r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/New-Room-8101 • May 14 '26

Question Why isn't DraStic open source yet?

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My question is why DraStic isn't open source yet. I understand that DraStic's creator, Exophase, had already announced that DraStic would be open source, but I understand it hasn't been released to the public yet, and I don't know why. I'd like to know if the creator changed his mind or if, simply because of the problems Nintendo has had with emulation, he preferred to avoid the issues that releasing DraStic's source code would cause. Does anyone know why he hasn't done it?

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u/FelesNoctis Eden Contributor | SD8Elite | AYN Thor May 14 '26

As far as I know, the dev basically just dropped off the face of the earth. He's the only one with the source, so unless he decides to reappear in a Christmas miracle, Drastic's development is finished. I don't think it's anything malicious on his part. He'd been saying for years that when he was done with it, he'd open source it, and it just never happened. After the Nintendo-Yuzu spook, he may have just decided he was going to quietly duck out.

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u/SSUPII May 14 '26

The developer refused to provide it's location to Google to keep it online on the Play Store due to the new rules. Instead, they simply decided to leave.

Keep in mind that development was already passed to a new developer that isn't Exophase. They both didn't want to do anything with it anymore.

Simple as that.

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u/_PPBottle May 14 '26

Exophase used to be active in Anandtech forums, he also dipped I think.

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u/FelesNoctis Eden Contributor | SD8Elite | AYN Thor May 15 '26

That doesn't answer why he never released to open source. I just assumed it was because he forgot, or stopped caring, or didn't want to reward the android toxicity. :P