DraStic

I'm definitely not imagining it tho.
I can perfect a number of levels on real ds and I can barely scrape by on the emu. Idol level is completely unplayable because it fails me before I even touch the screen which means it's expecting input way to early or something.
Some levels are not so bad but ...

I'm having same react problem.

Ya, sounds like same problem I'm having , lol.
The touch is either delayed or something, but it makes it nearly impossible to play.

Well that's about as much as I could make out from the thread you linked.

Any idea) anyone else playing this with out issues?

I can't quite figure out what's wrong but it's some kind of mismatch between output and input.
One or the other is delayed and I'm pretty sure it's not because I suck at the game cause I did OK on it with real ds.
I tried turning off frame skip and making audio low latency etc but no difference ...