Citra Emulator 3DS APK

This is an emulator for the 3DS. The Citra project was started in 2013 as a way to play homebrew (made at home or custom) games on a virtual 3DS system.

What does that mean? Instead of buying the hardware needed to run the 3DS system, you just download these files and run a 3DS on your computer. It's like Windows or Apple/Mac's OSX; your running an operating system, which is a set of files that do different things.

An emulator is something that pretends to be something else. In this case, you're making a screen pop up that is pretending to be a 3DS, giving you ways to press buttons or insert games virtually by loading files or tapping the screen.

Does It Work?

Yes, this is a fully-functional 3DS emulator. You can load up 3DS games you own, or custom games made by others and play them with little to no problem.

Any errors you run into will either be on the project's list of bugs, or just a fluke or accident. Not all games are supported, especially when it comes to commercial/for sale games.

Is this legal?

It's legal to own the BIOS or the operating system files of hardware you own. So if you own a 3DS, loading its bios into a virtual form is legal.

It's also legal to play games you own.

What isn't legal is downloading the files for things you don't own and playing them as if you purchased them. It's also illegal to sell copies of these files.

If you're interested in legal rulings, here is the most recent legal battle over emulator and rom legality from June 21:

"Nintendo of America, Inc.,

Plaintiff,

v.

Matthew Storman,

Defendant.

Case No.: CV 19-7818-CBM-(RAOx)"

Searching for Nintendo v Storman 2021 will also bring up related discussions.

What Are Citra's Biggest Features?

Citra supports wi-fi. This means you can connect to the internet with the emulator. It has a virtual wireless radio, which you can use to connect to whatever internet you have on your phone.

The same goes for any device where Citra works; emulators look for an available network connection, and just pretends that it has a Wi-Fi connection.

Citra also has controller support. For phones, this mostly means using a virtual keypad that you can drag across the screen, making a certain part of your screen the direction arrows while other parts act as other buttons.

If you can connect a gamepad to your mobile device and make the device recognize the controller, you can use that as well. It's all just input as far as Citra is concerned.

Save states. Any good emulator will give you mastery over save states. Instead of having to save the game at specific save areas on a memory card or slot, you can save anywhere.

Citra also has multiple save state slots, so you can save snapshots of different areas. Saved accidentally after making a big choice? Hopefully, you made other saves that are far enough back, but not too far.