This Nintendo DS-themed launcher is coming to dual-screen Android handhelds

Inexpensive Android-based gaming handhelds have been gaining in reputation currently, they usually are available in a variety of sizes and shapes. A handful have two screens, making them superb for emulating video games that initially appeared on the dual-screen Nintendo DS. This week, the developer of the DS-themed Nitrodeck Launcher introduced that an replace to make the launcher appropriate with these dual-screen gadgets is coming quickly.

As dropped at our consideration by Retrododo, developer Mr. Rubik has been exhibiting off an replace for Nitrodeck Launcher that makes it appropriate with Android handhelds that include two screens. He’s additionally printed a video exhibiting the launcher working on the Anbernic RG DS handheld, and the software program actually seems to be the half.

To this point, Nitrodeck has been primarily a novelty launcher for Android telephones. Updating the launcher to run throughout two screens makes excellent sense, given its inspiration. It seems to be just like the launcher runs easily on the RG DS, and it even consists of the Nintendo DS’s start-up display screen.

Developer Mr. Rubik says the replace is prepared and ought to be obtainable on the Play Retailer someday within the subsequent week or so.

As proven within the video above, the undertaking does appear to make use of Nintendo’s property. Nintendo is infamously litigious relating to fan tasks appropriating its IP; it stays to be seen whether or not this replace will draw any undesirable authorized consideration. Nintendo hasn’t shut down merchandise just like the Anbernic RG DS itself, so it’s attainable Nitrodeck’s dual-screen replace will fly below the radar, as nicely.