full speed in desmume at this resolution; it's not a very powerful machine but it is the top-spec X201 tablet version they produced. The regular X201's mostly ran moderately faster than mine, but consume more power.


If I were to recommend a machine for doing this, I'd recommend a higher-spec Thinkpad X220 or X230 tablet instead (which didn't use the ultra-low-voltage CPU's like the X201 tablet did), or maybe certain Fujitsu Lifebook tablets.