I'm looking for the best NDS emulator that is pretty good in performance for PC. I found quite a few but I don't want to blindly download a software I don't even know will work properly since it can just turn out to be a virus or a wacky emulation. Every suggestion is appreciated.

Define “good”.

DS emulation is not great, it’s actually kind of subpar still to my knowledge. The best one you’re probably gonna find DeSmuME, but it’s still inaccurate for runs and isn’t actually comparable to console (I think it’s actually slower than console in some cases). Usually version 0.9.11 is the most commonly allowed version for runs.

DeSmuME seems like it's being looked up to a lot, but melonDS seems to be constantly getting updates which usually means it's getting improved, so I'm not sure which one I should use.

Edit: Using DeSmuME, it works well