Citra is a work-in-progress Nintendo 3DS emulator started in early 2014.
Citra currently emulates, with varying degrees of success, a wide variety of different homebrew applications and commercial software.
The name is derived from CTR, which is part of the model number of the original 3DS.
Features include:
- Accurate audio emulation. Citra also implements cubeb audio backend support.
- Fully functional software keyboard emulation.
- Shadow mapping.
- Stereoscopic 3D support.
- Assign hotkeys to pausing, unpausing, and toggling speed limiting.
- Volume sliders.
- Movie – game input recording and playback.
- Support for encrypted games.
- Controller hot plugging support.
- Scripting support – debug emulator internals, reverse engineering 3DS game internals, Tool-Assisted-Speedrunning (TAS), and the ability to manipulate memory in game.
- Cross-platform support – actively maintained for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: Dead
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Developer: Citra Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Citra does not natively run dumps of games that have not been decrypted properly. This requires a physical 3DS and the game you own.

Citra is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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