You can now play DS games at full speed on your Android device with new DraStic emulator

One of the best things about being an Android gamer is the sheer number of emulators available on the Google Play Store.

Some of these are better than others, of course. And up until now, there hasn't really been a great DS emulator for the 'droid community.

All of that looks set to change thanks to DraStic from Exophase. The maker of this new app promises that you'll be able to play DS games at full speed after installing DraStic (most of the other DS emulators on Google Play don't run at full speed).

Before we go any further, we should make it clear that Pocket Gamer does not endorse the illegal downloading, copying, and playing of video games. Piracy is a crime. You're funding terrorists. And so on. Don't do it.

DraStic runs off the BIOS images of DS games, which you'll have to obtain legally to stay in my good books. There are various walkthroughs about how to do this on the DraStic download page.

Once you've installed the DS BIOS images on your SD card or your phone's memory, you can play the game.

Obviously, there aren't that many Android devices with dual screens, so there are options in DraStic to let you move and resize the second-screen parts of the DS games.

DraStic IS compatible with physical controllers, by the way, and should run on Nvidia's Android-powered Shield handheld. If you own a Tegra 2 device, though, you're out of luck.

We've not tested DrasTic ourselves, so if you download it and it makes your phone explode or turns your tablet into a sentient, hate-fuelled killing machine, please don't write angry letters to us.

You can grab DrasTic from the Google Play Store right now for £5.29 [buy].