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The fashionable Nintendo DS emulator Drastic has disappeared from the Google Play store, reports Android Authority. It’s not wide astatine the infinitesimal wherefore the app is present gone, but it seems apt that it was the developer, not Nintendo, that prompted its removal.
Developer Exophase made Drastic free-to-download past year and indicated that it planned to region the app from Google Play and open-source its code, though that doesn’t look to person ever happened. The announcement came aft a Nintendo colony took down Switch emulator Yuzu and Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra, thing the developer said wasn’t reponsible for its decision, but did accelerate the timeline.
Exophase did not instantly respond to The Verge’s petition for comment.
The nonaccomplishment of Drastic is simply a deed to the broader emulator scene, which was rocked by Nintendo’s ineligible moves against Yuzu past year. But contempt that, determination is present a flourishing iOS emulator marketplace, acknowledgment to a surprise change to Apple’s App Store guidelines past year.
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