IS-NITRO-EMULATOR
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The IS-NITRO-EMULATOR is the main development kit for the Nintendo DS. Similarly to other Intelligent Systems devkits, it takes the form of a box containing the console and debugger hardware attached to a shell handheld unit with the controls and screens.
The IS-NITRO-EMULATOR can run games from a PC, but it depends on the inserted development cartridge to save games. As such, it's only possible to use it to play games which are of the same save type as the inserted development cartridge.
The IS-NITRO-CAPTURE variant has the ability to output to an external display; this can be enabled on the EMULATOR via firmware hacking. The CAPTURE can also load directly from the cartridge slot, allowing the use of flashcarts, but this can't be enabled on the EMULATOR.
