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Ryujinx

2024-10-28T13:10:04Z

Emulator Geek:

{{Infobox emulator
|logo = Ryujinx-Logo.png
|logowidth = 130
|version = {{Version|Ryujinx}}
|active = No<ref name=Forks>The Ryujinx team have not resumed development</ref>
|platform = [[Emulators on Windows|Windows]] [[Emulators on Linux|Linux]] [[Emulators on macOS|macOS]]
|target = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|developer = [https://github.com/gdkchan/ gdkchan] (Project lead) [https://web.archive.org/web/20240918124848/https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/graphs/contributors Ryujinx team (archive)]
|prog-lang = {{Proglang|C#}}
|website = [https://ryujinx.org/ ryujinx.org/]
|source = [https://web.archive.org/web/20241001042442/https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx GitHub (archive)]
|support = [https://www.patreon.com/ryujinx Patreon]
|license = {{license|MIT}}
|compatibility = [https://web.archive.org/web/20240901191606/https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx-Games-List/issues Compatibility list (archived)]
|bios = [[Emulator_Files#Nintendo_Switch|Required]]
}}

'''Ryujinx''' is a discontinued<ref name=Forks></ref>, experimental, free and open-source [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]] emulator/debugger written in C#, available under the MIT license.

==Download==
{| cellpadding="4"
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac}}
|'''[https://ryujinx.org/download <s>Latest automatic builds</s>]''' Windows build requires [https://www.openal.org/downloads/oalinst.zip OpenAL]
|}

==Overview==
The Switch port of Puyo Puyo Tetris was the first commercial game to show a logo in early February 2018<ref>{{cite web|title=Experimental Switch emulator in C#|url=https://gbatemp.net/threads/experimental-switch-emulator-in-c.495982/|publisher=GBAtemp|author=gdkchan|date=February 05, 2018|accessdate=August 07, 2018}}</ref> The titles [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ux9MFHgLiM Cave Story+], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNs05L7Ch0c The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+], [https://www.reddit.com/r/Ryujinx/comments/8g2zz9/old_news/ One Piece Unlimited World Red Edition Deluxe Edition] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvKz6YPYIDU 1-2 Switch] were among the first group of games to boot on this emulator on April to May 2018. Ryujinx was able to boot and render the introductions of Super Mario Odyssey on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eTtB-Rwung early June 2018]. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC1xE3X6VgY aforementioned ''One Piece'' title] was the first 3D game to load in-game in Ryujinx in early [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voEByHuUB6Q July 2018].

Even though Ryujinx and yuzu's teams are composed of different people, their development has been steady and almost equal, though Ryujinx seems to be a bit quicker in booting previously incompatible games or improving the rendering of certain games. The majority of games in the Nintendo Switch library boot past menus and go in-game on this emulator, with roughly half of those considered playable without bugs.<ref name="gamedb">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx-Games-List/issues|title=Ryujinx Game Compatibility List}}.</ref> Ryujinx has an active [https://blog.ryujinx.org/ blog] presence. The Ryujinx team make their own progress reports that are released first on Patreon for contributors, then on their website a week later. Feature announcements are released on multiple platforms simultaneously including the Ryujinx blog, Patreon, Twitter, and Reddit.

Though initially some research was shared between the two Switch emulators, (be sure to read this first insightful [https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-2018-p1/ progress blog report] (July 14, 2018) from its sister emulator, yuzu), since 2019 Ryujinx has operated under the MIT licence, making code only able to be ported in one direction; it is only possible for yuzu to port Ryujinx's code, while Ryujinx may not use yuzu's code. There has been some mild controversy over certain yuzu code implementations that purportedly contain Ryujinx code without attributing the source, which would be a violation of licensing requirements.<ref name="github1">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/pull/4292#issuecomment-657031415|title=Yuzu GitHub mii service PR attribution complaint}}.</ref><ref name="github2">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/pull/4729#issuecomment-701680602|title=Yuzu GitHub nvdec PR attribution complaint}}.</ref><ref name="github3">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/pull/3271#pullrequestreview-338357762|title=Yuzu glue services PR attribution review}}.</ref><ref name="github4">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/pulls?q=is%3Apr+gdkchan|title=Number of times Ryujinx creator gdkchan is directly referenced in yuzu PRs}}.</ref>

In July 2020, resolution upscaling was implemented. With a sufficiently powerful system, upscaling to 4K or even 8K is possible.<ref>https://blog.ryujinx.org/introducing-resolution-scaling/</ref>

At the end of August 2020, Ryujinx was the first Nintendo Switch emulator to implement [https://blog.ryujinx.org/local-wireless-technical-walkthrough local wireless multiplayer support]. This allows games that support local multiplayer to be played with other people globally that are also using Ryujinx. This feature suffers from desynchronization issues and frequent disconnects due to the lack of a disk [[Shader caches|shader cache]].

On November 12, 2020, Ryujinx implemented a robust disk shader cache into the emulator.<ref>https://blog.ryujinx.org/shader-cache-is-finally-here/</ref>

On November 26, 2022, Ryujinx released their first port for Mac, bringing Switch emulation to macOS for the first time. <ref> https://blog.ryujinx.org/the-impossible-port-macos/</ref> As new Apple Silicon Macs use the same Arm instruction set as the Switch, they were able to use a hypervisor rather than pure emulation on the new Macs. While the compatibility and performance were outstanding for a first release, many of the features (such as Transform Feedback Buffers and Buffer Mirrors) were hacked together and couldn’t be up streamed to the main branch as they were. Since the initial release, proper implementations have slowly been introduced to the master branch. <ref> https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/issues/4062</ref>

On October 1st, 2024, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo to settle on an agreement to stop working on the project and remove all assets related to Ryujinx.<ref>https://twitter.com/RyujinxEmu/status/1841188744126480428</ref> See [[Legal status of emulation]].

==Fork==
===ryujinx-mirror===
As of now, the [https://github.com/ryujinx-mirror/ryujinx ryujinx-mirror/ryujinx] repository serves as a downstream hard-fork of the original Ryujinx project. For the time being, this fork won't be accepting any new major changes until further information arises. We have reconstructed the essential build infrastructure, and you can download nightly binaries for Windows, Linux, and MacOS from the [https://github.com/ryujinx-mirror/ryujinx/releases/latest latest release].

Note: This fork is not affiliated with the original Ryujinx project, or Nintendo whatsoever.

{| cellpadding="4"
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac}}
|'''[https://github.com/ryujinx-mirror/ryujinx/releases Latest automatic builds]''' Windows build requires [https://www.openal.org/downloads/oalinst.zip OpenAL]
|}

===GreemDev fork===
This fork is intended to be a direct continuation for existing Ryujinx users. The project accepts pull requests and code changes. Guides and documentation will not be provided at this time, though you can find the old ones on the Internet Archive.
{| cellpadding="4"
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac}}
|'''[https://github.com/GreemDev/Ryujinx/releases Latest automatic builds]'''
|}

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*[https://ryujinx.org Official Website]
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAgHOlotXfMgGcYDShkdIcg Official YouTube channel]
*[https://discord.gg/VkQYXAZ Discord]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Ryujinx reddit] (Great place for finding new YouTube video uploads)
*[https://boilingsteam.com/an-interview-with-gdkchan-creator-of-ryujinx/ boilingsteam: An Interview With GDKChan, Creator of Ryujinx]

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Nintendo 3DS emulators

2023-12-10T09:48:40Z

Emulator Geek: /* Comparisons */

{{Infobox console
|title = Nintendo 3DS
|logo = 3ds.png
|developer = [[:Nintendo]]
|type = [[:Category:Handheld consoles|Handheld game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles|Eighth generation]]
|release = 2011
|discontinued = 2020
|predecessor = [[Nintendo DSi emulators|Nintendo DSi]]
|successor = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|emulated = {{✓}}
}}

{{for|other emulators that run on 3DS hardware|Emulators on 3DS}}

The '''[[wikipedia:Nintendo 3DS|Nintendo 3DS]]''' is an eighth-generation handheld game console by Nintendo, released on March 27, 2011, for {{inflation|USD|249|2011}}. The original model and the 2DS had a dual-core ARM11 MPCore at 268 MHz and a single-core ARM9, 128 MBs of RAM and 6 MBs of VRAM, and a DMP PICA200 GPU. The New 3DS and New 2DS XL models upgrade this to an 804 MHz quad-core ARM11 and 256 MBs of RAM, along with an extra pair of shoulder buttons and a right analog stick.

The most notable feature of this console is the use of [[wikipedia:Autostereoscopy|autostereoscopic]] (glasses-free) 3D, which can be configured using a slider. This was omitted on the cost-reduced 2DS and New 2DS XL models, which were released due to eye health concerns with children whom Nintendo advised not to use the 3DS' stereoscopic mode (though it is speculated that said advisories were more for liability reasons in case of a health-related lawsuit).

__TOC__

==Emulators==
<div style="max-width:100%; overflow:auto;">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|New 3DS
! scope="col"|[[#Hardware_features|Hardware features]]
! scope="col"|[[#Enhancements|Enhancements]]
! scope="col"|Compatibility
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
!colspan="10"|PC / x86
|-
|[[Citra]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/download/#downloads-canary Canary] [https://citra-emu.org/download/#downloads-nightly Nightly] [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core'''s''']
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/game/ 63% 327 out of 519 reported titles]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|Panda3DS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://panda3ds.com/ Official site] [https://github.com/wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS git]
|{{~}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[Mikage]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|{{na}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|N/A
|{{~}} <ref name=mikageopen>[https://mikage.app/faq/#willmikagebeopensource FAQ: Will Mikage be open-source?]</ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}} (WIP)
|-
|Corgi3DS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[TronDS]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[http://trondsemu.byethost15.com/downloads.html 1.0.0.5]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[3dmoo]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/plutooo/3dmoo git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|LemonLime
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/ItsKaitlyn03/LemonLime/ git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|VVCTRE
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://archive.org/details/vvctre-bestbuild archive]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
!colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
|-
|[[Citra]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.citra.citra_emu Beta 15] [https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-canary/releases Canary] [https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-nightly/releases Nightly] [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/android/latest/arm64-v8a/ libretro core]<abbr title="android and aarch64 only">*</abbr>
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/game/ 63% 327 out of 519 reported titles]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[Citra MMJ]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/weihuoya/citra/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|{{?}}
|{{~}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[https://limonemulator.com/ Limón]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://github.com/emuPlace/Limon Git]
[https://emuplace.app/emulators/limon/ipas Public Betas]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[https://github.com/rinsuki/citra Citra (rinsuki)]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://github.com/rinsuki/citra/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|Citra-Enhanced
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/Gamer64ytb/Citra-Enhanced/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[Mikage]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|{{na}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|N/A
|{{~}} <ref name=mikageopen></ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}} (WIP)
|-
|}
</div>
<references group=N />

===Comparisons===
;[[Citra]] ([https://citra-emu.org/game/ compatibility])
:An open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator made by experienced emulator developers. The devs insist that it's still experimental, but as of mid-2019, around half of all games are fully playable with minor or no issues, on top of that its supports lots of [[#Hardware_features|hardware features]] and [[#Enhancements|enhancements]]. [https://citra-emu.org/entry/announcing-citra-android/ An official Android version was released in May 2020].

;[[Mikage]]:An emulator developed by Tony Wasserka, a.k.a. ''neobrain'', focused on optimization and stability in Android and PC, willing to fill the gap left by Citra. It is closed-source but developers will release the source code bit-by-bit after the official app release.<ref name=mikageopen></ref> [https://mikage.app/faq/ Mikage is an stage of development], but it [https://twitter.com/MikageEmu/status/1652792416250871817 fully emulates the HOME Menu] and can play many commercial games already.

;Panda3DS ([https://github.com/Panda3DS-emu/Panda3DS-Games-List WIP compatibility list])
:An emulator founded by Alber and wheremyfoodat (Peach), and currently developed by an array of developers. It can run many games, even including some Nintendo 3DS applets.

;Corgi3DS:A unique 3DS emulator designed for macOS systems. Its GitHub activity started on [https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/commit/1b81c7e00c9a7a73f2da12d07ec3a9e4bc69c6ac May 5, 2019]. The main programmer is a self-proclaimed dog-lover and has previously created CorgiDS and DobieStation, though the former seemed to be abandoned. Corgi3DS is mainly indigenous, but the preliminary [https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/commit/a60b06683495e4e8fd0c170ec4ca8c453ce31609 Wi-Fi code] was ported from [[melonDS]]' code. The project is on an indefinite hiatus. PSI said this about the matter: "''Haven't worked on it in several months, it's basically a hobby project of mine that I touch when I feel the urge''".

;Limón (previously emuThreeDS<ref name="limon">{{cite web|url=https://limonemulator.com/emuthreeds-is-now-limon-emulator/|title=EmuThreeDS is Now Limón Emulator: Seamless Nintendo 3DS Gaming on iOS
|publisher=Limón Staff|accessdate=2023-12-10|date=2023-12-10}}</ref>):Based off Citra, it is the first 3DS emulator to run on iOS/iPadOS devices. It is being developed by Antique.

;[[TronDS]]:A closed-source Nintendo 3DS emulator, presumably made by the iDeaS author. Little is known about it other than that it can run simple homebrew. It cannot be used for playing games.

;[[3dmoo]]:Another open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator, made by experienced developers in the DS hacking scene. It was released shortly after Citra and received similar progress for a few months, but was eventually aborted by its authors after a while.

==Hardware features==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
! Citra
! Citra MMJ
! Mikage
! Panda3DS
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS_system_software#Home_menu|HOME Menu]]
| {{✓}}[https://citra-emu.org/entry/citra-progress-report-2023-q2/#home-menu *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}[https://www.youtube.com/@MikageEmu/videos *]
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS#Backward_compatibility|<abbr title="In addition to its own software, the Nintendo 3DS is backward compatible with all Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi software. Like the DSi and DSi XL, the Nintendo 3DS is incompatible with DS software that requires use of the Game Boy Advance port. Nintendo DS and DSi software cannot be played with 3D visuals on the 3DS.">DS Mode</abbr>]]
| {{✗}}[https://community.citra-emu.org/t/ds-game-support/33133 *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Virtual_Console|Virtual Console]]
| {{✓}}
| ?
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:3D_Classics#List_of_games|3D Classics]]
| {{✓}}
| ?
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Circle Pad Pro/C-Stick
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Motion Control (Gyroscope/Accelerometer)
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports motion control in Mouse (Right click), CemuhookUDP and SDL modes.</ref>
| {{TBD}}
| {{TBD}}
|-
| colspan=2 | 3D Screen
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports Stereoscopic 3D mode (Side by Side, Anaglyph, Interlaced, Reverse Interlaced).</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS_system_software#Nintendo_3DS_Camera|Camera]]
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports Front and Rear cameras in single (2D) and double (3D) modes. Camera can be still image or system camera.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Microphone
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports microphone as Static noise and Real device.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/13743 Head-tracking]
| {{TBD}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Touch-screen
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports touch-screen in Emulator Window and CemuhookUDP modes. It's possible to use button mapping.</ref>
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Amiibo]]
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| rowspan=6 | Connectivity
| [[Wikipedia:SpotPass_and_StreetPass#Nintendo_3DS|SpotPass/StreetPass]]
| {{✗}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/4928 *]
| {{✓}}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvSlRyWH32c *]
| {{✗}}
|-
| NFC Reader/Writer
| {{✗}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/4797 *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| [[#Nintendo_Network|Nintendo Network]]
|[https://pretendo.network/progress#juxtaposition-(miiverse) WIP]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
| Download Play
| {{✓}}
| {{TBD}}
| {{TBD}}
|-
| DS/DSi/3DS Connectivity
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| 3DS/Wii U Connectivity
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|}
<references group=N />

====[[Wikipedia:Nintendo_Network|Nintendo Network]]====
The Nintendo Network is Nintendo's online service which provides online functionality for the [[#Hardware_features|Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Wii_U_emulators#Hardware_Features|Wii U]] systems and their compatible games.

Emulation of Nintendo Network is possible with [https://pretendo.network/#about Pretendo]: Open-source project that aims to recreate Nintendo Network for the 3DS and Wii U using clean-room reverse engineering. Pretendo supports any client that can interact with Nintendo Network.

:Currently [https://pretendo.network/progress#juxtaposition-(miiverse) Juxtaposition working on Citra for Pretendo support]. [[Mikage]] may provide support in the future though this is far from certain.
:See [[Preservation_projects|Preservation projects]] page for more information about other revive projects.

==Enhancements==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
! Citra
! Panda3DS
! Mikage
|-
| colspan=2 | [https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=62 RetroAchievements]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Resolution|Resizable Internal Resolution]]
| {{Y}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Overclocking|Overclock]]
| {{Y}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/5975 *]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Widescreen_hacks#Emulators_.283D.29|Widescreen hack]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[30/60_FPS_cheat_codes|Internal Framerate Hack]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Texture_packs#Nintendo_3DS_.28Citra.29|Texture Replacement]]
| {{~}} ([https://citra-emu.org/help/feature/custom-textures/ WIP])
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [[Mods,_hacks_and_fan-translations#Built-in_graphics_mod_editor.2Fmanager_for_emulators|Graphics mod editor/manager]]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,106405 Custom resolution/CRTSwitchRes] For using this on Windows OS you need [http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1009#p1009 CRT Emudriver]. Another option is using EDID editor tool such as "Custom Resolution Utility".
| colspan=3 | [https://docs.libretro.com/guides/crtswitchres/ Exclusive to libretro cores at the moment.]
|-
| rowspan=2 | Post-Processing
| [[Shaders_and_filters|Filters]]
| {{N}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| [[Shader_Presets|Shader Chain]]
| {{~}}<ref group=N2 name=lrExclusive>Exclusive to libretro core.</ref>
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| rowspan=4 | [https://tasvideos.org/Emulatorresources/Features TAS features]
| [[Wikipedia:Macro_(computer_science)|Macros/Scripts]]/[https://tasvideos.org/LuaScripting Lua]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Rewind
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Fast-Forward/Turbo Speed
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Savestates
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [[Cheats_and_patches|Cheat Manager]]
| {{Y}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Controllers#Mouse_Injectors_for_Emulators|Mouse Injector Compatible]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Input_lag|Input lag-mitigating technique]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Save_disk_space_for_ISOs|Streamable compression format]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Debugger|Debug Features]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|}
<references group=N2/>

==Game images==
===3DS vs. CIA===

There are two types of 3DS game images currently:
;NCSD-type: Includes '''.cci''' (CTR Cart Image), aka '''.3ds''' - data on physical carts, can be executed right off the bat, not used much since no one bothered to develop a CFW solution to load them yet (besides converting them to CIA) and only overpriced flashcarts (Gateway/Sky3DS) can load them.
;NCCH-type: Includes '''.cia''' (CTR Importable Archive) and '''.cxi''' - installers that unpack game data to the SD card or the 3DS NAND memory. Some homebrew apps (FBI, DevMenu) can install CIA files on 3DS systems with CFW installed. Digital games are often distributed as CIAs.

*Note that CTR (Citrus) is the internal code name for the 3DS.

Due to one format being so far restricted to overpriced flashcarts and the very slow Citra development (meaning playing on an actual 3DS is still the preferred way to go), the CIA format is preferred in many sharing websites, downloader tools and even tools to dump your own games.

However, converting a CIA image to 3DS format (and vice-versa) is still possible with no loss of content. Read the Encryption section below for a guide.

Some outdated dumping utilities intended for use with Citra (like braindump) produce damaged decrypted 3DS images that can't be easily converted back. No known solution exists so far to fix those dumps.

===Encryption===
Most dumps online are also encrypted. This encryption poses no problem for playing game images on an actual 3DS since it can deal with that encryption with internal keys included in the bootrom, but becomes a problem when trying to emulate them on PC. '''Citra requires additional encryption keys to play encrypted games.''' If you want to play encrypted games on Citra without these keys, you'll have to convert your game images to the decrypted format.

Formerly, decrypting those ROMs used to require real 3DS hardware (bafflingly enough, Citra devs still ask users to do this even nowadays). It required files generated by a real 3DS called '''xorpads''' unique to that game version, using the encryption engine within the 3DS. After this part, these xorpads (which are big) can be used with PC tools (or other 3DS-based homebrew) to produce the decrypted game image. After that, some 3DS homebrew (Decrypt9, GodMode9) included tools to directly convert encrypted images to decrypted images with a single button press, but those still require a real 3DS.

The game changer was the sighax exploit, which allowed for the dumping of the 3DS bootrom, which includes these encryption keys. This file can be downloaded from the [[Emulator Files#Nintendo 3DS|Emulator Files]] page. You can then use a program like '''[https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-extract-decrypt-games-nand-backups-and-sd-contents-with-fuse-3ds.499994/ fuse-3ds]''' to decrypt games using this file. Simply place boot9.bin in the same folder, run the program, mount the encrypted CIA or 3DS, and find the '''decrypted.cxi''' file inside (usually in the first folder). Citra should be able to load this file without issues.

Due to these keys being available, Citra can now play encrypted games (3DS or CIA) without decrypting them. Read [https://citra-emu.org/wiki/aes-keys this page]. Then, go to this Reddit page and copy the code from the [https://www.reddit.com/r/CemuPiracy/comments/gpo2ey/aes_key_nintendo_3ds_title_keys_for_citra second comment] (credit floppydoppy2). Copy it and make a new TXT file named '''aes_keys.txt'''. Place this TXT file in the sysdata folder of Citra's user directory. This key file is already included in the 3DS Shared Data download in the [[Emulator files#Nintendo_3DS|Emulator Files]] page.

{{Nintendo}}

[[Category:Consoles]]
[[Category:Handheld consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo consoles]]
[[Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo 3DS emulators|*]]
[[Category:ARM-based]]

Nintendo 3DS emulators

2023-12-10T09:24:35Z

Emulator Geek: /* Emulators */

{{Infobox console
|title = Nintendo 3DS
|logo = 3ds.png
|developer = [[:Nintendo]]
|type = [[:Category:Handheld consoles|Handheld game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles|Eighth generation]]
|release = 2011
|discontinued = 2020
|predecessor = [[Nintendo DSi emulators|Nintendo DSi]]
|successor = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|emulated = {{✓}}
}}

{{for|other emulators that run on 3DS hardware|Emulators on 3DS}}

The '''[[wikipedia:Nintendo 3DS|Nintendo 3DS]]''' is an eighth-generation handheld game console by Nintendo, released on March 27, 2011, for {{inflation|USD|249|2011}}. The original model and the 2DS had a dual-core ARM11 MPCore at 268 MHz and a single-core ARM9, 128 MBs of RAM and 6 MBs of VRAM, and a DMP PICA200 GPU. The New 3DS and New 2DS XL models upgrade this to an 804 MHz quad-core ARM11 and 256 MBs of RAM, along with an extra pair of shoulder buttons and a right analog stick.

The most notable feature of this console is the use of [[wikipedia:Autostereoscopy|autostereoscopic]] (glasses-free) 3D, which can be configured using a slider. This was omitted on the cost-reduced 2DS and New 2DS XL models, which were released due to eye health concerns with children whom Nintendo advised not to use the 3DS' stereoscopic mode (though it is speculated that said advisories were more for liability reasons in case of a health-related lawsuit).

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==Emulators==
<div style="max-width:100%; overflow:auto;">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|New 3DS
! scope="col"|[[#Hardware_features|Hardware features]]
! scope="col"|[[#Enhancements|Enhancements]]
! scope="col"|Compatibility
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
!colspan="10"|PC / x86
|-
|[[Citra]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/download/#downloads-canary Canary] [https://citra-emu.org/download/#downloads-nightly Nightly] [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core'''s''']
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/game/ 63% 327 out of 519 reported titles]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|Panda3DS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://panda3ds.com/ Official site] [https://github.com/wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS git]
|{{~}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[Mikage]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|{{na}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|N/A
|{{~}} <ref name=mikageopen>[https://mikage.app/faq/#willmikagebeopensource FAQ: Will Mikage be open-source?]</ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}} (WIP)
|-
|Corgi3DS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[TronDS]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[http://trondsemu.byethost15.com/downloads.html 1.0.0.5]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[3dmoo]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/plutooo/3dmoo git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|LemonLime
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/ItsKaitlyn03/LemonLime/ git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|VVCTRE
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://archive.org/details/vvctre-bestbuild archive]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
!colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
|-
|[[Citra]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.citra.citra_emu Beta 15] [https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-canary/releases Canary] [https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-nightly/releases Nightly] [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/android/latest/arm64-v8a/ libretro core]<abbr title="android and aarch64 only">*</abbr>
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/game/ 63% 327 out of 519 reported titles]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[Citra MMJ]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/weihuoya/citra/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|{{?}}
|{{~}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[https://limonemulator.com/ Limón]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://github.com/emuPlace/Limon Git]
[https://emuplace.app/emulators/limon/ipas Public Betas]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[https://github.com/rinsuki/citra Citra (rinsuki)]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://github.com/rinsuki/citra/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|Citra-Enhanced
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/Gamer64ytb/Citra-Enhanced/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[Mikage]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|{{na}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|N/A
|{{~}} <ref name=mikageopen></ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}} (WIP)
|-
|}
</div>
<references group=N />

===Comparisons===
;[[Citra]] ([https://citra-emu.org/game/ compatibility])
:An open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator made by experienced emulator developers. The devs insist that it's still experimental, but as of mid-2019, around half of all games are fully playable with minor or no issues, on top of that its supports lots of [[#Hardware_features|hardware features]] and [[#Enhancements|enhancements]]. [https://citra-emu.org/entry/announcing-citra-android/ An official Android version was released in May 2020].

;[[Mikage]]:An emulator developed by Tony Wasserka, a.k.a. ''neobrain'', focused on optimization and stability in Android and PC, willing to fill the gap left by Citra. It is closed-source but developers will release the source code bit-by-bit after the official app release.<ref name=mikageopen></ref> [https://mikage.app/faq/ Mikage is an stage of development], but it [https://twitter.com/MikageEmu/status/1652792416250871817 fully emulates the HOME Menu] and can play many commercial games already.

;Panda3DS ([https://github.com/Panda3DS-emu/Panda3DS-Games-List WIP compatibility list])
:An emulator founded by Alber and wheremyfoodat (Peach), and currently developed by an array of developers. It can run many games, even including some Nintendo 3DS applets.

;Corgi3DS:A unique 3DS emulator designed for macOS systems. Its GitHub activity started on [https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/commit/1b81c7e00c9a7a73f2da12d07ec3a9e4bc69c6ac May 5, 2019]. The main programmer is a self-proclaimed dog-lover and has previously created CorgiDS and DobieStation, though the former seemed to be abandoned. Corgi3DS is mainly indigenous, but the preliminary [https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/commit/a60b06683495e4e8fd0c170ec4ca8c453ce31609 Wi-Fi code] was ported from [[melonDS]]' code. The project is on an indefinite hiatus. PSI said this about the matter: "''Haven't worked on it in several months, it's basically a hobby project of mine that I touch when I feel the urge''".

;Limón (previously emuThreeDS):Based off Citra, it is the first 3DS emulator to run on iOS/iPadOS devices. It is being developed by Antique.

;[[TronDS]]:A closed-source Nintendo 3DS emulator, presumably made by the iDeaS author. Little is known about it other than that it can run simple homebrew. It cannot be used for playing games.

;[[3dmoo]]:Another open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator, made by experienced developers in the DS hacking scene. It was released shortly after Citra and received similar progress for a few months, but was eventually aborted by its authors after a while.

==Hardware features==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
! Citra
! Citra MMJ
! Mikage
! Panda3DS
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS_system_software#Home_menu|HOME Menu]]
| {{✓}}[https://citra-emu.org/entry/citra-progress-report-2023-q2/#home-menu *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}[https://www.youtube.com/@MikageEmu/videos *]
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS#Backward_compatibility|<abbr title="In addition to its own software, the Nintendo 3DS is backward compatible with all Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi software. Like the DSi and DSi XL, the Nintendo 3DS is incompatible with DS software that requires use of the Game Boy Advance port. Nintendo DS and DSi software cannot be played with 3D visuals on the 3DS.">DS Mode</abbr>]]
| {{✗}}[https://community.citra-emu.org/t/ds-game-support/33133 *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Virtual_Console|Virtual Console]]
| {{✓}}
| ?
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:3D_Classics#List_of_games|3D Classics]]
| {{✓}}
| ?
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Circle Pad Pro/C-Stick
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Motion Control (Gyroscope/Accelerometer)
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports motion control in Mouse (Right click), CemuhookUDP and SDL modes.</ref>
| {{TBD}}
| {{TBD}}
|-
| colspan=2 | 3D Screen
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports Stereoscopic 3D mode (Side by Side, Anaglyph, Interlaced, Reverse Interlaced).</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS_system_software#Nintendo_3DS_Camera|Camera]]
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports Front and Rear cameras in single (2D) and double (3D) modes. Camera can be still image or system camera.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Microphone
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports microphone as Static noise and Real device.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/13743 Head-tracking]
| {{TBD}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Touch-screen
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports touch-screen in Emulator Window and CemuhookUDP modes. It's possible to use button mapping.</ref>
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Amiibo]]
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| rowspan=6 | Connectivity
| [[Wikipedia:SpotPass_and_StreetPass#Nintendo_3DS|SpotPass/StreetPass]]
| {{✗}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/4928 *]
| {{✓}}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvSlRyWH32c *]
| {{✗}}
|-
| NFC Reader/Writer
| {{✗}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/4797 *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| [[#Nintendo_Network|Nintendo Network]]
|[https://pretendo.network/progress#juxtaposition-(miiverse) WIP]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
| Download Play
| {{✓}}
| {{TBD}}
| {{TBD}}
|-
| DS/DSi/3DS Connectivity
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| 3DS/Wii U Connectivity
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|}
<references group=N />

====[[Wikipedia:Nintendo_Network|Nintendo Network]]====
The Nintendo Network is Nintendo's online service which provides online functionality for the [[#Hardware_features|Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Wii_U_emulators#Hardware_Features|Wii U]] systems and their compatible games.

Emulation of Nintendo Network is possible with [https://pretendo.network/#about Pretendo]: Open-source project that aims to recreate Nintendo Network for the 3DS and Wii U using clean-room reverse engineering. Pretendo supports any client that can interact with Nintendo Network.

:Currently [https://pretendo.network/progress#juxtaposition-(miiverse) Juxtaposition working on Citra for Pretendo support]. [[Mikage]] may provide support in the future though this is far from certain.
:See [[Preservation_projects|Preservation projects]] page for more information about other revive projects.

==Enhancements==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
! Citra
! Panda3DS
! Mikage
|-
| colspan=2 | [https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=62 RetroAchievements]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Resolution|Resizable Internal Resolution]]
| {{Y}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Overclocking|Overclock]]
| {{Y}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/5975 *]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Widescreen_hacks#Emulators_.283D.29|Widescreen hack]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[30/60_FPS_cheat_codes|Internal Framerate Hack]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Texture_packs#Nintendo_3DS_.28Citra.29|Texture Replacement]]
| {{~}} ([https://citra-emu.org/help/feature/custom-textures/ WIP])
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [[Mods,_hacks_and_fan-translations#Built-in_graphics_mod_editor.2Fmanager_for_emulators|Graphics mod editor/manager]]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,106405 Custom resolution/CRTSwitchRes] For using this on Windows OS you need [http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1009#p1009 CRT Emudriver]. Another option is using EDID editor tool such as "Custom Resolution Utility".
| colspan=3 | [https://docs.libretro.com/guides/crtswitchres/ Exclusive to libretro cores at the moment.]
|-
| rowspan=2 | Post-Processing
| [[Shaders_and_filters|Filters]]
| {{N}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| [[Shader_Presets|Shader Chain]]
| {{~}}<ref group=N2 name=lrExclusive>Exclusive to libretro core.</ref>
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| rowspan=4 | [https://tasvideos.org/Emulatorresources/Features TAS features]
| [[Wikipedia:Macro_(computer_science)|Macros/Scripts]]/[https://tasvideos.org/LuaScripting Lua]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Rewind
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Fast-Forward/Turbo Speed
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Savestates
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [[Cheats_and_patches|Cheat Manager]]
| {{Y}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Controllers#Mouse_Injectors_for_Emulators|Mouse Injector Compatible]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Input_lag|Input lag-mitigating technique]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Save_disk_space_for_ISOs|Streamable compression format]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Debugger|Debug Features]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|}
<references group=N2/>

==Game images==
===3DS vs. CIA===

There are two types of 3DS game images currently:
;NCSD-type: Includes '''.cci''' (CTR Cart Image), aka '''.3ds''' - data on physical carts, can be executed right off the bat, not used much since no one bothered to develop a CFW solution to load them yet (besides converting them to CIA) and only overpriced flashcarts (Gateway/Sky3DS) can load them.
;NCCH-type: Includes '''.cia''' (CTR Importable Archive) and '''.cxi''' - installers that unpack game data to the SD card or the 3DS NAND memory. Some homebrew apps (FBI, DevMenu) can install CIA files on 3DS systems with CFW installed. Digital games are often distributed as CIAs.

*Note that CTR (Citrus) is the internal code name for the 3DS.

Due to one format being so far restricted to overpriced flashcarts and the very slow Citra development (meaning playing on an actual 3DS is still the preferred way to go), the CIA format is preferred in many sharing websites, downloader tools and even tools to dump your own games.

However, converting a CIA image to 3DS format (and vice-versa) is still possible with no loss of content. Read the Encryption section below for a guide.

Some outdated dumping utilities intended for use with Citra (like braindump) produce damaged decrypted 3DS images that can't be easily converted back. No known solution exists so far to fix those dumps.

===Encryption===
Most dumps online are also encrypted. This encryption poses no problem for playing game images on an actual 3DS since it can deal with that encryption with internal keys included in the bootrom, but becomes a problem when trying to emulate them on PC. '''Citra requires additional encryption keys to play encrypted games.''' If you want to play encrypted games on Citra without these keys, you'll have to convert your game images to the decrypted format.

Formerly, decrypting those ROMs used to require real 3DS hardware (bafflingly enough, Citra devs still ask users to do this even nowadays). It required files generated by a real 3DS called '''xorpads''' unique to that game version, using the encryption engine within the 3DS. After this part, these xorpads (which are big) can be used with PC tools (or other 3DS-based homebrew) to produce the decrypted game image. After that, some 3DS homebrew (Decrypt9, GodMode9) included tools to directly convert encrypted images to decrypted images with a single button press, but those still require a real 3DS.

The game changer was the sighax exploit, which allowed for the dumping of the 3DS bootrom, which includes these encryption keys. This file can be downloaded from the [[Emulator Files#Nintendo 3DS|Emulator Files]] page. You can then use a program like '''[https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-extract-decrypt-games-nand-backups-and-sd-contents-with-fuse-3ds.499994/ fuse-3ds]''' to decrypt games using this file. Simply place boot9.bin in the same folder, run the program, mount the encrypted CIA or 3DS, and find the '''decrypted.cxi''' file inside (usually in the first folder). Citra should be able to load this file without issues.

Due to these keys being available, Citra can now play encrypted games (3DS or CIA) without decrypting them. Read [https://citra-emu.org/wiki/aes-keys this page]. Then, go to this Reddit page and copy the code from the [https://www.reddit.com/r/CemuPiracy/comments/gpo2ey/aes_key_nintendo_3ds_title_keys_for_citra second comment] (credit floppydoppy2). Copy it and make a new TXT file named '''aes_keys.txt'''. Place this TXT file in the sysdata folder of Citra's user directory. This key file is already included in the 3DS Shared Data download in the [[Emulator files#Nintendo_3DS|Emulator Files]] page.

{{Nintendo}}

[[Category:Consoles]]
[[Category:Handheld consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo consoles]]
[[Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo 3DS emulators|*]]
[[Category:ARM-based]]

Nintendo 3DS emulators

2023-11-27T07:26:15Z

Emulator Geek: /* Emulators */

{{Infobox console
|title = Nintendo 3DS
|logo = 3ds.png
|developer = [[:Nintendo]]
|type = [[:Category:Handheld consoles|Handheld game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles|Eighth generation]]
|release = 2011
|discontinued = 2020
|predecessor = [[Nintendo DSi emulators|Nintendo DSi]]
|successor = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|emulated = {{✓}}
}}

{{for|other emulators that run on 3DS hardware|Emulators on 3DS}}

The '''[[wikipedia:Nintendo 3DS|Nintendo 3DS]]''' is an eighth-generation handheld game console by Nintendo, released on March 27, 2011, for {{inflation|USD|249|2011}}. The original model and the 2DS had a dual-core ARM11 MPCore at 268 MHz and a single-core ARM9, 128 MBs of RAM and 6 MBs of VRAM, and a DMP PICA200 GPU. The New 3DS and New 2DS XL models upgrade this to an 804 MHz quad-core ARM11 and 256 MBs of RAM, along with an extra pair of shoulder buttons and a right analog stick.

The most notable feature of this console is the use of [[wikipedia:Autostereoscopy|autostereoscopic]] (glasses-free) 3D, which can be configured using a slider. This was omitted on the cost-reduced 2DS and New 2DS XL models, which were released due to eye health concerns with children whom Nintendo advised not to use the 3DS' stereoscopic mode (though it is speculated that said advisories were more for liability reasons in case of a health-related lawsuit).

__TOC__

==Emulators==
<div style="max-width:100%; overflow:auto;">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|New 3DS
! scope="col"|[[#Hardware_features|Hardware features]]
! scope="col"|[[#Enhancements|Enhancements]]
! scope="col"|Compatibility
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
!colspan="10"|PC / x86
|-
|[[Citra]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/download/#downloads-canary Canary] [https://citra-emu.org/download/#downloads-nightly Nightly] [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core'''s''']
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/game/ 63% 327 out of 519 reported titles]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|Panda3DS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://panda3ds.com/ Official site] [https://github.com/wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS git]
|{{~}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[Mikage]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|{{na}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|N/A
|{{~}} <ref name=mikageopen>[https://mikage.app/faq/#willmikagebeopensource FAQ: Will Mikage be open-source?]</ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}} (WIP)
|-
|Corgi3DS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[TronDS]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[http://trondsemu.byethost15.com/downloads.html 1.0.0.5]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[3dmoo]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/plutooo/3dmoo git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|LemonLime
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/ItsKaitlyn03/LemonLime/ git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|VVCTRE
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://archive.org/details/vvctre-bestbuild archive]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
!colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
|-
|[[Citra]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.citra.citra_emu Beta 15] [https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-canary/releases Canary] [https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-nightly/releases Nightly] [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/android/latest/arm64-v8a/ libretro core]<abbr title="android and aarch64 only">*</abbr>
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/game/ 63% 327 out of 519 reported titles]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[Citra MMJ]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/weihuoya/citra/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|{{?}}
|{{~}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[https://github.com/emuPlace/Limon Limón]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://emuplace.app/emulators/limon/ipas Public Betas] [https://limonemulator.com/ Official site]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[https://github.com/rinsuki/citra Citra (rinsuki)]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://github.com/rinsuki/citra/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|Citra-Enhanced
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/Gamer64ytb/Citra-Enhanced/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[Mikage]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|{{na}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|N/A
|{{~}} <ref name=mikageopen></ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}} (WIP)
|-
|}
</div>
<references group=N />

===Comparisons===
;[[Citra]] ([https://citra-emu.org/game/ compatibility])
:An open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator made by experienced emulator developers. The devs insist that it's still experimental, but as of mid-2019, around half of all games are fully playable with minor or no issues, on top of that its supports lots of [[#Hardware_features|hardware features]] and [[#Enhancements|enhancements]]. [https://citra-emu.org/entry/announcing-citra-android/ An official Android version was released in May 2020].

;[[Mikage]]:An emulator developed by Tony Wasserka, a.k.a. ''neobrain'', focused on optimization and stability in Android and PC, willing to fill the gap left by Citra. It is closed-source but developers will release the source code bit-by-bit after the official app release.<ref name=mikageopen></ref> [https://mikage.app/faq/ Mikage is an stage of development], but it [https://twitter.com/MikageEmu/status/1652792416250871817 fully emulates the HOME Menu] and can play many commercial games already.

;Panda3DS ([https://github.com/Panda3DS-emu/Panda3DS-Games-List WIP compatibility list])
:An emulator founded by Alber and wheremyfoodat (Peach), and currently developed by an array of developers. It can run many games, even including some Nintendo 3DS applets.

;Corgi3DS:A unique 3DS emulator designed for macOS systems. Its GitHub activity started on [https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/commit/1b81c7e00c9a7a73f2da12d07ec3a9e4bc69c6ac May 5, 2019]. The main programmer is a self-proclaimed dog-lover and has previously created CorgiDS and DobieStation, though the former seemed to be abandoned. Corgi3DS is mainly indigenous, but the preliminary [https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/commit/a60b06683495e4e8fd0c170ec4ca8c453ce31609 Wi-Fi code] was ported from [[melonDS]]' code. The project is on an indefinite hiatus. PSI said this about the matter: "''Haven't worked on it in several months, it's basically a hobby project of mine that I touch when I feel the urge''".

;Limón (previously emuThreeDS):Based off Citra, it is the first 3DS emulator to run on iOS/iPadOS devices. It is being developed by Antique.

;[[TronDS]]:A closed-source Nintendo 3DS emulator, presumably made by the iDeaS author. Little is known about it other than that it can run simple homebrew. It cannot be used for playing games.

;[[3dmoo]]:Another open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator, made by experienced developers in the DS hacking scene. It was released shortly after Citra and received similar progress for a few months, but was eventually aborted by its authors after a while.

==Hardware features==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
! Citra
! Citra MMJ
! Mikage
! Panda3DS
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS_system_software#Home_menu|HOME Menu]]
| {{✓}}[https://citra-emu.org/entry/citra-progress-report-2023-q2/#home-menu *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}[https://www.youtube.com/@MikageEmu/videos *]
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS#Backward_compatibility|<abbr title="In addition to its own software, the Nintendo 3DS is backward compatible with all Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi software. Like the DSi and DSi XL, the Nintendo 3DS is incompatible with DS software that requires use of the Game Boy Advance port. Nintendo DS and DSi software cannot be played with 3D visuals on the 3DS.">DS Mode</abbr>]]
| {{✗}}[https://community.citra-emu.org/t/ds-game-support/33133 *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Virtual_Console|Virtual Console]]
| {{✓}}
| ?
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:3D_Classics#List_of_games|3D Classics]]
| {{✓}}
| ?
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Circle Pad Pro/C-Stick
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Motion Control (Gyroscope/Accelerometer)
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports motion control in Mouse (Right click), CemuhookUDP and SDL modes.</ref>
| {{TBD}}
| {{TBD}}
|-
| colspan=2 | 3D Screen
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports Stereoscopic 3D mode (Side by Side, Anaglyph, Interlaced, Reverse Interlaced).</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS_system_software#Nintendo_3DS_Camera|Camera]]
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports Front and Rear cameras in single (2D) and double (3D) modes. Camera can be still image or system camera.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Microphone
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports microphone as Static noise and Real device.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/13743 Head-tracking]
| {{TBD}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Touch-screen
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports touch-screen in Emulator Window and CemuhookUDP modes. It's possible to use button mapping.</ref>
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Amiibo]]
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| rowspan=6 | Connectivity
| [[Wikipedia:SpotPass_and_StreetPass#Nintendo_3DS|SpotPass/StreetPass]]
| {{✗}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/4928 *]
| {{✓}}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvSlRyWH32c *]
| {{✗}}
|-
| NFC Reader/Writer
| {{✗}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/4797 *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| [[#Nintendo_Network|Nintendo Network]]
|[https://pretendo.network/progress#juxtaposition-(miiverse) WIP]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
| Download Play
| {{✓}}
| {{TBD}}
| {{TBD}}
|-
| DS/DSi/3DS Connectivity
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| 3DS/Wii U Connectivity
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|}
<references group=N />

====[[Wikipedia:Nintendo_Network|Nintendo Network]]====
The Nintendo Network is Nintendo's online service which provides online functionality for the [[#Hardware_features|Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Wii_U_emulators#Hardware_Features|Wii U]] systems and their compatible games.

Emulation of Nintendo Network is possible with [https://pretendo.network/#about Pretendo]: Open-source project that aims to recreate Nintendo Network for the 3DS and Wii U using clean-room reverse engineering. Pretendo supports any client that can interact with Nintendo Network.

:Currently [https://pretendo.network/progress#juxtaposition-(miiverse) Juxtaposition working on Citra for Pretendo support]. [[Mikage]] may provide support in the future though this is far from certain.
:See [[Preservation_projects|Preservation projects]] page for more information about other revive projects.

==Enhancements==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
! Citra
! Panda3DS
! Mikage
|-
| colspan=2 | [https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=62 RetroAchievements]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Resolution|Resizable Internal Resolution]]
| {{Y}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Overclocking|Overclock]]
| {{Y}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/5975 *]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Widescreen_hacks#Emulators_.283D.29|Widescreen hack]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[30/60_FPS_cheat_codes|Internal Framerate Hack]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Texture_packs#Nintendo_3DS_.28Citra.29|Texture Replacement]]
| {{~}} ([https://citra-emu.org/help/feature/custom-textures/ WIP])
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [[Mods,_hacks_and_fan-translations#Built-in_graphics_mod_editor.2Fmanager_for_emulators|Graphics mod editor/manager]]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,106405 Custom resolution/CRTSwitchRes] For using this on Windows OS you need [http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1009#p1009 CRT Emudriver]. Another option is using EDID editor tool such as "Custom Resolution Utility".
| colspan=3 | [https://docs.libretro.com/guides/crtswitchres/ Exclusive to libretro cores at the moment.]
|-
| rowspan=2 | Post-Processing
| [[Shaders_and_filters|Filters]]
| {{N}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| [[Shader_Presets|Shader Chain]]
| {{~}}<ref group=N2 name=lrExclusive>Exclusive to libretro core.</ref>
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| rowspan=4 | [https://tasvideos.org/Emulatorresources/Features TAS features]
| [[Wikipedia:Macro_(computer_science)|Macros/Scripts]]/[https://tasvideos.org/LuaScripting Lua]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Rewind
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Fast-Forward/Turbo Speed
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Savestates
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Controllers#Mouse_Injectors_for_Emulators|Mouse Injector Compatible]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Input_lag|Input lag-mitigating technique]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Save_disk_space_for_ISOs|Streamable compression format]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Debugger|Debug Features]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|}
<references group=N2/>

==Game images==
===3DS vs. CIA===

There are two types of 3DS game images currently:
;NCSD-type: Includes '''.cci''' (CTR Cart Image), aka '''.3ds''' - data on physical carts, can be executed right off the bat, not used much since no one bothered to develop a CFW solution to load them yet (besides converting them to CIA) and only overpriced flashcarts (Gateway/Sky3DS) can load them.
;NCCH-type: Includes '''.cia''' (CTR Importable Archive) and '''.cxi''' - installers that unpack game data to the SD card or the 3DS NAND memory. Some homebrew apps (FBI, DevMenu) can install CIA files on 3DS systems with CFW installed. Digital games are often distributed as CIAs.

*Note that CTR (Citrus) is the internal code name for the 3DS.

Due to one format being so far restricted to overpriced flashcarts and the very slow Citra development (meaning playing on an actual 3DS is still the preferred way to go), the CIA format is preferred in many sharing websites, downloader tools and even tools to dump your own games.

However, converting a CIA image to 3DS format (and vice-versa) is still possible with no loss of content. Read the Encryption section below for a guide.

Some outdated dumping utilities intended for use with Citra (like braindump) produce damaged decrypted 3DS images that can't be easily converted back. No known solution exists so far to fix those dumps.

===Encryption===
Most dumps online are also encrypted. This encryption poses no problem for playing game images on an actual 3DS since it can deal with that encryption with internal keys included in the bootrom, but becomes a problem when trying to emulate them on PC. '''Citra requires additional encryption keys to play encrypted games.''' If you want to play encrypted games on Citra without these keys, you'll have to convert your game images to the decrypted format.

Formerly, decrypting those ROMs used to require real 3DS hardware (bafflingly enough, Citra devs still ask users to do this even nowadays). It required files generated by a real 3DS called '''xorpads''' unique to that game version, using the encryption engine within the 3DS. After this part, these xorpads (which are big) can be used with PC tools (or other 3DS-based homebrew) to produce the decrypted game image. After that, some 3DS homebrew (Decrypt9, GodMode9) included tools to directly convert encrypted images to decrypted images with a single button press, but those still require a real 3DS.

The game changer was the sighax exploit, which allowed for the dumping of the 3DS bootrom, which includes these encryption keys. This file can be downloaded from the [[Emulator Files#Nintendo 3DS|Emulator Files]] page. You can then use a program like '''[https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-extract-decrypt-games-nand-backups-and-sd-contents-with-fuse-3ds.499994/ fuse-3ds]''' to decrypt games using this file. Simply place boot9.bin in the same folder, run the program, mount the encrypted CIA or 3DS, and find the '''decrypted.cxi''' file inside (usually in the first folder). Citra should be able to load this file without issues.

Due to these keys being available, Citra can now play encrypted games (3DS or CIA) without decrypting them. Read [https://citra-emu.org/wiki/aes-keys this page]. Then, go to this Reddit page and copy the code from the [https://www.reddit.com/r/CemuPiracy/comments/gpo2ey/aes_key_nintendo_3ds_title_keys_for_citra second comment] (credit floppydoppy2). Copy it and make a new TXT file named '''aes_keys.txt'''. Place this TXT file in the sysdata folder of Citra's user directory. This key file is already included in the 3DS Shared Data download in the [[Emulator files#Nintendo_3DS|Emulator Files]] page.

{{Nintendo}}

[[Category:Consoles]]
[[Category:Handheld consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo consoles]]
[[Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo 3DS emulators|*]]
[[Category:ARM-based]]

Nintendo 3DS emulators

2023-11-27T07:25:11Z

Emulator Geek: /* Emulators */

{{Infobox console
|title = Nintendo 3DS
|logo = 3ds.png
|developer = [[:Nintendo]]
|type = [[:Category:Handheld consoles|Handheld game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles|Eighth generation]]
|release = 2011
|discontinued = 2020
|predecessor = [[Nintendo DSi emulators|Nintendo DSi]]
|successor = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|emulated = {{✓}}
}}

{{for|other emulators that run on 3DS hardware|Emulators on 3DS}}

The '''[[wikipedia:Nintendo 3DS|Nintendo 3DS]]''' is an eighth-generation handheld game console by Nintendo, released on March 27, 2011, for {{inflation|USD|249|2011}}. The original model and the 2DS had a dual-core ARM11 MPCore at 268 MHz and a single-core ARM9, 128 MBs of RAM and 6 MBs of VRAM, and a DMP PICA200 GPU. The New 3DS and New 2DS XL models upgrade this to an 804 MHz quad-core ARM11 and 256 MBs of RAM, along with an extra pair of shoulder buttons and a right analog stick.

The most notable feature of this console is the use of [[wikipedia:Autostereoscopy|autostereoscopic]] (glasses-free) 3D, which can be configured using a slider. This was omitted on the cost-reduced 2DS and New 2DS XL models, which were released due to eye health concerns with children whom Nintendo advised not to use the 3DS' stereoscopic mode (though it is speculated that said advisories were more for liability reasons in case of a health-related lawsuit).

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==Emulators==
<div style="max-width:100%; overflow:auto;">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|New 3DS
! scope="col"|[[#Hardware_features|Hardware features]]
! scope="col"|[[#Enhancements|Enhancements]]
! scope="col"|Compatibility
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
!colspan="10"|PC / x86
|-
|[[Citra]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/download/#downloads-canary Canary] [https://citra-emu.org/download/#downloads-nightly Nightly] [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core'''s''']
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/game/ 63% 327 out of 519 reported titles]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|Panda3DS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://panda3ds.com/ Official site] [https://github.com/wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS git]
|{{~}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[Mikage]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|{{na}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|N/A
|{{~}} <ref name=mikageopen>[https://mikage.app/faq/#willmikagebeopensource FAQ: Will Mikage be open-source?]</ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}} (WIP)
|-
|Corgi3DS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[TronDS]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[http://trondsemu.byethost15.com/downloads.html 1.0.0.5]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[3dmoo]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/plutooo/3dmoo git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|LemonLime
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/ItsKaitlyn03/LemonLime/ git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|VVCTRE
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://archive.org/details/vvctre-bestbuild archive]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
!colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
|-
|[[Citra]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.citra.citra_emu Beta 15] [https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-canary/releases Canary] [https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-nightly/releases Nightly] [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/android/latest/arm64-v8a/ libretro core]<abbr title="android and aarch64 only">*</abbr>
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|[https://citra-emu.org/game/ 63% 327 out of 519 reported titles]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[Citra MMJ]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/weihuoya/citra/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|{{?}}
|{{~}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[https://limonemulator.com/ Official site] [https://github.com/emuPlace/Limon Limón]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://emuplace.app/emulators/limon/ipas Public Betas]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[https://github.com/rinsuki/citra Citra (rinsuki)]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://github.com/rinsuki/citra/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|Citra-Enhanced
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/Gamer64ytb/Citra-Enhanced/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[Mikage]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|{{na}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|N/A
|{{~}} <ref name=mikageopen></ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}} (WIP)
|-
|}
</div>
<references group=N />

===Comparisons===
;[[Citra]] ([https://citra-emu.org/game/ compatibility])
:An open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator made by experienced emulator developers. The devs insist that it's still experimental, but as of mid-2019, around half of all games are fully playable with minor or no issues, on top of that its supports lots of [[#Hardware_features|hardware features]] and [[#Enhancements|enhancements]]. [https://citra-emu.org/entry/announcing-citra-android/ An official Android version was released in May 2020].

;[[Mikage]]:An emulator developed by Tony Wasserka, a.k.a. ''neobrain'', focused on optimization and stability in Android and PC, willing to fill the gap left by Citra. It is closed-source but developers will release the source code bit-by-bit after the official app release.<ref name=mikageopen></ref> [https://mikage.app/faq/ Mikage is an stage of development], but it [https://twitter.com/MikageEmu/status/1652792416250871817 fully emulates the HOME Menu] and can play many commercial games already.

;Panda3DS ([https://github.com/Panda3DS-emu/Panda3DS-Games-List WIP compatibility list])
:An emulator founded by Alber and wheremyfoodat (Peach), and currently developed by an array of developers. It can run many games, even including some Nintendo 3DS applets.

;Corgi3DS:A unique 3DS emulator designed for macOS systems. Its GitHub activity started on [https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/commit/1b81c7e00c9a7a73f2da12d07ec3a9e4bc69c6ac May 5, 2019]. The main programmer is a self-proclaimed dog-lover and has previously created CorgiDS and DobieStation, though the former seemed to be abandoned. Corgi3DS is mainly indigenous, but the preliminary [https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/commit/a60b06683495e4e8fd0c170ec4ca8c453ce31609 Wi-Fi code] was ported from [[melonDS]]' code. The project is on an indefinite hiatus. PSI said this about the matter: "''Haven't worked on it in several months, it's basically a hobby project of mine that I touch when I feel the urge''".

;Limón (previously emuThreeDS):Based off Citra, it is the first 3DS emulator to run on iOS/iPadOS devices. It is being developed by Antique.

;[[TronDS]]:A closed-source Nintendo 3DS emulator, presumably made by the iDeaS author. Little is known about it other than that it can run simple homebrew. It cannot be used for playing games.

;[[3dmoo]]:Another open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator, made by experienced developers in the DS hacking scene. It was released shortly after Citra and received similar progress for a few months, but was eventually aborted by its authors after a while.

==Hardware features==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
! Citra
! Citra MMJ
! Mikage
! Panda3DS
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS_system_software#Home_menu|HOME Menu]]
| {{✓}}[https://citra-emu.org/entry/citra-progress-report-2023-q2/#home-menu *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}[https://www.youtube.com/@MikageEmu/videos *]
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS#Backward_compatibility|<abbr title="In addition to its own software, the Nintendo 3DS is backward compatible with all Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi software. Like the DSi and DSi XL, the Nintendo 3DS is incompatible with DS software that requires use of the Game Boy Advance port. Nintendo DS and DSi software cannot be played with 3D visuals on the 3DS.">DS Mode</abbr>]]
| {{✗}}[https://community.citra-emu.org/t/ds-game-support/33133 *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Virtual_Console|Virtual Console]]
| {{✓}}
| ?
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:3D_Classics#List_of_games|3D Classics]]
| {{✓}}
| ?
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Circle Pad Pro/C-Stick
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Motion Control (Gyroscope/Accelerometer)
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports motion control in Mouse (Right click), CemuhookUDP and SDL modes.</ref>
| {{TBD}}
| {{TBD}}
|-
| colspan=2 | 3D Screen
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports Stereoscopic 3D mode (Side by Side, Anaglyph, Interlaced, Reverse Interlaced).</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Nintendo_3DS_system_software#Nintendo_3DS_Camera|Camera]]
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports Front and Rear cameras in single (2D) and double (3D) modes. Camera can be still image or system camera.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Microphone
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports microphone as Static noise and Real device.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/13743 Head-tracking]
| {{TBD}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Touch-screen
| {{✓}}<ref group=N>Citra supports touch-screen in Emulator Window and CemuhookUDP modes. It's possible to use button mapping.</ref>
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Amiibo]]
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| rowspan=6 | Connectivity
| [[Wikipedia:SpotPass_and_StreetPass#Nintendo_3DS|SpotPass/StreetPass]]
| {{✗}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/4928 *]
| {{✓}}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvSlRyWH32c *]
| {{✗}}
|-
| NFC Reader/Writer
| {{✗}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/4797 *]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| [[#Nintendo_Network|Nintendo Network]]
|[https://pretendo.network/progress#juxtaposition-(miiverse) WIP]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
| Download Play
| {{✓}}
| {{TBD}}
| {{TBD}}
|-
| DS/DSi/3DS Connectivity
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| 3DS/Wii U Connectivity
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|}
<references group=N />

====[[Wikipedia:Nintendo_Network|Nintendo Network]]====
The Nintendo Network is Nintendo's online service which provides online functionality for the [[#Hardware_features|Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Wii_U_emulators#Hardware_Features|Wii U]] systems and their compatible games.

Emulation of Nintendo Network is possible with [https://pretendo.network/#about Pretendo]: Open-source project that aims to recreate Nintendo Network for the 3DS and Wii U using clean-room reverse engineering. Pretendo supports any client that can interact with Nintendo Network.

:Currently [https://pretendo.network/progress#juxtaposition-(miiverse) Juxtaposition working on Citra for Pretendo support]. [[Mikage]] may provide support in the future though this is far from certain.
:See [[Preservation_projects|Preservation projects]] page for more information about other revive projects.

==Enhancements==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
! Citra
! Panda3DS
! Mikage
|-
| colspan=2 | [https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=62 RetroAchievements]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Resolution|Resizable Internal Resolution]]
| {{Y}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Overclocking|Overclock]]
| {{Y}}[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/issues/5975 *]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Widescreen_hacks#Emulators_.283D.29|Widescreen hack]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[30/60_FPS_cheat_codes|Internal Framerate Hack]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Texture_packs#Nintendo_3DS_.28Citra.29|Texture Replacement]]
| {{~}} ([https://citra-emu.org/help/feature/custom-textures/ WIP])
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [[Mods,_hacks_and_fan-translations#Built-in_graphics_mod_editor.2Fmanager_for_emulators|Graphics mod editor/manager]]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
|-
| colspan=2 | Built-in [http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,106405 Custom resolution/CRTSwitchRes] For using this on Windows OS you need [http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1009#p1009 CRT Emudriver]. Another option is using EDID editor tool such as "Custom Resolution Utility".
| colspan=3 | [https://docs.libretro.com/guides/crtswitchres/ Exclusive to libretro cores at the moment.]
|-
| rowspan=2 | Post-Processing
| [[Shaders_and_filters|Filters]]
| {{N}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| [[Shader_Presets|Shader Chain]]
| {{~}}<ref group=N2 name=lrExclusive>Exclusive to libretro core.</ref>
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| rowspan=4 | [https://tasvideos.org/Emulatorresources/Features TAS features]
| [[Wikipedia:Macro_(computer_science)|Macros/Scripts]]/[https://tasvideos.org/LuaScripting Lua]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Rewind
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Fast-Forward/Turbo Speed
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| Savestates
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Controllers#Mouse_Injectors_for_Emulators|Mouse Injector Compatible]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Input_lag|Input lag-mitigating technique]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Save_disk_space_for_ISOs|Streamable compression format]]
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
| {{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Debugger|Debug Features]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
| {{N}}
|}
<references group=N2/>

==Game images==
===3DS vs. CIA===

There are two types of 3DS game images currently:
;NCSD-type: Includes '''.cci''' (CTR Cart Image), aka '''.3ds''' - data on physical carts, can be executed right off the bat, not used much since no one bothered to develop a CFW solution to load them yet (besides converting them to CIA) and only overpriced flashcarts (Gateway/Sky3DS) can load them.
;NCCH-type: Includes '''.cia''' (CTR Importable Archive) and '''.cxi''' - installers that unpack game data to the SD card or the 3DS NAND memory. Some homebrew apps (FBI, DevMenu) can install CIA files on 3DS systems with CFW installed. Digital games are often distributed as CIAs.

*Note that CTR (Citrus) is the internal code name for the 3DS.

Due to one format being so far restricted to overpriced flashcarts and the very slow Citra development (meaning playing on an actual 3DS is still the preferred way to go), the CIA format is preferred in many sharing websites, downloader tools and even tools to dump your own games.

However, converting a CIA image to 3DS format (and vice-versa) is still possible with no loss of content. Read the Encryption section below for a guide.

Some outdated dumping utilities intended for use with Citra (like braindump) produce damaged decrypted 3DS images that can't be easily converted back. No known solution exists so far to fix those dumps.

===Encryption===
Most dumps online are also encrypted. This encryption poses no problem for playing game images on an actual 3DS since it can deal with that encryption with internal keys included in the bootrom, but becomes a problem when trying to emulate them on PC. '''Citra requires additional encryption keys to play encrypted games.''' If you want to play encrypted games on Citra without these keys, you'll have to convert your game images to the decrypted format.

Formerly, decrypting those ROMs used to require real 3DS hardware (bafflingly enough, Citra devs still ask users to do this even nowadays). It required files generated by a real 3DS called '''xorpads''' unique to that game version, using the encryption engine within the 3DS. After this part, these xorpads (which are big) can be used with PC tools (or other 3DS-based homebrew) to produce the decrypted game image. After that, some 3DS homebrew (Decrypt9, GodMode9) included tools to directly convert encrypted images to decrypted images with a single button press, but those still require a real 3DS.

The game changer was the sighax exploit, which allowed for the dumping of the 3DS bootrom, which includes these encryption keys. This file can be downloaded from the [[Emulator Files#Nintendo 3DS|Emulator Files]] page. You can then use a program like '''[https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-extract-decrypt-games-nand-backups-and-sd-contents-with-fuse-3ds.499994/ fuse-3ds]''' to decrypt games using this file. Simply place boot9.bin in the same folder, run the program, mount the encrypted CIA or 3DS, and find the '''decrypted.cxi''' file inside (usually in the first folder). Citra should be able to load this file without issues.

Due to these keys being available, Citra can now play encrypted games (3DS or CIA) without decrypting them. Read [https://citra-emu.org/wiki/aes-keys this page]. Then, go to this Reddit page and copy the code from the [https://www.reddit.com/r/CemuPiracy/comments/gpo2ey/aes_key_nintendo_3ds_title_keys_for_citra second comment] (credit floppydoppy2). Copy it and make a new TXT file named '''aes_keys.txt'''. Place this TXT file in the sysdata folder of Citra's user directory. This key file is already included in the 3DS Shared Data download in the [[Emulator files#Nintendo_3DS|Emulator Files]] page.

{{Nintendo}}

[[Category:Consoles]]
[[Category:Handheld consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo consoles]]
[[Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo 3DS emulators|*]]
[[Category:ARM-based]]

ROM & ISO sites

2023-11-20T16:49:09Z

Emulator Geek: /* ROM & ISO websites */

If you are looking for BIOS/Firmware files, you can find them on the [[Emulator Files]] page.

==Downloads==
===Internet Archive===
Add a slash (<code>/</code>) after the URLs to view the contents of compressed archives from the browser. This helps you avoid downloading upwards of 400 gigabytes just to get only a fraction of the contents. The archive also creates torrents of each entry (that are not the same as any original torrents the user may have uploaded) that you can use to speed up your downloads, but be warned however that these torrents can be problematic if the uploader has added/removed/renamed files in the collection as they tend to not update correctly, if at all, so you may end up with only part of the collection, or an older version of the collection. A better recommendation is to use [[#Download Managers|a download manager listed below]] to grab all the files rather than use the torrents.
:'''''NOTE:''' If downloads are restricted (greyed out), copy the file name and append it to the end of the URL (ie: <nowiki>https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack -> https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack/ROMPack.zip</nowiki>)''

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
!Set
!Date
!Registration Required
!Notes
|-
|[https://archive.org/download/ni-roms/roms/ NI ROM Sets]
|2023-06-05
|{{✗}}
|Huge collection of updated No-Intro ROM Sets
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/pspminis pspminis][https://archive.org/details/pspminigamecollection pspminigamecollection]
|
|{{✗}}
|294 psp mini games
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/efarcadeversionroms Arcade Version Roms]
|
|{{✗}}
|Caveui v1.3.3 Shooting Complete, Demul v0.7 Full Roms, FinalBunr Alpha v0.2.97.34Full Roms, Mame4All v2.3 Full Roms, Mame4Droid v0.139u1 Full Roms, Mame32 Plus! v0.84u5, Nebula v2.25b Full Roms, NeoRAGEx Full Roms, Raine v0.64.16 Full Roms, Raine v0.91.4 Full Roms, SEGA Model 2 v1.1a Full Roms, SEGA Supermodel v0.2a Full Roms, Win Kawaks v1.65 Full Roms, Zinc v1.1 Full Roms
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/latest-everdrive-pack-2020-04-16 SmokeMonster's ROM Packs]
|2020-06-29
|{{✗}}
|[https://i.imgur.com/vEtcYaP.png All links have been purged], 2018 torrent can be found on piratebay or 2020 pack with this [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:26a20a07a81c1df113b008973a2df2649690d9a0&dn=Latest%20Everdrive%20pack%20%202020-04-16&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.to%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.me%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.cyberia.is%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker3.itzmx.com%3a6961%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker1.itzmx.com%3a8080%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.stealth.si%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.ds.is%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fopen.acgnxtracker.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fretracker.lanta-net.ru%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker4.itzmx.com%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.moeking.me%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fp4p.arenabg.ch%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fipv4.tracker.harry.lu%3a80%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fp4p.arenabg.com%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.bt4g.com%3a2095%2fannounce torrent magnet]
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/messmame?sort=-publicdate MAME and MESS]
|
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/sega-mega-cd-sega-cd-chds Redump Sega - Mega-CD - Sega CD CHDs]
|2020-09-13
|{{✗}}
|Redump (526/530) Torrent contains "Sega - Mega-CD - Sega CD - CHDs.torrent"
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/redump Redump.org Sets]
|
|{{✗}}
|A massive collection of most of the Redump sets. A good place to start for those new to collecting.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/xboxcds?sort=-publicdate Redump Original Xbox]
|
|{{✗}}
|Extract with [https://github.com/XboxDev/extract-xiso extract-xiso].
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/RedumpSegaSaturn2019October17MIA1 Redump Sega - Saturn]
|2019-10-17
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/snk-neo-geo-cd-chds Redump SNK - Neo Geo CD - CHDs]
|2020-09-17
|{{✗}}
|Redump (101/101) Torrent contains: "SNK - Neo Geo CD - CHDs.torrent"
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/RedumpSnkNeoGeoCd16Oct2019 Redump SNK - Neo Geo CD]
|2019-10-16
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/tosec?sort=-publicdate TOSEC] (The Old School Emulation Center)
|
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/@manydumpedgames TOSEC - Sega Dreamcast]
|
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware Vintage Software]
|
|{{✗}}
|Many DOS collections and older games.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17 Neo-Kobe NEC PC-9801]
|2017-11-17
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/Neo_Kobe_NEC_PC-8801_2016-02-25 Neo-Kobe NEC PC-8801]
|2016-02-25
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|Redump Wii America ([https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart1 1], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart2 2], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart3 3], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart3_201802 4], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart5 5], [https://archive.org/details/Httpsarchive.orgdetailsRedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart6 6])
|2017-09-07
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/Cyles_Gameboy_roms Complete Gameboy Roms]
|2019-02-19
|{{✗}}
|US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/CylesSNESRomPack Complete Super Nintendo RomPack]
|2019-02-11
|{{✗}}
|US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-01-03_Fixed No-Intro Collection]
|2016-01-03
|{{✗}}
|Outdated.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/noIntroNintendoDsDecrypted2019Jun30 No-Intro Nintendo DS]
|2019-06-30
|{{✗}}
|File names are in alphabetical order.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro_Nintendo_DSi_2018-06-30 No-Intro Nintendo DSi]
|2018-06-30
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/NintendoDSiDLC2019 Nintendo DSiWare]
|2019-01-29
|{{✗}}
|Formatted to .nds, can be used on homebrewed DSi's running [[Emulators_on_3DS#Nintendo_DS|TWiLight Menu]] or converted into a .cia for 3DS. Will NOT work on any emulators (in theory could work with [[No$|No$GBA]]).
|-
|Redump PS2 NTSC-U ([https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01 Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part2 Part 2], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part3 Part 3], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part4 Part 4])
|2018-08-01
|{{✗}}
|Game IDs are used for file titles. CD-based games are .bin files, DVD-based games are .iso files.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystationAmericaGames02October2017 Redump PS1 America]
|2017-10-02
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/@john_mr_smith?sort=titleSorter John (Mr) Smith]
|
|{{✗}}
|Uploads Redump PS1 NTSC-U and PAL sets.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-09-06 No-Intro Collection]
|2017-06-27
|{{✗}}
|Outdated.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/gamecubenaiso Complete North American GameCube Collection]
|2015-09-13
|{{✗}}
|Redump SCRUBBED ISO image files. To bypass registration look in comments for magnet link (torrent).
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/SgaStrnCmplt Redump Saturn]
|2015-09-13
|{{✗}}
|Includes manuals and magazines.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/2020_01_06_fbn FinalBurn Neo]
|2021-10-27
|{{✗}}
|Maintained and updated regularly.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/no-intro_romsets No-Intro Collection]
|2021-10-29
|{{✓}}
|Maintained and updated regularly.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/SCD32X_Arquivista Sega CD], [https://archive.org/details/SS_Arquivista Sega Saturn], [https://archive.org/details/PCECD_Arquivista PC Engine CD], [https://archive.org/details/ps1_arquivista_parte2 PlayStation (Part 2)], [https://archive.org/details/3DO_Arquivista 3DO], [https://archive.org/details/NGCD_ARQ Neo Geo CD], [https://archive.org/details/PCFX_Arquivista PC-FX]
|2020-08-03
|{{✗}}
|A collection of [http://database.trurip.org/ trurip/EmulationArchive] sets.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/EF_PC-FX_Collection Redump NEC PC-FX]
|2020-02-13
|{{✗}}
|Complete collection (at least as of 2020-09-05). Some titles are outdated, so files themselves and contents of .CUE files will have to be renamed.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/redump.pcecd Redump NEC PC Engine CD & TurboGrafx CD]
|2021-09-10
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/1-g-1-r-terra-onion-snk-neo-geo Terraonion - SNK - Neo Geo (.neo format)]
|2021-04-02
|{{✗}}
|Terraonion (141) Torrent contains "SNK - Neo Geo - NEOs + TOSEC manuals.torrent"
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/no-intro-2021 No-Intro Collection]
|2022-03-04
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/C64_Preservation_Project_10th_Anniversary_Collection C64 Preservation Project 10th Anniversary Collection]
|2015-11-07
|{{✗}}
|Clean copies of Commodore 64 games in nbz and G64 format.
|}

==ROM & ISO websites==
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Content
! scope="col"|Registration Required?
! scope="col"|Rate Limited?
! scope="col"|<abbr title="The rating system consists of 5 circles. Black circles mean the rating.">Rating</abbr>
! scope="col"|Notes
|-
|[[File:Myrient.png|160px]]
[https://myrient.erista.me Myrient]
|Various
| No
| No
| <abbr title="Clean interface, no ads or queue, 1:1 Redump and No-Intro copies, etc.">⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️</abbr>
|A collection of almost if not all No-Intro and Redump sets accessible with no prior registration, no ads and unlimited download speed.
|-
|[[File:LegendsWorld.png|200px]]
[https://www.legendsworld.net/ Legends World]
| PC Games
| No
| No
| N/A
| Hosts many obscure games not found elsewhere. The files labeled "full demo" are actually full games.
|-
|[[File:Ziperto.png|120px]]
[https://ziperto.com/ Ziperto]
| Most of Nintendo Games
| No
| Yes
| <abbr title="Site has a non-intuitive UI and is filled with ads without an adblocker.">⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Good for decrypted 3DS games for Citra and others. Use an adblocker.
|-
|[[File:Madloader.jpeg|60px]]
[https://madloader.com/ Madloader]
| 3DS
| No
| No
| <abbr title="From BintendoTwist's testing, the games available on here are next to none.">⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Decrypted 3DS and Switch games for Citra and Yuzu. Use an adblocker.
|-
|[[File:Romsie.png|120px]]
[https://romsie.com/ ROMsie]
| Various
| No
| No
| N/A
| ROMs up to 6th gen.
|-
|[[File:RomStation.png|120px]]
[https://www.romstation.fr/ RomStation]
| Various
| Yes
| Yes
| <abbr title="Likely the WORST ROM site in existence. Terrible user experience and has EXTREMELY slow speeds.">⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| ~30KB/s for free accounts. Run by shady people. Needs extra proprietary <s>spyware</s> software to download games. Has netplay. Downloads are limited and you often have to wait in a queue. Premium subscription unlocks Full Speed download and without queue. The PS1/DC/PSP part is full of bad dumps.
|-
|[[File:EmuGen.png|120px]]
[https://www.emugen.net/ EmuGen]
| Various
| No
| No
| <abbr title="Navigating through this website's download pages and categories feels like you're in a difficult maze, as they're all jumbled messes.>⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Collection of Various ROMs and Recent Nintendo Games.
|-
|[[File:Freeroms.png|120px]]
[https://www.freeroms.com/ FreeRoms]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
|-
|[[File:downloadgameps3.png|120px]] 
[https://dlpsgame.org/category/ps3/ DownloadGamePS3] 
[[File:downloadgamexbox.png|120px]] 
[https://downloadgamexbox.com/ DownloadGameXbox] 
[[File: downloadgamepsp.png|120px]] 
[https://downloadgamepsp.org DownloadGamePSP] 
[[File:downloadgamewii.png|120px]] 
[https://nswgame.com/ DownloadGameWii] 
| Various
| No
| Partially
| <abbr title="TBA">⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| 1.PS2/PS3/PS4 games. 2.Xbox Classic/360 games. 3.PSP/PS Vita games. 4.Wii/Wii U/3DS/Switch games. When using this site, make sure to have a good adblocker to protect you from malicious ads and whatnot.
|-
|[[File:Vim'slair.png|120px]]
[https://vimm.net/ Vimm's Lair]
| Various
| No
| No
|<abbr title="In most cases, download speeds are ~900 KBs, but has the friendliest UI for starters. Interacts badly with VPNs and adblock.">⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| A lot of games up to 7th generation, as well as scans of the manuals. All dumps are matching Redump or No-Intro, however GameCube and Wii dumps are scrubbed. *Note that scrubbed discs can be restored to 1:1 copies using Nkit.
|-
|[[File:CDromance.png|120px]]
[https://cdromance.com CDRomance]
| Various
| No
| No
|<abbr title="Modern UI, Sort and Filter games by downloads, excellent speeds!">⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️</abbr>
| Contains PSP ISOs and PSX2PSP eboots collection but also PS2, PS1, Gamecube, NDS, GBA, GB, SNES, many ROM hacks and English patched games. Also contains a collection of PSP DLCs.
|-
|[https://www.blueroms.ws/ BlueRoms]
| Various
| No
| No
| <abbr title="Has much less content and takes longer to get to the download link than Myrient. Many games are also torrent only.">⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Collection of various ROMs and ISOs, from Arcade and SNES to 3DS and PS3. All dumps are matching Redump or No-Intro, download via direct download or torrent. It has descriptions, covers, and screenshots of the games, simple and functional interface to browse/search and there are no ads.
|-
|[[File:Portableroms.png|120px]]
[https://portableroms.com/ PortableRoms]
| Various
| No
| No
|<abbr title="Many 3DS games have no boxart, download pages do not work, hasn't been updated since 2018.">⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Collection of various ROMs.
|-
|[[File:Gamulator.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.gamulator.com/ Gamulator]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Small website where you can download all sorts of retro console ROMs and ISOs.
|-
|[[File:Romsplanet.png|120px]]
[https://romsplanet.com/ RomsPlanet]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| One of the biggest ROM collections for PlayStation, Game Boy, Nintendo, etc.
|-
|[[File:Coolrom.gif|120px]]
[http://www.coolrom.com/ CoolROM]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
|-
|[[File:Romsdownload.jpeg|120px]]
[https://romsdownload.net/ RomsDownload]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus some 6th and 7th gen.
|-
|[[File:Killerrom.jpeg|120px]]
[https://roms-download.com/ Roms-Download.com (Killerroms)]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| A website which contains ROMs from Magnavox Odyssey to Wii. Roms on this site originate from a website called s2roms.cc A.K.A Killer Roms.
|-
|[[File: Emuparadise.jpeg|100px]]
[http://emuparadise.me/ Emuparadise]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Good for [http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?56293 No-Intro sets (which require registration).] Since Emuparadise removing ROMs download links from view, [https://gist.githubusercontent.com/lorossi/f40daeb9bc69fdfed2ea59eaa70e2fba/raw/0ae3485e56367c2e4201d940d6c822b83413b7ec/emuparadise.js a TamperMonkey/GreaseMonkey script] is currently required for downloading ROMs from it (outside of the forums).
|-
|[[File:Romsuniverse.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.romsuniverse.com/ RomUniverse]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
|-
|[[File:Planetemu.png|120px]]
[http://www.planetemu.net Planet Emulation]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Very old, weekly updated and classy French ROM site, full MAME CHDs. Just click on "Telecharger" for download. (All ROMs from Nintendo-based systems have been taken down as of July 2018.)
|-
|[[File:Gametronik.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.gametronik.com GameTronik]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| French ROM site.
|-
|[[File:Atarimania.jpeg|80px]]
[http://www.atarimania.com/rom_collection_archive_atari_2600_roms.html Atarimania]
| Atari 2600
| No
| No
| TBA
| Contains a complete Atari 2600 ROM set.
|-
|[[File:Pokemonlog.png|120px]]
[https://www.pokemonlog.com/ Pokemonlog]
| Pokémon Mod & Hacks
| No
| No
| TBA
| Small website where you can get the latest Pokémon ROMs and Pokémon ROM hacks.
|-
|[[File: Macintoshgames.gif|120px]]
[http://macintoshgarden.org/ Macintosh Garden]
| Macintosh
| No
| No
| TBA
| Abandonware archive for old Macintosh games. Popular vintage PC abandonware site, "Home of the Underdogs", originally hosted this site. It has small guides to running a few Macintosh emulators.
|-
|[[File:MacintoshRepository.png|80px]]
[https://www.macintoshrepository.org/ Macintosh Repository]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| A website with a lot of software from old Apple computers, including games.
|-
|[[File:macgamefiles.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.macgamefiles.com/list/shareware/ MacGameFiles.com]
| Macintosh
| No
| No
| TBA
| Site dedicated to basic shareware and demo versions of Macintosh games; as well as patches, mods and tools.
|-
|[[File:AsciiExpress.png|200px]]
[https://asciiexpress.net/ AsciiExpress]
| Apple II
| No
| No
| TBA
| Little collection of Apple II games + some miscellaneous files.
|-
|[[File:JPCC.png|200px]]
[http://japanesepccompendium.blogspot.com/ JapaneseCompendium]
| Old PC Games Jpn
| No
| No
| TBA
| A blog dedicated to old PC games from Japan.
|-
|[[File:Romsget.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.romsget.io/ ROMsGet]

[[File:Romsgames.png|120px]]

[https://www.downloadroms.io/ Download ROMs]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii.
|-
|[[File:emuroms.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.emuroms.ch/en EmuRoms.ch]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Torrent site for ROMs and ISOs. Has ROMs up to the 3DS. Also, it has the same layout as the now dead Portal Roms.
|-
|[[File:worldofspectrum.jpeg|120px]]
[http://worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]
| ZX Spectrum
| No
| No
| TBA
| For ZX Spectrum games and applications as well magazines, cover art, booklets, and much more. ROMs and tape images on the site were released with permission from their original authors.
|-

|[[File:Retrostic.png|120px]]
[https://www.retrostic.com/ RetroStic]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus NDS.
|-
|[[File:abandonwarefrance.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.abandonware-france.org/ Abandonware France]
| DOS
| No
| No
| TBA
| Also, a French ROM site.
|-
|[[File:Markdown.jpeg|120px]]
[https://r-roms.github.io/ Rom Center Markdown Edition 2022 (/r/Roms Mega Thread)]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Center made with MkDocs in Github, Edition 2021.Documentation of places to get roms, curated by [https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms /r/Roms on Reddit]
|-
|[[File:mame.jpeg|120px]]
[http://mamedev.org/roms/ MAME]
| MAME
| No
| No
| TBA
| Directly from the MAME site. Games that were released with permission for free and non-commercial use.
|-
|[[File:Eagleforest.jpeg|120px]]
[http://eagleforces.tistory.com/ eagleforces]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Hosted in South Korea, has no-intro sets for various 8 and 16-bit consoles available as individually downloadable ROMs. Links are direct with no redirects, confirmation pages, or captchas.
|-
|[[File:switchrls.jpeg|100px]]
[https://switchrls.co/ Switchrls]
| Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu. Use an adblocker.
|-
|[[File:Xcinsp.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.xcinsp.com/ XCINSP]
| Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
|-
|[[File:8i99.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.8i99.com/forum-2-1.html jiyouWang]
| Nintendo Switch
| Yes
| No
| TBA
| Chinese site, decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
|-
|[[File:Romulation.png|120px]]
[http://www.romulation.net Romulation]
| Various
| Yes
| Yes
| TBA
| Useful for Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 etc, maybe no-intro rips. (account required - use bugmenot or make one with a temp email account) (Many games (including most Nintendo titles) have been DMCA'd as of January 2017).
|-
|[[File:Pleasuredom.gif|120px]]
[https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/ Pleasuredome]
| MAME & Non-MAME
| No
| No
| TBA
| Was once a great private tracker for getting full sets of many systems (MAME, No-Intro, GoodSets, Trurip, Redump, TOSEC) as well as miscellaneous content like video game magazines and [[Daphne]] laserdisc rips that were almost impossible to find elsewhere. Did not allow newer systems, and was a strict ratio site that required you to maintain a positive upload to download ratio. In 2021 the tracker and forum were permanently closed, and only the MAME & Non-MAME ROMs and wiki remain. There are several other gaming-focused private trackers, but none have open registration.
|-
|[[File:Theoldcomputer.png|200px]]
[https://www.theoldcomputer.com/ TheOldComputer]
| DOS
| Yes
| No
| TBA
|
|-
|[[File:Arcadepunks.png|80px]]
[https://www.arcadepunks.com/arcade-punks-arcade-building-modding-and-gaming-forum/your-shares-and-download-shares/ Arcade Punks]
| Various
| Yes (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post))
| No
| TBA
|
|-
|[[File:Emudesc.png|120px]]
[https://www.emudesc.com Emudesc]
| Various
| Yes (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post)) 
| No
| TBA
| Spanish forum site where you can find Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Nintendo DS, 3DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable roms (possibly more stuff too).
|-
|[[File:k73.png|120px]]
[http://www.k73.com/ k73]
| Various
| ?
| Yes
| TBA
| A Chinese site that relies on Baidu as a hosting service. Whenever prompted to install an external application (really persistent malware), most if not all links are not premium. Has lots of Chinese fan-translations as well as Japanese games on newer consoles that are not usually uploaded, and more importantly latest gen dumps.
|-
|[[File:oldmanemu.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.oldmanemu.net/ oldmanemu]
| Various
| Yes
| No
| TBA
| Chinese site for getting full rom sets of various systems. Files are hosted on Baidu/CTFile/115.
|-
|[[File:Romhustler.jpeg|120px]]
[http://romhustler.net/ ROM Hustler]
| Various
| ?
| Yes
| TBA
| Has Renascene PlayStation Portable dumps. Has a good selection of games from all consoles Gen-6 and earlier. Limited to one download at a time; additional attempts "503" while a download is active. Currently you can't download Nintendo related ROMs from here.
|-
|[[File:Romtohome.png|100px]]
[https://romtohome.com/ RomToHome]
| Various
| No
| Yes
| TBA
| ~50kB/s downloads, but has proper scene releases for a variety of consoles including (but not limited to) Wii U, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo 3DS, DS and PlayStation Portable.
|-
|[[File:ps1gameonline.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.ps1games.online/ PS1Games]
| PS1/2/PSP
| No
| No
| TBA
| Contains a complete PSP, PS2 and PSX ISOs.
|-
|[[File:Popuo.jpeg|200px]]
[https://popuw.com/ popuw]
| Various Prince of Persia Games
| No
| No
| TBA
| Contains Prince of Persia 1/2/3D games.
|-
|[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7vPmuZfN3snMU0zYlBXSWVhOUE WiiWare and Virtual Console WADs]
| WiiWare
| No
| No
| TBA
| Also hosted on Google Drive, can be used on Dolphin or a modded Wii.
|-
|[https://1fichier.com/dir/uExVcS2h Partial PlayStation 2 Redump (2016/03/19)]
| PlayStation 2
| No
| Yes
| TBA
| PS2 (5046/6863 games).
|-
|[[File:Nxbrew.jpeg|120px]]
[https://nxbrew.com/ NXBrew]
| Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| Downloads to the latest Nintendo Switch Games, NSPs, XCIs, Homebrews, & CFWs etc. Use an adblocker.
|-
|[[File:Hshop.png|120px]]
[https://hshop.erista.me/ hShop]
| Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website has 3DS games (including retail, eShop, and Virtual Console), updates, DLC, Virtual Console (official and injects), Themes, and DsiWare in .cia format. You can download them directly or through FBI Remote Install through a QR Code.
|-
|[[File:64DD_logo.png|120px]]
[https://64dd.org/ 64DD.org]
| Nintendo 64DD
| No
| No
| TBA
| Collection of dumps for 64DD games.
|-
|[[File:RomsDL.png|150px]]
[https://romsdl.com/ RomsDL]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Roms up to 6th generation.
|-
|[[File:nsw2u.png|120px]]
[https://nsw2u.xyz nsw2u]
| Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many games and updates in .nsp, .ncz, and .XCI formats. The website uses dedicated hosts and torrents, though sometimes the torrent files do not work.
|-
|[[File:MyAbandonware.png|180px]]
[https://www.myabandonware.com/ My Abandonware]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Old abandoned PC and console games.
|-
|[[File:romsever.png|120px]]
[https://romsever.com romsever]
| Playstation, Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many games and updates in .iso, .xci, .nsp, .ncz and many other PKG formats.
|-
|[[File:SwitchXCIROMS.png|180px]]
[https://switchxciroms.com/ SwitchXCIROMS]
| Switch ROMs, Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many games and updates in .xci, .nsp, .ncz and many other PKG formats.
|-
|[[File:Bytebay.png|180px]]
[https://sites.google.com/view/bytebay/home Bytebay]
| Nintendo, SEGA, and PlayStation
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries databases of ROM sets for dedicated systems related to Nintendo, SEGA, or PlayStation.
|-
|[[File:Emuline.png|200px]]
[https://www.emuline.org/ Emuline]
| Various
| Yes (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post))
| No
| TBA
| A forum for arcade PC dumps, Teknoparrot games, and many ROMs & ISOs.
|-
|[https://edgeemu.net/ EdgeEmu]
|Various
|No
|No
|TBA
|Contains roms for all atari consoles,as well as nintendo (up to 6th gen), sega,and some lesser known conles( 3D0, CDI). It also contains some arcade roms
|-
|[https://stratoemulator.com/roms/ StratoEmulator ROMs Page]
| Switch ROMs, Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many games in .xci, and .nsp format along with the latest DLCs and updates.
|
|-
|[https://emuthreeds.com/roms/ EmuThreeDS 3DS ROMs Page]
| Nintendo 3DS
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many Nintendo 3DS games in .3ds, and .cia format along with the latest DLCs and updates.
|}

==BitTorrent==
:''Note: [https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist Here's a list of public trackers you can use] to increase the amount of peers you can reach, and [http://magnet2torrent.com a service that attempts to convert magnet links into torrent files] in case your BitTorrent client doesn't support magnets.''

====Trackers====
*[http://rutracker.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=548 RuTracker] Account required for some stuff, site entirely in Russian, use [https://translate.google.com/ translate] if you really need to.
**PlayStation Redump: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6C5088295FAE49B5F2D92EF70B31F0377C05D824 USA (2015-05-24)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DD381766675FBCE1204CFB4A260B2D97D43AD403 Japan (2015-11-03)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3D41D4E6024AA4AB905BF0E6354D57F680C654F3 Europe (2015-11-03)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4F8D3549E1B536D5B2B183592DC574404A9C5135 TOSEC Dreamcast set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e5ef752f78ccd368580467ed26edf2435ca1911 TOSEC Sega CD and 32X set] Format is .cue, .wav and .iso and therefore may not work with some emulators (bin/cue preferred)
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6CCAAF9A361C6D2A0B79A1009322C0F8853BFB1D TOSEC 3DO set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:EE6BB932A4C451FD8DEB1B2C85CCDD3347C7C63A TOSEC Philips CD-i set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0E7DE4C2E472ECB20265C95D4056BF6ACDEED442 TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2014)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:29F45A7759986DB92A64A3330EDF4FF3F92B0652 TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2017)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8681F7465E7372E938BED103D3AE60C46254C706 DS/DSi 2014 Fullset]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:10DC9442DCF9DE5AAEA392B60C4AD22571C4860A Sega Saturn Redump (2018-12-15)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4709A0865B6252583E016699C41666AEEFEDA3C5 SNK Neo Geo CD TruRip (v2017-04-07)]
**eXoDOS v3.11 [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6D2FA6349C36C81911C67071014AC9083258B99D Vol. I: Adventure], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3428222C030A98463B44BBE8E1C401846517C8FF Vol. II: RPG], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:18CC5F44256E20C111990ACB87CE9EE6B6E1CEAB Vol III: Strategy], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:25377847E91B1B9397A6BF0CA384E861FB15A175 Vol IV: Sim/Sports/Racing/Edu], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5AB329B89F73048560882542AEC3B427827E65B4 Vol 5: Action]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6B901594EF61DA8E2D498F88B05D5ACEDD16E881 eXoDOS v4.0]
*[https://nnmclub.to/forum/viewforum.php?f=382 NNM-Club] Another entirely Russian tracker, which requires account for some stuff.
**Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2013/01/25 (NTSC-U): [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0C7FDC9EFAEFEEADB09767D0603769BAAAE04D72 (#-L)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1DDFA4E6D7BFCA0415828AD02C8109D15483BF77 (M-Z)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C67A5ED64ABFB15FFF5963C224A420CD24AD9782 (Additional disk images)]
**Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2017/06/13 (NTSC-U): [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DAC912D9A80825B2B684CC7E3E6B97AE37F4BD67 (#-I)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44D9C1B2D276E73AD3A607DAF623BDC8B44EB54A (J-R)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B015B9A84113A789CC9B80D4D900A56E5D0C2047 (S-Z)]
**ADVANsCEne Playstation Portable: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B69374F9275183F1470B35156C78AFE34BE9893A 0001-2000], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24E6917035F53FC486D4766A81A6D4CA6C56EAA3 2001-3200], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4D8F75E6ECBCF3B569C4EC111BC307A3E4E096F3 3200-3336]
**Nintendo Wii America: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3BF9642C00E8569466B0B7E33FD602AAE7D3423C (#-L)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2D11F2DC7009A2B90C9FDD3D90FE37499AB8D796 (M-S)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:735F2C09160DB98F8A06273AD137DB58A692AC08 (T-Z)]
**Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2015-04-29: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:99beaaaccd5401c6b34ff5d573af57c21cbf64fa (PAL)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CB4F13E0F4640C6679DF9F06EE24F6829034B195 (NTSC-U)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:193528501DFB0495D23ECFED77CB5BC329DF6A38 (NTSC-J)]
**Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2018-08-25: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:84050DEB436A9A6F84CB2C66773CD8EB4462F77F (PAL)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C1A1F862240B916A0D6C31337D97B2C8268E815E (NTSC-U)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:90A8BF78651B1213ADBCDBAB20C06756513EA572 (NTSC-J)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B6AA4211BB8382AD750354E91406817411BED18F Sega Dreamcast TOSEC as of 01.11.2017 + SelfBoot 0.08 as of 17.03.2011]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:E9CB345A0378F3F76344D315C65FA5E423B6190C Nintendo 3DS 2011-2014 dump](In dire need of region sorting)
*[https://1337x.to/user/1G1R/ 1337x] for complete [https://www.romcenter.com/wiki/doku.php?id=1g1r 1G1R] collections. No account required but adblocker is advised
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:A46C4DB9BFD21F9603F292C0BF31DCE96E81CF1F Redump Dreamcast 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C1B091BA342CA25BA69D1BE48298E5F23641698C Redump Neo Geo CD 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0ADA900ABA4C50704F89F397A2D7DD52810D9688 No-Intro N64 (Nintendo 64) 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:400C89637C90B1E740E1942AF0092C1BB4FD31E0 Redump/No-Intro Sega CD/32X 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CD12E577669007597F56B3B45B5F69BA0C63CEC6 Redump PS1 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:98670EB66853F84E1B0C5F3D116232E4C5C4FE84 Redump PS1 1G1R set (Part 2)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:41BF287877E774B717974657F122433DABF9B383 No-Intro TurboGrafx-16 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C5771EBA6479E41781820CF083CD5C1FB7453592 No-Intro Atari Jaguar 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cd240a9644e5808ca04bc3f503071679633b1bb9 Redump GameCube 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:E6079EB70F40E17FBF3AB01E720F71EEFDCC1DDD Redump TurboGrafx CD 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:646048C99CBD033331CD4E44CFC7AE1182E245CB Redump PlayStation Portable PSP + PSN 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9F40CAB1E282BE8485F803DFBD3C6F761CAC04B7 Redump Atari Jaguar CD 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:D6DA390292CEED3EA99B1C930805DF81E04FC3E1 MAMEdevs Neo Geo MVS-AES 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1B6C0392A0415DD18D245E3A287B76248214BE33 Redump Sega Saturn 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8AE1B7B14D7EA42CB8AAA89A49875FCAF27FB58B Redump Nintendo Wii 1G1R set (Part 2)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3E413C2209CA437FDCD26945AC0E2EB120FA7C40 Redump Nintendo Wii 1G1R set (Part 3)]
*[https://www.thepiratebay.org/ ThePirateBay] (not recommended)

====Outside the trackers====
*Independent romset releases.
**No-Intro Collection, a set comparable to the Internet Archive ones above but with individual archives per title instead of per system. [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e0945d7c483c5e8e3fa69ffa830c9a1a35d2a778&dn=No-Intro%20Collection%20(2019.09.16)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.open-internet.nl%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftorrent.nwps.ws%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.demonii.si%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrentyorg.pl%3a80%2fannounce 2019-9-16], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86bced531d727cb17acca8bdb7d13ec5c7d024a2&dn=No-Intro%20Roms%201%20(2018-05-13)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce 2018-5-13]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d2c94aaddb5fb1099b3c75077d5212389d26df32&dn=No-Intro%20Nintendo%20DSiWare%20(2019-01-01)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce No-Intro Nintendo DSi (DLC) 2019-1-1], a DSiWare set comparable to the Internet Archive one but with individual files.
*Wii digital software megapack, a reorganized mirror of MarioCube wads: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2f97e146f67dcbbf390191ae38000160a2d5f928&dn=WII%20DIGITAL%202019-7-26&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce as of 2019-07-26], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0486296da4a726d4ff1fb07e6a40c4ae2babcd1e&dn=WII+DIGITAL+2019-2-5 as of 2019-02-05]
*[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3c9aaade428f69f09b722bbe4025063cd0f3cb58&dn=WiiWare+and+Virtual+Console+Complete+Collection+NTSC-U ALL NTSC WiiWare titles]

===Tools & emulator forks for auto-download===
*[https://github.com/TiBeN/ia-rcade ia-rcade] Auto downloads the game you choose for [[MAME]].
*[http://www.daphne-emu.com/download/daphne-1.0v-win32.zip Daphne Loader] Auto downloads [[LaserDisc]] games for [[DAPHNE]] (except Digital Leisure games).

==Official Dumps==
===Nintendo Wii U===
Nintendo used to deliver games the same way Sony does with the PlayStation Network; with a big encrypted disk image where all the data is useless without an authentication key. Unfortunately, they've changed this for 3DS and Switch, but not for Wii U (yet).

You need a titlekey database, covering base games, updates, and DLCs. A notable one is [https://titlekeys.ovh/ titlekeys.ovh]. '''Note''' you're still restricted to games that are on the eShop and that people bothered to upload their tickets to that titlekey site, so rare or retail-only games are excluded. You can likely still find these types of games from ROM sites above.

On real Wii U hardware, you could also download a package of all tickets ever of all regions and trick the official eShop into thinking you own the game and can redownload it, but on real hardware, it has been reported some out-of-region tickets cause problems. freeShop will just install the tickets you need for the game you chose.

If you're using [[Cemu]] with physical dumps, you'll also need [http://pastebin.com/GWApZVLa the Common Wii U Key, and individual game keys] for games you're emulating.

Once you have the titlekey database including your game, you can download the game off the official servers using your tool of choice.

====NUS Downloaders (PC)====
You can get Wii U dumps this way. First of all get the NUS Downloader, for example [https://github.com/FailedShack/USBHelperInstaller/releases/latest Wii U USB Helper] or [https://github.com/Xpl0itU/WiiUDownloader/releases/tag/v2.27]. Make sure to use the appropriate URL for the titlekey database.

Then, it's as simple as selecting the game you want to download, clicking "Get It" and then "Download Games". This will download the files for the game you chose (the same as the .tik's title). Choose your own region where possible, so the servers are closer to you.

Once the download is complete:

* '''Wii U dumps:''' You can either install the game to your Wii U by moving it to an SD Card and using [http://wiiubru.com/appstore/#/app/wup_installer_gx2 WUP Installer GX2], or if you're using the deprecated Loadiine (or [[Cemu]]), you can "Convert" it "to Loadiine/CIA". Simply right-click your newly downloaded game, and then click "Prepare for Emulation". The .rpx file will be available in the game's folder, at /code/[yourgame].rpx.

Updates and DLCs can be downloaded the same way. Right click on a game's name to choose which to download. For Wii U games for emulation on Cemu:

To install updates and DLC on Cemu:
* Run the game at least once.
* Check Cemu's log.txt file and look for a line that says "Mounting local storage (AOC): .\mlc01\usr\title\NUMBERS\NUMBERS\aoc\"
* Add (create) folders with the same name as the above (substituting the "NUMBERS" bit with the actual numbers) in your "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title" folder.
* Add any updates (which must be added first) you want to the "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title/NUMBERS/NUMBERS/" folder.
* Create a folder named "aoc" and put the DLC files into there. The "code", "content", and "meta" folders of the actual game itself also go in the "aoc" folder.

===Sony PSP / Vita / PlayStation 3===
Similar situation as Nintendo. As of now, you need RAP license files and the game dump proper to install your game on your CFW'd console, or on real hardware. Some people offer their own license files on some applications and websites so that everyone can get their dumps. Of course, these are limited to popular games people bothered to upload their license files for and only digital games.

The [http://psndl.net/packages PSNdl] website is a good way to get PlayStation 3 games for example, including PlayStation Classic versions of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 dumps that can be extracted and run on regular emulators. Make sure to get the RAP license as well. The pkg file can be decrypted with tools like [https://sites.google.com/site/theleecherman/psnpkgdecryptor-extractor psnpkgdecryptor-extractor] (useful for ripping PlayStation Classics), though emulators like RPCS3 now offer built-in installers for those, and PlayStation 3 CFW supports those as well.

PSNStuffX is another PC downloader tool that comes with a database and covers some games that PSNdl doesn't.

An even newer project is [https://nopaystation.com/ NoPayStation], offering both a database of pkg links and licenses, as well as a Windows downloader and auto-converter: [https://nopaystation.com/vita/npsReleases/ NPS Browser]

For PlayStation 3 game updates, go to <code>https://a0.ww.np.dl.playstation.net/tpl/np/{game_id}/{game_id}-ver.xml</code> (replacing both <code>{game_id}</code> with the game's ID) to see links to available update .pkgs for that game.

[https://github.com/blastrock/pkgj PKGj] for the PlayStation Vita can be downloaded from within VitaDeploy and comes with a database of PKG files and ISOs for Vita and PSP/PS1 games respectively, all of which can be extracted and played on the usual emulators.

==Nintendo Amiibo==
[[Amiibo]] are special figurines that interact with a number of 3DS, Wii U and Switch games. Depending on how hard they are to find, they can either be bought at a local retailer or on eBay for a fortune. NFC tags are dumped to binary files (.bin). [[Android emulators|Android]] users can use [https://github.com/HiddenRamblings/TagMo/releases TagMo] to read and write these files, provided they have the [https://pastebin.com/aV23ha3X appropriate encryption keys.]

* [https://mega.nz/#F!Ek8BCCqD!ggJQ4SVOtfTR74ohXvn-Ng Here's the most complete Amiibo set]

==Verifying Good Dumps==
{{Main|File_Hashes#Determining_Good_Game_Dumps}}

==Game Recommendations==
Game recommendations are highly subjective, but big lists like these usually cover the worthwhile games for each system.
*[http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki//v/%27s_Recommended_Games_Wiki /v/'s Recommended Games Wiki]
*[http://retro-sanctuary.com/Top%20Games%20Main.html Retro-Sanctuary's Top 100 Lists]
*[http://www.racketboy.com/guide/games-that-defined-retro-gaming-machines Racketboy's Defining Games]
*[http://www.racketboy.com/guide/hidden-gems Racketboy's Hidden Gems]
[[Category:Recommendations]]

==Searching for ISOs==
A lot of the above sites have ISOs for disc-based games, but some of the more obscure titles can be hard to find. If you want to find these games, searching for their ID number is generally more effective than searching for their title. This number is region specific and is very useful if you want to find an ISO from a specific region.

==Download Managers==
Many resources we've listed will link to files called .DLCs that contain a list of urls to download. We've voluntarily listed some programs you can use in the event that you come across one and don't want to deal with the links manually.

*[http://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2 JDownloader 2] (Adware-free installer) - Written in Java, and quite possibly the most recognized tool for the job.
*[https://pyload.net/ pyLoad] - Written in Python under AGPL3, PyLoad is a good alternative.
*[https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive Internet Archive Python Library] - Archive.org specific command-line download tool.
*[https://github.com/silverlays/NoIntro-Roms-Downloader NoIntro Roms Downloader v2] - Download "datted" ROMs from the popular NoIntro libraries on archive.org (listing live updated) with user-friendly interface (only Windows release for now)

==See Also==
*[[Ripping Games]] - If you don't feel comfortable downloading ROMs you can try dumping the game yourself.

ROM & ISO sites

2023-11-20T14:58:02Z

Emulator Geek: /* ROM & ISO websites */

If you are looking for BIOS/Firmware files, you can find them on the [[Emulator Files]] page.

==Downloads==
===Internet Archive===
Add a slash (<code>/</code>) after the URLs to view the contents of compressed archives from the browser. This helps you avoid downloading upwards of 400 gigabytes just to get only a fraction of the contents. The archive also creates torrents of each entry (that are not the same as any original torrents the user may have uploaded) that you can use to speed up your downloads, but be warned however that these torrents can be problematic if the uploader has added/removed/renamed files in the collection as they tend to not update correctly, if at all, so you may end up with only part of the collection, or an older version of the collection. A better recommendation is to use [[#Download Managers|a download manager listed below]] to grab all the files rather than use the torrents.
:'''''NOTE:''' If downloads are restricted (greyed out), copy the file name and append it to the end of the URL (ie: <nowiki>https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack -> https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack/ROMPack.zip</nowiki>)''

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
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!Set
!Date
!Registration Required
!Notes
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|[https://archive.org/download/ni-roms/roms/ NI ROM Sets]
|2023-06-05
|{{✗}}
|Huge collection of updated No-Intro ROM Sets
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/pspminis pspminis][https://archive.org/details/pspminigamecollection pspminigamecollection]
|
|{{✗}}
|294 psp mini games
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/efarcadeversionroms Arcade Version Roms]
|
|{{✗}}
|Caveui v1.3.3 Shooting Complete, Demul v0.7 Full Roms, FinalBunr Alpha v0.2.97.34Full Roms, Mame4All v2.3 Full Roms, Mame4Droid v0.139u1 Full Roms, Mame32 Plus! v0.84u5, Nebula v2.25b Full Roms, NeoRAGEx Full Roms, Raine v0.64.16 Full Roms, Raine v0.91.4 Full Roms, SEGA Model 2 v1.1a Full Roms, SEGA Supermodel v0.2a Full Roms, Win Kawaks v1.65 Full Roms, Zinc v1.1 Full Roms
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/latest-everdrive-pack-2020-04-16 SmokeMonster's ROM Packs]
|2020-06-29
|{{✗}}
|[https://i.imgur.com/vEtcYaP.png All links have been purged], 2018 torrent can be found on piratebay or 2020 pack with this [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:26a20a07a81c1df113b008973a2df2649690d9a0&dn=Latest%20Everdrive%20pack%20%202020-04-16&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.to%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.me%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.cyberia.is%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker3.itzmx.com%3a6961%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker1.itzmx.com%3a8080%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.stealth.si%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.ds.is%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fopen.acgnxtracker.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fretracker.lanta-net.ru%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker4.itzmx.com%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.moeking.me%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fp4p.arenabg.ch%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fipv4.tracker.harry.lu%3a80%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fp4p.arenabg.com%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.bt4g.com%3a2095%2fannounce torrent magnet]
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/messmame?sort=-publicdate MAME and MESS]
|
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/sega-mega-cd-sega-cd-chds Redump Sega - Mega-CD - Sega CD CHDs]
|2020-09-13
|{{✗}}
|Redump (526/530) Torrent contains "Sega - Mega-CD - Sega CD - CHDs.torrent"
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/redump Redump.org Sets]
|
|{{✗}}
|A massive collection of most of the Redump sets. A good place to start for those new to collecting.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/xboxcds?sort=-publicdate Redump Original Xbox]
|
|{{✗}}
|Extract with [https://github.com/XboxDev/extract-xiso extract-xiso].
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/RedumpSegaSaturn2019October17MIA1 Redump Sega - Saturn]
|2019-10-17
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/snk-neo-geo-cd-chds Redump SNK - Neo Geo CD - CHDs]
|2020-09-17
|{{✗}}
|Redump (101/101) Torrent contains: "SNK - Neo Geo CD - CHDs.torrent"
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/RedumpSnkNeoGeoCd16Oct2019 Redump SNK - Neo Geo CD]
|2019-10-16
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/tosec?sort=-publicdate TOSEC] (The Old School Emulation Center)
|
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/@manydumpedgames TOSEC - Sega Dreamcast]
|
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware Vintage Software]
|
|{{✗}}
|Many DOS collections and older games.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17 Neo-Kobe NEC PC-9801]
|2017-11-17
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/Neo_Kobe_NEC_PC-8801_2016-02-25 Neo-Kobe NEC PC-8801]
|2016-02-25
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|Redump Wii America ([https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart1 1], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart2 2], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart3 3], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart3_201802 4], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart5 5], [https://archive.org/details/Httpsarchive.orgdetailsRedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart6 6])
|2017-09-07
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/Cyles_Gameboy_roms Complete Gameboy Roms]
|2019-02-19
|{{✗}}
|US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/CylesSNESRomPack Complete Super Nintendo RomPack]
|2019-02-11
|{{✗}}
|US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-01-03_Fixed No-Intro Collection]
|2016-01-03
|{{✗}}
|Outdated.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/noIntroNintendoDsDecrypted2019Jun30 No-Intro Nintendo DS]
|2019-06-30
|{{✗}}
|File names are in alphabetical order.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro_Nintendo_DSi_2018-06-30 No-Intro Nintendo DSi]
|2018-06-30
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/NintendoDSiDLC2019 Nintendo DSiWare]
|2019-01-29
|{{✗}}
|Formatted to .nds, can be used on homebrewed DSi's running [[Emulators_on_3DS#Nintendo_DS|TWiLight Menu]] or converted into a .cia for 3DS. Will NOT work on any emulators (in theory could work with [[No$|No$GBA]]).
|-
|Redump PS2 NTSC-U ([https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01 Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part2 Part 2], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part3 Part 3], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part4 Part 4])
|2018-08-01
|{{✗}}
|Game IDs are used for file titles. CD-based games are .bin files, DVD-based games are .iso files.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystationAmericaGames02October2017 Redump PS1 America]
|2017-10-02
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/@john_mr_smith?sort=titleSorter John (Mr) Smith]
|
|{{✗}}
|Uploads Redump PS1 NTSC-U and PAL sets.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-09-06 No-Intro Collection]
|2017-06-27
|{{✗}}
|Outdated.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/gamecubenaiso Complete North American GameCube Collection]
|2015-09-13
|{{✗}}
|Redump SCRUBBED ISO image files. To bypass registration look in comments for magnet link (torrent).
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/SgaStrnCmplt Redump Saturn]
|2015-09-13
|{{✗}}
|Includes manuals and magazines.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/2020_01_06_fbn FinalBurn Neo]
|2021-10-27
|{{✗}}
|Maintained and updated regularly.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/no-intro_romsets No-Intro Collection]
|2021-10-29
|{{✓}}
|Maintained and updated regularly.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/SCD32X_Arquivista Sega CD], [https://archive.org/details/SS_Arquivista Sega Saturn], [https://archive.org/details/PCECD_Arquivista PC Engine CD], [https://archive.org/details/ps1_arquivista_parte2 PlayStation (Part 2)], [https://archive.org/details/3DO_Arquivista 3DO], [https://archive.org/details/NGCD_ARQ Neo Geo CD], [https://archive.org/details/PCFX_Arquivista PC-FX]
|2020-08-03
|{{✗}}
|A collection of [http://database.trurip.org/ trurip/EmulationArchive] sets.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/EF_PC-FX_Collection Redump NEC PC-FX]
|2020-02-13
|{{✗}}
|Complete collection (at least as of 2020-09-05). Some titles are outdated, so files themselves and contents of .CUE files will have to be renamed.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/redump.pcecd Redump NEC PC Engine CD & TurboGrafx CD]
|2021-09-10
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/1-g-1-r-terra-onion-snk-neo-geo Terraonion - SNK - Neo Geo (.neo format)]
|2021-04-02
|{{✗}}
|Terraonion (141) Torrent contains "SNK - Neo Geo - NEOs + TOSEC manuals.torrent"
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/no-intro-2021 No-Intro Collection]
|2022-03-04
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/C64_Preservation_Project_10th_Anniversary_Collection C64 Preservation Project 10th Anniversary Collection]
|2015-11-07
|{{✗}}
|Clean copies of Commodore 64 games in nbz and G64 format.
|}

==ROM & ISO websites==
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Content
! scope="col"|Registration Required?
! scope="col"|Rate Limited?
! scope="col"|<abbr title="The rating system consists of 5 circles. Black circles mean the rating.">Rating</abbr>
! scope="col"|Notes
|-
|[[File:Myrient.png|160px]]
[https://myrient.erista.me Myrient]
|Various
| No
| No
| <abbr title="Clean interface, no ads or queue, 1:1 Redump and No-Intro copies, etc.">⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️</abbr>
|A collection of almost if not all No-Intro and Redump sets accessible with no prior registration, no ads and unlimited download speed.
|-
|[[File:LegendsWorld.png|200px]]
[https://www.legendsworld.net/ Legends World]
| PC Games
| No
| No
| N/A
| Hosts many obscure games not found elsewhere. The files labeled "full demo" are actually full games.
|-
|[[File:Ziperto.png|120px]]
[https://ziperto.com/ Ziperto]
| Most of Nintendo Games
| No
| Yes
| <abbr title="Site has a non-intuitive UI and is filled with ads without an adblocker.">⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Good for decrypted 3DS games for Citra and others. Use an adblocker.
|-
|[[File:Madloader.jpeg|60px]]
[https://madloader.com/ Madloader]
| 3DS
| No
| No
| <abbr title="From BintendoTwist's testing, the games available on here are next to none.">⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Decrypted 3DS and Switch games for Citra and Yuzu. Use an adblocker.
|-
|[[File:Romsie.png|120px]]
[https://romsie.com/ ROMsie]
| Various
| No
| No
| N/A
| ROMs up to 6th gen.
|-
|[[File:RomStation.png|120px]]
[https://www.romstation.fr/ RomStation]
| Various
| Yes
| Yes
| <abbr title="Likely the WORST ROM site in existence. Terrible user experience and has EXTREMELY slow speeds.">⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| ~30KB/s for free accounts. Run by shady people. Needs extra proprietary <s>spyware</s> software to download games. Has netplay. Downloads are limited and you often have to wait in a queue. Premium subscription unlocks Full Speed download and without queue. The PS1/DC/PSP part is full of bad dumps.
|-
|[[File:EmuGen.png|120px]]
[https://www.emugen.net/ EmuGen]
| Various
| No
| No
| <abbr title="Navigating through this website's download pages and categories feels like you're in a difficult maze, as they're all jumbled messes.>⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Collection of Various ROMs and Recent Nintendo Games.
|-
|[[File:Freeroms.png|120px]]
[https://www.freeroms.com/ FreeRoms]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
|-
|[[File:downloadgameps3.png|120px]] 
[https://dlpsgame.org/category/ps3/ DownloadGamePS3] 
[[File:downloadgamexbox.png|120px]] 
[https://downloadgamexbox.com/ DownloadGameXbox] 
[[File: downloadgamepsp.png|120px]] 
[https://downloadgamepsp.org DownloadGamePSP] 
[[File:downloadgamewii.png|120px]] 
[https://nswgame.com/ DownloadGameWii] 
| Various
| No
| Partially
| <abbr title="TBA">⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| 1.PS2/PS3/PS4 games. 2.Xbox Classic/360 games. 3.PSP/PS Vita games. 4.Wii/Wii U/3DS/Switch games. When using this site, make sure to have a good adblocker to protect you from malicious ads and whatnot.
|-
|[[File:Vim'slair.png|120px]]
[https://vimm.net/ Vimm's Lair]
| Various
| No
| No
|<abbr title="In most cases, download speeds are ~900 KBs, but has the friendliest UI for starters. Interacts badly with VPNs and adblock.">⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| A lot of games up to 7th generation, as well as scans of the manuals. All dumps are matching Redump or No-Intro, however GameCube and Wii dumps are scrubbed. *Note that scrubbed discs can be restored to 1:1 copies using Nkit.
|-
|[[File:CDromance.png|120px]]
[https://cdromance.com CDRomance]
| Various
| No
| No
|<abbr title="Modern UI, Sort and Filter games by downloads, excellent speeds!">⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️</abbr>
| Contains PSP ISOs and PSX2PSP eboots collection but also PS2, PS1, Gamecube, NDS, GBA, GB, SNES, many ROM hacks and English patched games. Also contains a collection of PSP DLCs.
|-
|[https://www.blueroms.ws/ BlueRoms]
| Various
| No
| No
| <abbr title="Has much less content and takes longer to get to the download link than Myrient. Many games are also torrent only.">⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Collection of various ROMs and ISOs, from Arcade and SNES to 3DS and PS3. All dumps are matching Redump or No-Intro, download via direct download or torrent. It has descriptions, covers, and screenshots of the games, simple and functional interface to browse/search and there are no ads.
|-
|[[File:Portableroms.png|120px]]
[https://portableroms.com/ PortableRoms]
| Various
| No
| No
|<abbr title="Many 3DS games have no boxart, download pages do not work, hasn't been updated since 2018.">⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️</abbr>
| Collection of various ROMs.
|-
|[[File:Gamulator.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.gamulator.com/ Gamulator]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Small website where you can download all sorts of retro console ROMs and ISOs.
|-
|[[File:Romsplanet.png|120px]]
[https://romsplanet.com/ RomsPlanet]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| One of the biggest ROM collections for PlayStation, Game Boy, Nintendo, etc.
|-
|[[File:Coolrom.gif|120px]]
[http://www.coolrom.com/ CoolROM]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
|-
|[[File:Romsdownload.jpeg|120px]]
[https://romsdownload.net/ RomsDownload]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus some 6th and 7th gen.
|-
|[[File:Killerrom.jpeg|120px]]
[https://roms-download.com/ Roms-Download.com (Killerroms)]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| A website which contains ROMs from Magnavox Odyssey to Wii. Roms on this site originate from a website called s2roms.cc A.K.A Killer Roms.
|-
|[[File: Emuparadise.jpeg|100px]]
[http://emuparadise.me/ Emuparadise]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Good for [http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?56293 No-Intro sets (which require registration).] Since Emuparadise removing ROMs download links from view, [https://gist.githubusercontent.com/lorossi/f40daeb9bc69fdfed2ea59eaa70e2fba/raw/0ae3485e56367c2e4201d940d6c822b83413b7ec/emuparadise.js a TamperMonkey/GreaseMonkey script] is currently required for downloading ROMs from it (outside of the forums).
|-
|[[File:Romsuniverse.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.romsuniverse.com/ RomUniverse]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
|-
|[[File:Planetemu.png|120px]]
[http://www.planetemu.net Planet Emulation]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Very old, weekly updated and classy French ROM site, full MAME CHDs. Just click on "Telecharger" for download. (All ROMs from Nintendo-based systems have been taken down as of July 2018.)
|-
|[[File:Gametronik.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.gametronik.com GameTronik]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| French ROM site.
|-
|[[File:Atarimania.jpeg|80px]]
[http://www.atarimania.com/rom_collection_archive_atari_2600_roms.html Atarimania]
| Atari 2600
| No
| No
| TBA
| Contains a complete Atari 2600 ROM set.
|-
|[[File:Pokemonlog.png|120px]]
[https://www.pokemonlog.com/ Pokemonlog]
| Pokémon Mod & Hacks
| No
| No
| TBA
| Small website where you can get the latest Pokémon ROMs and Pokémon ROM hacks.
|-
|[[File: Macintoshgames.gif|120px]]
[http://macintoshgarden.org/ Macintosh Garden]
| Macintosh
| No
| No
| TBA
| Abandonware archive for old Macintosh games. Popular vintage PC abandonware site, "Home of the Underdogs", originally hosted this site. It has small guides to running a few Macintosh emulators.
|-
|[[File:MacintoshRepository.png|80px]]
[https://www.macintoshrepository.org/ Macintosh Repository]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| A website with a lot of software from old Apple computers, including games.
|-
|[[File:macgamefiles.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.macgamefiles.com/list/shareware/ MacGameFiles.com]
| Macintosh
| No
| No
| TBA
| Site dedicated to basic shareware and demo versions of Macintosh games; as well as patches, mods and tools.
|-
|[[File:AsciiExpress.png|200px]]
[https://asciiexpress.net/ AsciiExpress]
| Apple II
| No
| No
| TBA
| Little collection of Apple II games + some miscellaneous files.
|-
|[[File:JPCC.png|200px]]
[http://japanesepccompendium.blogspot.com/ JapaneseCompendium]
| Old PC Games Jpn
| No
| No
| TBA
| A blog dedicated to old PC games from Japan.
|-
|[[File:Romsget.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.romsget.io/ ROMsGet]

[[File:Romsgames.png|120px]]

[https://www.downloadroms.io/ Download ROMs]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii.
|-
|[[File:emuroms.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.emuroms.ch/en EmuRoms.ch]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Torrent site for ROMs and ISOs. Has ROMs up to the 3DS. Also, it has the same layout as the now dead Portal Roms.
|-
|[[File:worldofspectrum.jpeg|120px]]
[http://worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]
| ZX Spectrum
| No
| No
| TBA
| For ZX Spectrum games and applications as well magazines, cover art, booklets, and much more. ROMs and tape images on the site were released with permission from their original authors.
|-

|[[File:Retrostic.png|120px]]
[https://www.retrostic.com/ RetroStic]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus NDS.
|-
|[[File:abandonwarefrance.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.abandonware-france.org/ Abandonware France]
| DOS
| No
| No
| TBA
| Also, a French ROM site.
|-
|[[File:Markdown.jpeg|120px]]
[https://r-roms.github.io/ Rom Center Markdown Edition 2022 (/r/Roms Mega Thread)]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Center made with MkDocs in Github, Edition 2021.Documentation of places to get roms, curated by [https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms /r/Roms on Reddit]
|-
|[[File:mame.jpeg|120px]]
[http://mamedev.org/roms/ MAME]
| MAME
| No
| No
| TBA
| Directly from the MAME site. Games that were released with permission for free and non-commercial use.
|-
|[[File:Eagleforest.jpeg|120px]]
[http://eagleforces.tistory.com/ eagleforces]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Hosted in South Korea, has no-intro sets for various 8 and 16-bit consoles available as individually downloadable ROMs. Links are direct with no redirects, confirmation pages, or captchas.
|-
|[[File:switchrls.jpeg|100px]]
[https://switchrls.co/ Switchrls]
| Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu. Use an adblocker.
|-
|[[File:Xcinsp.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.xcinsp.com/ XCINSP]
| Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
|-
|[[File:8i99.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.8i99.com/forum-2-1.html jiyouWang]
| Nintendo Switch
| Yes
| No
| TBA
| Chinese site, decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
|-
|[[File:Romulation.png|120px]]
[http://www.romulation.net Romulation]
| Various
| Yes
| Yes
| TBA
| Useful for Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 etc, maybe no-intro rips. (account required - use bugmenot or make one with a temp email account) (Many games (including most Nintendo titles) have been DMCA'd as of January 2017).
|-
|[[File:Pleasuredom.gif|120px]]
[https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/ Pleasuredome]
| MAME & Non-MAME
| No
| No
| TBA
| Was once a great private tracker for getting full sets of many systems (MAME, No-Intro, GoodSets, Trurip, Redump, TOSEC) as well as miscellaneous content like video game magazines and [[Daphne]] laserdisc rips that were almost impossible to find elsewhere. Did not allow newer systems, and was a strict ratio site that required you to maintain a positive upload to download ratio. In 2021 the tracker and forum were permanently closed, and only the MAME & Non-MAME ROMs and wiki remain. There are several other gaming-focused private trackers, but none have open registration.
|-
|[[File:Theoldcomputer.png|200px]]
[https://www.theoldcomputer.com/ TheOldComputer]
| DOS
| Yes
| No
| TBA
|
|-
|[[File:Arcadepunks.png|80px]]
[https://www.arcadepunks.com/arcade-punks-arcade-building-modding-and-gaming-forum/your-shares-and-download-shares/ Arcade Punks]
| Various
| Yes (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post))
| No
| TBA
|
|-
|[[File:Emudesc.png|120px]]
[https://www.emudesc.com Emudesc]
| Various
| Yes (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post)) 
| No
| TBA
| Spanish forum site where you can find Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Nintendo DS, 3DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable roms (possibly more stuff too).
|-
|[[File:k73.png|120px]]
[http://www.k73.com/ k73]
| Various
| ?
| Yes
| TBA
| A Chinese site that relies on Baidu as a hosting service. Whenever prompted to install an external application (really persistent malware), most if not all links are not premium. Has lots of Chinese fan-translations as well as Japanese games on newer consoles that are not usually uploaded, and more importantly latest gen dumps.
|-
|[[File:oldmanemu.jpeg|120px]]
[https://www.oldmanemu.net/ oldmanemu]
| Various
| Yes
| No
| TBA
| Chinese site for getting full rom sets of various systems. Files are hosted on Baidu/CTFile/115.
|-
|[[File:Romhustler.jpeg|120px]]
[http://romhustler.net/ ROM Hustler]
| Various
| ?
| Yes
| TBA
| Has Renascene PlayStation Portable dumps. Has a good selection of games from all consoles Gen-6 and earlier. Limited to one download at a time; additional attempts "503" while a download is active. Currently you can't download Nintendo related ROMs from here.
|-
|[[File:Romtohome.png|100px]]
[https://romtohome.com/ RomToHome]
| Various
| No
| Yes
| TBA
| ~50kB/s downloads, but has proper scene releases for a variety of consoles including (but not limited to) Wii U, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo 3DS, DS and PlayStation Portable.
|-
|[[File:ps1gameonline.jpeg|120px]]
[http://www.ps1games.online/ PS1Games]
| PS1/2/PSP
| No
| No
| TBA
| Contains a complete PSP, PS2 and PSX ISOs.
|-
|[[File:Popuo.jpeg|200px]]
[https://popuw.com/ popuw]
| Various Prince of Persia Games
| No
| No
| TBA
| Contains Prince of Persia 1/2/3D games.
|-
|[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7vPmuZfN3snMU0zYlBXSWVhOUE WiiWare and Virtual Console WADs]
| WiiWare
| No
| No
| TBA
| Also hosted on Google Drive, can be used on Dolphin or a modded Wii.
|-
|[https://1fichier.com/dir/uExVcS2h Partial PlayStation 2 Redump (2016/03/19)]
| PlayStation 2
| No
| Yes
| TBA
| PS2 (5046/6863 games).
|-
|[[File:Nxbrew.jpeg|120px]]
[https://nxbrew.com/ NXBrew]
| Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| Downloads to the latest Nintendo Switch Games, NSPs, XCIs, Homebrews, & CFWs etc. Use an adblocker.
|-
|[[File:Hshop.png|120px]]
[https://hshop.erista.me/ hShop]
| Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website has 3DS games (including retail, eShop, and Virtual Console), updates, DLC, Virtual Console (official and injects), Themes, and DsiWare in .cia format. You can download them directly or through FBI Remote Install through a QR Code.
|-
|[[File:64DD_logo.png|120px]]
[https://64dd.org/ 64DD.org]
| Nintendo 64DD
| No
| No
| TBA
| Collection of dumps for 64DD games.
|-
|[[File:RomsDL.png|150px]]
[https://romsdl.com/ RomsDL]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Roms up to 6th generation.
|-
|[[File:nsw2u.png|120px]]
[https://nsw2u.xyz nsw2u]
| Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many games and updates in .nsp, .ncz, and .XCI formats. The website uses dedicated hosts and torrents, though sometimes the torrent files do not work.
|-
|[[File:MyAbandonware.png|180px]]
[https://www.myabandonware.com/ My Abandonware]
| Various
| No
| No
| TBA
| Old abandoned PC and console games.
|-
|[[File:romsever.png|120px]]
[https://romsever.com romsever]
| Playstation, Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many games and updates in .iso, .xci, .nsp, .ncz and many other PKG formats.
|-
|[[File:SwitchXCIROMS.png|180px]]
[https://switchxciroms.com/ SwitchXCIROMS]
| Switch ROMs, Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many games and updates in .xci, .nsp, .ncz and many other PKG formats.
|-
|[[File:Bytebay.png|180px]]
[https://sites.google.com/view/bytebay/home Bytebay]
| Nintendo, SEGA, and PlayStation
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries databases of ROM sets for dedicated systems related to Nintendo, SEGA, or PlayStation.
|-
|[[File:Emuline.png|200px]]
[https://www.emuline.org/ Emuline]
| Various
| Yes (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post))
| No
| TBA
| A forum for arcade PC dumps, Teknoparrot games, and many ROMs & ISOs.
|-
|[https://edgeemu.net/ EdgeEmu]
|Various
|No
|No
|TBA
|Contains roms for all atari consoles,as well as nintendo (up to 6th gen), sega,and some lesser known conles( 3D0, CDI). It also contains some arcade roms
|-
|[https://stratoemulator.com/roms/ StratoEmulator ROMs Page]
| Switch ROMs, Nintendo Switch
| No
| No
| TBA
| This website carries many games and updates in .xci, and .nsp format along with the latest DLCs and updates.
|}

==BitTorrent==
:''Note: [https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist Here's a list of public trackers you can use] to increase the amount of peers you can reach, and [http://magnet2torrent.com a service that attempts to convert magnet links into torrent files] in case your BitTorrent client doesn't support magnets.''

====Trackers====
*[http://rutracker.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=548 RuTracker] Account required for some stuff, site entirely in Russian, use [https://translate.google.com/ translate] if you really need to.
**PlayStation Redump: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6C5088295FAE49B5F2D92EF70B31F0377C05D824 USA (2015-05-24)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DD381766675FBCE1204CFB4A260B2D97D43AD403 Japan (2015-11-03)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3D41D4E6024AA4AB905BF0E6354D57F680C654F3 Europe (2015-11-03)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4F8D3549E1B536D5B2B183592DC574404A9C5135 TOSEC Dreamcast set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e5ef752f78ccd368580467ed26edf2435ca1911 TOSEC Sega CD and 32X set] Format is .cue, .wav and .iso and therefore may not work with some emulators (bin/cue preferred)
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6CCAAF9A361C6D2A0B79A1009322C0F8853BFB1D TOSEC 3DO set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:EE6BB932A4C451FD8DEB1B2C85CCDD3347C7C63A TOSEC Philips CD-i set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0E7DE4C2E472ECB20265C95D4056BF6ACDEED442 TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2014)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:29F45A7759986DB92A64A3330EDF4FF3F92B0652 TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2017)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8681F7465E7372E938BED103D3AE60C46254C706 DS/DSi 2014 Fullset]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:10DC9442DCF9DE5AAEA392B60C4AD22571C4860A Sega Saturn Redump (2018-12-15)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4709A0865B6252583E016699C41666AEEFEDA3C5 SNK Neo Geo CD TruRip (v2017-04-07)]
**eXoDOS v3.11 [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6D2FA6349C36C81911C67071014AC9083258B99D Vol. I: Adventure], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3428222C030A98463B44BBE8E1C401846517C8FF Vol. II: RPG], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:18CC5F44256E20C111990ACB87CE9EE6B6E1CEAB Vol III: Strategy], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:25377847E91B1B9397A6BF0CA384E861FB15A175 Vol IV: Sim/Sports/Racing/Edu], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5AB329B89F73048560882542AEC3B427827E65B4 Vol 5: Action]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6B901594EF61DA8E2D498F88B05D5ACEDD16E881 eXoDOS v4.0]
*[https://nnmclub.to/forum/viewforum.php?f=382 NNM-Club] Another entirely Russian tracker, which requires account for some stuff.
**Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2013/01/25 (NTSC-U): [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0C7FDC9EFAEFEEADB09767D0603769BAAAE04D72 (#-L)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1DDFA4E6D7BFCA0415828AD02C8109D15483BF77 (M-Z)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C67A5ED64ABFB15FFF5963C224A420CD24AD9782 (Additional disk images)]
**Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2017/06/13 (NTSC-U): [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DAC912D9A80825B2B684CC7E3E6B97AE37F4BD67 (#-I)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44D9C1B2D276E73AD3A607DAF623BDC8B44EB54A (J-R)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B015B9A84113A789CC9B80D4D900A56E5D0C2047 (S-Z)]
**ADVANsCEne Playstation Portable: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B69374F9275183F1470B35156C78AFE34BE9893A 0001-2000], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24E6917035F53FC486D4766A81A6D4CA6C56EAA3 2001-3200], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4D8F75E6ECBCF3B569C4EC111BC307A3E4E096F3 3200-3336]
**Nintendo Wii America: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3BF9642C00E8569466B0B7E33FD602AAE7D3423C (#-L)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2D11F2DC7009A2B90C9FDD3D90FE37499AB8D796 (M-S)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:735F2C09160DB98F8A06273AD137DB58A692AC08 (T-Z)]
**Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2015-04-29: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:99beaaaccd5401c6b34ff5d573af57c21cbf64fa (PAL)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CB4F13E0F4640C6679DF9F06EE24F6829034B195 (NTSC-U)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:193528501DFB0495D23ECFED77CB5BC329DF6A38 (NTSC-J)]
**Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2018-08-25: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:84050DEB436A9A6F84CB2C66773CD8EB4462F77F (PAL)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C1A1F862240B916A0D6C31337D97B2C8268E815E (NTSC-U)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:90A8BF78651B1213ADBCDBAB20C06756513EA572 (NTSC-J)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B6AA4211BB8382AD750354E91406817411BED18F Sega Dreamcast TOSEC as of 01.11.2017 + SelfBoot 0.08 as of 17.03.2011]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:E9CB345A0378F3F76344D315C65FA5E423B6190C Nintendo 3DS 2011-2014 dump](In dire need of region sorting)
*[https://1337x.to/user/1G1R/ 1337x] for complete [https://www.romcenter.com/wiki/doku.php?id=1g1r 1G1R] collections. No account required but adblocker is advised
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:A46C4DB9BFD21F9603F292C0BF31DCE96E81CF1F Redump Dreamcast 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C1B091BA342CA25BA69D1BE48298E5F23641698C Redump Neo Geo CD 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0ADA900ABA4C50704F89F397A2D7DD52810D9688 No-Intro N64 (Nintendo 64) 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:400C89637C90B1E740E1942AF0092C1BB4FD31E0 Redump/No-Intro Sega CD/32X 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CD12E577669007597F56B3B45B5F69BA0C63CEC6 Redump PS1 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:98670EB66853F84E1B0C5F3D116232E4C5C4FE84 Redump PS1 1G1R set (Part 2)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:41BF287877E774B717974657F122433DABF9B383 No-Intro TurboGrafx-16 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C5771EBA6479E41781820CF083CD5C1FB7453592 No-Intro Atari Jaguar 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cd240a9644e5808ca04bc3f503071679633b1bb9 Redump GameCube 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:E6079EB70F40E17FBF3AB01E720F71EEFDCC1DDD Redump TurboGrafx CD 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:646048C99CBD033331CD4E44CFC7AE1182E245CB Redump PlayStation Portable PSP + PSN 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9F40CAB1E282BE8485F803DFBD3C6F761CAC04B7 Redump Atari Jaguar CD 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:D6DA390292CEED3EA99B1C930805DF81E04FC3E1 MAMEdevs Neo Geo MVS-AES 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1B6C0392A0415DD18D245E3A287B76248214BE33 Redump Sega Saturn 1G1R set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8AE1B7B14D7EA42CB8AAA89A49875FCAF27FB58B Redump Nintendo Wii 1G1R set (Part 2)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3E413C2209CA437FDCD26945AC0E2EB120FA7C40 Redump Nintendo Wii 1G1R set (Part 3)]
*[https://www.thepiratebay.org/ ThePirateBay] (not recommended)

====Outside the trackers====
*Independent romset releases.
**No-Intro Collection, a set comparable to the Internet Archive ones above but with individual archives per title instead of per system. [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e0945d7c483c5e8e3fa69ffa830c9a1a35d2a778&dn=No-Intro%20Collection%20(2019.09.16)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.open-internet.nl%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftorrent.nwps.ws%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.demonii.si%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrentyorg.pl%3a80%2fannounce 2019-9-16], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86bced531d727cb17acca8bdb7d13ec5c7d024a2&dn=No-Intro%20Roms%201%20(2018-05-13)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce 2018-5-13]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d2c94aaddb5fb1099b3c75077d5212389d26df32&dn=No-Intro%20Nintendo%20DSiWare%20(2019-01-01)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce No-Intro Nintendo DSi (DLC) 2019-1-1], a DSiWare set comparable to the Internet Archive one but with individual files.
*Wii digital software megapack, a reorganized mirror of MarioCube wads: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2f97e146f67dcbbf390191ae38000160a2d5f928&dn=WII%20DIGITAL%202019-7-26&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce as of 2019-07-26], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0486296da4a726d4ff1fb07e6a40c4ae2babcd1e&dn=WII+DIGITAL+2019-2-5 as of 2019-02-05]
*[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3c9aaade428f69f09b722bbe4025063cd0f3cb58&dn=WiiWare+and+Virtual+Console+Complete+Collection+NTSC-U ALL NTSC WiiWare titles]

===Tools & emulator forks for auto-download===
*[https://github.com/TiBeN/ia-rcade ia-rcade] Auto downloads the game you choose for [[MAME]].
*[http://www.daphne-emu.com/download/daphne-1.0v-win32.zip Daphne Loader] Auto downloads [[LaserDisc]] games for [[DAPHNE]] (except Digital Leisure games).

==Official Dumps==
===Nintendo Wii U===
Nintendo used to deliver games the same way Sony does with the PlayStation Network; with a big encrypted disk image where all the data is useless without an authentication key. Unfortunately, they've changed this for 3DS and Switch, but not for Wii U (yet).

You need a titlekey database, covering base games, updates, and DLCs. A notable one is [https://titlekeys.ovh/ titlekeys.ovh]. '''Note''' you're still restricted to games that are on the eShop and that people bothered to upload their tickets to that titlekey site, so rare or retail-only games are excluded. You can likely still find these types of games from ROM sites above.

On real Wii U hardware, you could also download a package of all tickets ever of all regions and trick the official eShop into thinking you own the game and can redownload it, but on real hardware, it has been reported some out-of-region tickets cause problems. freeShop will just install the tickets you need for the game you chose.

If you're using [[Cemu]] with physical dumps, you'll also need [http://pastebin.com/GWApZVLa the Common Wii U Key, and individual game keys] for games you're emulating.

Once you have the titlekey database including your game, you can download the game off the official servers using your tool of choice.

====NUS Downloaders (PC)====
You can get Wii U dumps this way. First of all get the NUS Downloader, for example [https://github.com/FailedShack/USBHelperInstaller/releases/latest Wii U USB Helper] or [https://github.com/Xpl0itU/WiiUDownloader/releases/tag/v2.27]. Make sure to use the appropriate URL for the titlekey database.

Then, it's as simple as selecting the game you want to download, clicking "Get It" and then "Download Games". This will download the files for the game you chose (the same as the .tik's title). Choose your own region where possible, so the servers are closer to you.

Once the download is complete:

* '''Wii U dumps:''' You can either install the game to your Wii U by moving it to an SD Card and using [http://wiiubru.com/appstore/#/app/wup_installer_gx2 WUP Installer GX2], or if you're using the deprecated Loadiine (or [[Cemu]]), you can "Convert" it "to Loadiine/CIA". Simply right-click your newly downloaded game, and then click "Prepare for Emulation". The .rpx file will be available in the game's folder, at /code/[yourgame].rpx.

Updates and DLCs can be downloaded the same way. Right click on a game's name to choose which to download. For Wii U games for emulation on Cemu:

To install updates and DLC on Cemu:
* Run the game at least once.
* Check Cemu's log.txt file and look for a line that says "Mounting local storage (AOC): .\mlc01\usr\title\NUMBERS\NUMBERS\aoc\"
* Add (create) folders with the same name as the above (substituting the "NUMBERS" bit with the actual numbers) in your "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title" folder.
* Add any updates (which must be added first) you want to the "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title/NUMBERS/NUMBERS/" folder.
* Create a folder named "aoc" and put the DLC files into there. The "code", "content", and "meta" folders of the actual game itself also go in the "aoc" folder.

===Sony PSP / Vita / PlayStation 3===
Similar situation as Nintendo. As of now, you need RAP license files and the game dump proper to install your game on your CFW'd console, or on real hardware. Some people offer their own license files on some applications and websites so that everyone can get their dumps. Of course, these are limited to popular games people bothered to upload their license files for and only digital games.

The [http://psndl.net/packages PSNdl] website is a good way to get PlayStation 3 games for example, including PlayStation Classic versions of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 dumps that can be extracted and run on regular emulators. Make sure to get the RAP license as well. The pkg file can be decrypted with tools like [https://sites.google.com/site/theleecherman/psnpkgdecryptor-extractor psnpkgdecryptor-extractor] (useful for ripping PlayStation Classics), though emulators like RPCS3 now offer built-in installers for those, and PlayStation 3 CFW supports those as well.

PSNStuffX is another PC downloader tool that comes with a database and covers some games that PSNdl doesn't.

An even newer project is [https://nopaystation.com/ NoPayStation], offering both a database of pkg links and licenses, as well as a Windows downloader and auto-converter: [https://nopaystation.com/vita/npsReleases/ NPS Browser]

For PlayStation 3 game updates, go to <code>https://a0.ww.np.dl.playstation.net/tpl/np/{game_id}/{game_id}-ver.xml</code> (replacing both <code>{game_id}</code> with the game's ID) to see links to available update .pkgs for that game.

[https://github.com/blastrock/pkgj PKGj] for the PlayStation Vita can be downloaded from within VitaDeploy and comes with a database of PKG files and ISOs for Vita and PSP/PS1 games respectively, all of which can be extracted and played on the usual emulators.

==Nintendo Amiibo==
[[Amiibo]] are special figurines that interact with a number of 3DS, Wii U and Switch games. Depending on how hard they are to find, they can either be bought at a local retailer or on eBay for a fortune. NFC tags are dumped to binary files (.bin). [[Android emulators|Android]] users can use [https://github.com/HiddenRamblings/TagMo/releases TagMo] to read and write these files, provided they have the [https://pastebin.com/aV23ha3X appropriate encryption keys.]

* [https://mega.nz/#F!Ek8BCCqD!ggJQ4SVOtfTR74ohXvn-Ng Here's the most complete Amiibo set]

==Verifying Good Dumps==
{{Main|File_Hashes#Determining_Good_Game_Dumps}}

==Game Recommendations==
Game recommendations are highly subjective, but big lists like these usually cover the worthwhile games for each system.
*[http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki//v/%27s_Recommended_Games_Wiki /v/'s Recommended Games Wiki]
*[http://retro-sanctuary.com/Top%20Games%20Main.html Retro-Sanctuary's Top 100 Lists]
*[http://www.racketboy.com/guide/games-that-defined-retro-gaming-machines Racketboy's Defining Games]
*[http://www.racketboy.com/guide/hidden-gems Racketboy's Hidden Gems]
[[Category:Recommendations]]

==Searching for ISOs==
A lot of the above sites have ISOs for disc-based games, but some of the more obscure titles can be hard to find. If you want to find these games, searching for their ID number is generally more effective than searching for their title. This number is region specific and is very useful if you want to find an ISO from a specific region.

==Download Managers==
Many resources we've listed will link to files called .DLCs that contain a list of urls to download. We've voluntarily listed some programs you can use in the event that you come across one and don't want to deal with the links manually.

*[http://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2 JDownloader 2] (Adware-free installer) - Written in Java, and quite possibly the most recognized tool for the job.
*[https://pyload.net/ pyLoad] - Written in Python under AGPL3, PyLoad is a good alternative.
*[https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive Internet Archive Python Library] - Archive.org specific command-line download tool.
*[https://github.com/silverlays/NoIntro-Roms-Downloader NoIntro Roms Downloader v2] - Download "datted" ROMs from the popular NoIntro libraries on archive.org (listing live updated) with user-friendly interface (only Windows release for now)

==See Also==
*[[Ripping Games]] - If you don't feel comfortable downloading ROMs you can try dumping the game yourself.

Strato

2023-09-28T10:47:15Z

Emulator Geek:

{{Infobox emulator
|title = Strato
|logo = Strato.png
|logowidth = 200
|version = N/A
|active = Yes
|platform = [[Emulators on Android|Android]]
|target = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|developer = [https://github.com/lynxnb Lynx] and [https://github.com/strato-emu/strato/graphs/contributors more].
|architecture = ARM
|prog-lang = C++, Kotlin
|license = MPL v2.0
|source = [https://github.com/strato-emu/strato GitHub]
|website = [https://stratoemulator.com/ Strato Emulator]
|bios
}}

Strato (formerly Orizzonte) is a compatibility layer for the [[Nintendo Switch]] that runs on Android. It is a fork of [[Skyline]] that focuses on the continuation of the original project.

==Releases==
No releases yet.

==External links==
* [https://discord.gg/YhpdhVBmXX Official Discord server]

[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Hybrid console emulators]]
[[Category:Nintendo Switch emulators]]
[[Category:Android emulation software]]
[[Category:Forks]]

Skyline

2023-09-28T10:44:57Z

Emulator Geek:

{{stub}}
{{Infobox emulator
|title = Skyline
|logo = Skyline.png
|logowidth = 200
|version = N/A
|active = No
|platform = [[Emulators on Android|Android]]
|target = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|developer = PixelyIon and [https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/graphs/contributors more].
|architecture = ARM
|prog-lang = C++, Kotlin
|license = MPL v2.0
|source = [https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline GitHub]
|website = [https://skyline-emu.one/ skyline-emu.one]
|support = [https://www.patreon.com/skyline_emu/creators Patreon]
|bios =
}}

'''Skyline''' (formerly MonoNX and Lightswitch) is a free compatibility layer for the [[Nintendo Switch]] that runs on Android and is written in C++ and Kotlin.
==Overview==
Unlike the sketchy [[Egg NS]], Skyline can run on more phones that support Android 10 or newer with a 64-bit processor and is not limited to flagship devices.

Even though the Skyline team has done good work getting a variety of 3D games, including ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Odyssey Super Mario Odyssey]'', to run with graphical output and fixing performance issues and bugs in games, some other titles are still stuck with poor framerates and graphical glitches.

===History===
Skyline reached ingame on two Nintendo Switch games in January 2022 and has been improving massively since then.

Skyline was founded as "Lightswitch" in June 2019 by daCyuubi.<ref>[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/commit/4cd6c574f062e723a47007d5dc97e67bcef080eb] daCyubbi's first commit.</ref> In May 2021, Skyline booted up several homebrew tests with graphical output.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tz8DmYxUvk] Skyline running Space Game NX, a homebrew game.</ref> Later, in January 2022, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania ''Sonic Mania''] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_(video_game) ''Celeste''] started booting, albeit with low FPS and graphical glitches. March 2022 saw the improvement of ''Celeste'' in terms of graphics, along with the emulator rendering the openings of ''Super Mario Odyssey'', the menu of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild ''The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]'', and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_(video_game) ''Bastion''] booting ingame. In April 2022, more improvements to performance were made, making ''Super Mario Odyssey'' run roughly 10x faster in its openings <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSU7Itpm7Bs] Super Mario Odyssey running on a Snapdragon 710 from April 2022.</ref> and getting Unity games running. In May 2022, Super Mario Odyssey was able to show 3D rendering, however really slow and with many graphical bugs, (TBA) In October 2022, the developers released Skyline Edge, a paid testing version that you could get by joining the "Edge" membership on their Patreon page. They also released other memberships including Edge+, which gives you development polls, and Pro XDR, where your Patreon name could be in the credits of the app.

On May 6, 2023, a Skyline developer posted this via the Skyline Discord server:

"It is with great sadness that we bring you this news. Recently, Nintendo has issued a DMCA takedown notice against Lockpick RCM which will likely come into effect on Monday, Lockpick is a core part of legally dumping keys from the Switch. They claim that it circumvents their copy protection (TPMs) and therefore violates their copyright. We find ourselves in a position where we are potentially violating their copyright by continuing to develop our project, Skyline, by dumping keys from our own Switches."

After the halt on the Skyline Emulator's development, a new set of developers have decided to carry forward its development <ref>[https://www.androidauthority.com/nintendo-switch-skyline-emulator-android-dead-3321391/]The best Nintendo Switch emulator for Android might live on as Strato (Updated) - Android Authority
</ref> under a new name. It's now called the Strato Emulator <ref>[https://stratoemulator.com/ Strato Emulator - Continuing Strato Emulator Legacy]</ref>.

==Download==
{| cellpadding="2"
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|APK}}
|'''[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/releases Skyline Builds]'''
|}

==External links==
* [https://discord.gg/XnbXNQM Official Discord server]
* [https://skyline-emu.one/ Official website]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:Hybrid console emulators]]
[[Category:Handheld console emulators]]
[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:Nintendo Switch emulators]]
[[Category:Android emulation software]]

Skyline

2023-09-28T10:34:48Z

Emulator Geek: /* Overview */

{{stub}}
{{Infobox emulator
|title = Skyline
|logo = Skyline.png
|logowidth = 200
|version = N/A
|active = No
|platform = [[Emulators on Android|Android]]
|target = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|developer = PixelyIon and [https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/graphs/contributors more].
|architecture = ARM
|prog-lang = C++, Kotlin
|license = MPL v2.0
|source = [https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline GitHub]
|website = [https://skyline-emu.one/ skyline-emu.one]
|support = [https://www.patreon.com/skyline_emu/creators Patreon]
|bios =
}}

'''Skyline''' (formerly MonoNX and Lightswitch) is a free compatibility layer for the [[Nintendo Switch]] that runs on Android and is written in C++ and Kotlin.
==Overview==
Unlike the sketchy [[Egg NS]], Skyline can run on more phones that support Android 10 or newer with a 64-bit processor and is not limited to flagship devices.

Even though the Skyline team has done good work getting a variety of 3D games, including ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Odyssey Super Mario Odyssey]'', to run with graphical output and fixing performance issues and bugs in games, some other titles are still stuck with poor framerates and graphical glitches.

===History===
Skyline reached ingame on two Nintendo Switch games in January 2022 and has been improving massively since then.

Skyline was founded as "Lightswitch" in June 2019 by daCyuubi.<ref>[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/commit/4cd6c574f062e723a47007d5dc97e67bcef080eb] daCyubbi's first commit.</ref> In May 2021, Skyline booted up several homebrew tests with graphical output.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tz8DmYxUvk] Skyline running Space Game NX, a homebrew game.</ref> Later, in January 2022, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania ''Sonic Mania''] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_(video_game) ''Celeste''] started booting, albeit with low FPS and graphical glitches. March 2022 saw the improvement of ''Celeste'' in terms of graphics, along with the emulator rendering the openings of ''Super Mario Odyssey'', the menu of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild ''The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]'', and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_(video_game) ''Bastion''] booting ingame. In April 2022, more improvements to performance were made, making ''Super Mario Odyssey'' run roughly 10x faster in its openings <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSU7Itpm7Bs] Super Mario Odyssey running on a Snapdragon 710 from April 2022.</ref> and getting Unity games running. In May 2022, Super Mario Odyssey was able to show 3D rendering, however really slow and with many graphical bugs, (TBA) In October 2022, the developers released Skyline Edge, a paid testing version that you could get by joining the "Edge" membership on their Patreon page. They also released other memberships including Edge+, which gives you development polls, and Pro XDR, where your Patreon name could be in the credits of the app.

On May 6, 2023, a Skyline developer posted this via the Skyline Discord server:

"It is with great sadness that we bring you this news. Recently, Nintendo has issued a DMCA takedown notice against Lockpick RCM which will likely come into effect on Monday, Lockpick is a core part of legally dumping keys from the Switch. They claim that it circumvents their copy protection (TPMs) and therefore violates their copyright. We find ourselves in a position where we are potentially violating their copyright by continuing to develop our project, Skyline, by dumping keys from our own Switches."

After the halt on the Skyline Emulator's development, a new set of developers have decided to <ref>[https://www.androidauthority.com/nintendo-switch-skyline-emulator-android-dead-3321391/]carry forward its development</ref> under a new name. It's now called the <ref>[https://stratoemulator.com]Strato Emulator</ref>.

==Download==
{| cellpadding="2"
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|APK}}
|'''[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/releases Skyline Builds]'''
|}

==External links==
* [https://discord.gg/XnbXNQM Official Discord server]
* [https://skyline-emu.one/ Official website]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:Hybrid console emulators]]
[[Category:Handheld console emulators]]
[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:Nintendo Switch emulators]]
[[Category:Android emulation software]]

RPCSX

2023-08-25T07:10:34Z

Emulator Geek: /* Overview */

{{Infobox emulator
|logo = Logo-dark.png
|logowidth = 130
|active = Yes
|developer = DH
|platform = [[Emulators on Linux|Linux]]
|target = [[PlayStation 4 emulators|PlayStation 4]]
|website = [https://rpcsx.com RPCSX - PS4 Emulator]
|source = [https://github.com/RPCSX/rpcsx GitHub]
}}
RPCSX (formerly RPCS4) is an early, free PS4 emulator for Linux written in C++.
= Downloads =
TBA
= Overview =
It booted its first game, We Are Doomed, on July 17, 2023.<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/252023769500090368/1124815779230122096/1130613406974623917 RPCSX Discord - First game boot]</ref>
A new update video from the RPCSX developer<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vRx-swDv0 RPCSX Implements Audio & Gamepad, GUI in Development | (Tutorial + Testing)</ref> and the latest RPCSX Blog update <ref>https://rpcsx.com/rpcsx-audio-gamepad-support/ Improved RPCSX PlayStation 4 Emulator: Now Supports Audio & Gamepad</ref>, the emulator now officially supports audio output and controller input. This means that you can emulate RPCSX-supported PlayStation 4 games with audio and use an external controller for the gameplay.
[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:PlayStation 4 emulators]]
[[Category:Linux emulation software]]

File:Logo-dark.png

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== Summary ==
RPCSX Logo
[[Category:Emulator logos]]

Strato

2023-08-24T15:45:11Z

Emulator Geek:

{{Infobox emulator
|title = Strato
|logo = Strato.png
|logowidth = 200
|version = N/A
|active = Yes
|platform = [[Emulators on Android|Android]]
|target = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|developer = [https://github.com/lynxnb Lynx] and [https://github.com/strato-emu/strato/graphs/contributors more].
|architecture = ARM
|prog-lang = C++, Kotlin
|license = MPL v2.0
|source = [https://github.com/strato-emu/strato GitHub]
|website = [https://stratoemulator.com Strato Emulator]
}}

Strato (formerly Orizzonte) is a compatibility layer for the [[Nintendo Switch]] that runs on Android. It is a fork of [[Skyline]] that focuses on the continuation of the original project.

==Releases==
No releases yet.
==External links==
* [https://discord.gg/YhpdhVBmXX Official Discord server]
* [https://stratoemulator.com Strato Emulator]

[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Hybrid console emulators]]
[[Category:Nintendo Switch emulators]]
[[Category:Android emulation software]]
[[Category:Forks]]

Compatibility layers

2023-08-21T17:33:34Z

Emulator Geek: /* Compatibility layers */

While not strictly emulation ''per se'' (hence why [[Wine]] stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator"), '''compatibility layers''' allow software written for one operating system to run on a different OS, often by translating API and system calls made by an application to their equivalent calls in the host operating system. In theory, this should allow for near-native performance since no processor emulation takes place, but in practice some software such as games will tend to run a bit slower due to other bottlenecks that occur as a result of [[Emulation accuracy|replicating the correct behavior]], such as accounting for graphics APIs like Direct3D that aren't supported on non-Microsoft platforms. Additionally, compatibility layers may also use emulation in order to run software built for a different architecture.

==Compatibility layers==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Operating System(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]
! scope="col"|Runs the following software
|-
!colspan="7"|PC / x86
|-
|[[Wine]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Haiku}}
|[https://wiki.winehq.org/Download {{WineVer}} (Dev: {{WineDevVer}})] [https://wiki.winehq.org/Haiku Haiku]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|Windows applications and games
|-
|[[Proton]] (included with Steam)
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://store.steampowered.com/about/ {{ProtonVer}}] [https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/tags git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|Windows games
|-
|[[TeknoParrot]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|<abbr title="TPBootstrapper/Web Installer which downloads the latest versions of all components with TeknoParrot automatically for you.">[https://github.com/nzgamer41/TPBootstrapper/tags TPBootstrapper]</abbr> [https://teknoparrot.com/download {{TeknoVer}}]
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|PC-based arcade games
|-
|Rosetta
|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
|N/A
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|x86 macOS applications (PowerPC macOS apps on earlier versions)
|-
|CrossOver
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|ChromeOS}}
|[https://www.codeweavers.com/products 22.1]
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|Windows applications and games
|-
|Game Porting Toolkit
|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
|[https://gist.github.com/Frityet/448a945690bd7c8cff5fef49daae858e Installation guide]
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|Windows games
|-
|[https://www.hikunpeng.com/document/detail/en/kunpengdevps/ug-exagear/usermanual/kunpengexagear_06_0002.html ExaGear-KunPeng]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://www.hikunpeng.com/developer/devkit/exagear 3.0.0.1]
|{{?}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|x86 Linux programs<abbr title="into Kunpeng platform instructions in real time">*</abbr>
|-
|[https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io Minecraft Bedrock Launcher]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest v0.10.0]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (Android version)
|-
|[https://waydro.id/index.html WayDroid]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://waydro.id/#install git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|Android software
|-
|[https://www.linzhuotech.com/index.php/home/index/xdroid.html xDroid]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://www.linzhuotech.com/Product/download 11.1.51]
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|Android software
|-
|[[Anbox]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://docs.anbox.io/userguide/install.html git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|Android software
|-
|[https://www.gfdgdxi.top/uengine-runner/Help/ UEngine]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/gfdgd-xi/uengine-runner git]
|{{~}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|Android software
|-
|[[Darling]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/darlinghq/darling git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} (WIP)
|macOS software
|-
|Linuxulator
|align=left|{{Icon|FreeBSD}}
|[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linuxulator Wiki] [https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/ Docs]
|{{?}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|Linux software
|-
|[[WineVDM]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases git] [https://ci.appveyor.com/project/otya128/winevdm/ Dev]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|16-bit Windows apps and games
|-
|[[Wineskin]]
|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
|[http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php?page=Downloads 1.7]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|Windows applications and games
|-
|WineBottler
|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
|[https://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ 4.0.1.1 Dev]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|Windows applications and games
|-
|[[WoW]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|N/A
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|Windows 9x apps and games
|-
|[[Win3mu]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[http://bitbucket.org/toptensoftware/win3mu Source]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|Windows 3.x apps and games
|-
|[[NTVDMx64]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64 git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|DOS applications and games
|-
|[[Ardi Executor]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|DOS}}
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20080404193445/http://www.ardi.com/ardi.php 2.1.17]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|Classic Mac OS software up to System 6
|-
|[http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/ DOSEmu]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosemu/files/ 1.4.0]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|DOS software
|-
|[http://dosemu2.github.io/dosemu2/ DOSEmu2]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2 git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|DOS software
|-
!colspan="7"|Mobile / ARM
|-
|[https://box86.org/ Box86/Box64]
|align=left|{{Icon|LiA|Android|Pandora|Pyra}}
|[https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 git-86]/[https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/ git-64]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|x86-64 Linux programs
|-
|[[FEX-Emu]]
|align=left|{{Icon|LinuxARM|Android|Pandora|Pyra}}
|[https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|x86-64 Linux programs
|-
|[[Wine]]
|align=left|{{Icon|LinuxARM|Android}}
|[https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/android/ Android builds] [https://wiki.winehq.org/ARM ARM support]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|Windows applications and games
|-
|[https://winlator.com/ Winlator]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://winlator.com/download/ 1.1] [https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|Windows applications and games
|-
|[https://waydro.id/index.html WayDroid]
|align=left|{{Icon|LinuxARM}}
|[https://waydro.id/#install git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|Android software
|-
|[https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover Hangover]
|align=left|{{Icon||LinuxARM|Android}}
|[https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/releases git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|Windows applications and games
|-
|[[Skyline]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/releases git]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|Nintendo Switch games and homebrew
|-
|[[Anbox]]
|align=left|{{Icon|LinuxARM}}
|[https://docs.anbox.io/userguide/install.html git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|Android software
|-
!colspan="9"|Console
|-
|[[Nintendont]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Wii|WiiU}}
|[https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|GameCube games
|}

===Comparisons===
*[[Wine]] is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs (application software and computer games) developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems, primarily Linux and macOS. Since late 2017 there is also an experimental build for Android. Wine is almost as old as the Linux project, starting in the summer of 1993. Today it's widely used, very popular and sponsored by companies such as CodeWeavers and Valve. The core Wine development aims at a correct implementation of the Windows API as a whole. In this regard it's similar to the [[MAME]] project in its focus on correctness over usability. There are a lot of versions/forks of Wine which focus of different goals, such as usability, compatibility, gaming, office applications, etc. A few are listed below, Wikipedia has [[wikipedia:Wine_(software)#Other_versions_of_Wine|a more complete list]].
**[[Proton]] [https://www.protondb.com/ (compatibility)]: is Valve's one-click solution to play Windows games on Linux. It's included in the Steam Linux client by default. Simply click on a whitelisted game and it will launch without any configuration, or enable it for all games in the settings. Proton is based on a fork of Wine in combination with other components such as [[Wrappers|DXVK]] (which is a wrapper explained below) and FAudio.
**[https://winlator.com/ Winlator]: Winlator is based on Wine and Box86/Box64 in combination with other components such as [[Wrappers|DXVK]], [[Wrappers|D8VK]] and [[Wrappers|WineD3D]].
**[https://www.codeweavers.com/products/ CrossOver] is a commercialized, supported version of Wine from CodeWeavers. It uses additional patches on top of Wine to make it easy to use. They contribute all of their work on CrossOvers back to Wine and make up about two thirds of the commits made to Wine. CrossOver is available on macOS, Linux and Chrome OS.
**[[Wineskin]] is an open-source compatibility layer which allows users to easily convert Windows software to macOS. The ports are in the form of Mac .app bundles with a self-contained Wine instance which are wrapped around the application to be converted.
* [[TeknoParrot]] is a compatibility layer for Windows PCs to run games originally made for Windows-based arcade systems. Has since version 1.51 also support for some games from the Linux-based Sega Lindbergh arcade board.
* [[Darling]] is a translation layer that allows you to run unmodified macOS binaries on Linux. In its nature, it is similar to the well-known [[Wine]] project. At this point, does not yet run macOS application with a GUI.
* [https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io/ Minecraft Bedrock Launcher] is a compatibility layer made specifically to run the Android version of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on Linux and macOS. It is not compatible with any other Android apps.

==Wrappers==
Compatibility layers may also make use of '''wrappers''', which translate a specific graphics API to another. How the user sets up the wrapper varies between each project but most involve a drop-in replacement of the original libraries.

{{Main|Wrappers}}

==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd30iUUkJ1A ETA Prime: Run PC Games On Android Easily With Winlator]

[[Category:Compatibility layers]]
[[Category:Not really emulators]]

RPCSX

2023-08-21T06:09:59Z

Emulator Geek:

{{Infobox emulator
|logo = Logo-dark.png
|logowidth = 130
|active = Yes
|developer = DH
|platform = [[Emulators on Linux|Linux]]
|target = [[PlayStation 4 emulators|PlayStation 4]]
|website = [https://rpcsx.com RPCSX - PS4 Emulator]
|source = [https://github.com/RPCSX/rpcsx GitHub]
}}
RPCSX (formerly RPCS4) is an early, free PS4 emulator for Linux written in C++.
= Downloads =
TBA
= Overview =
TBA
It booted its first game, We Are Doomed, on July 17, 2023.<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/252023769500090368/1124815779230122096/1130613406974623917 RPCSX Discord - First game boot]</ref>
A new update video from the RPCSX developer<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vRx-swDv0 RPCSX Implements Audio & Gamepad, GUI in Development | (Tutorial + Testing)</ref> and the latest RPCSX Blog update <ref>https://rpcsx.com/rpcsx-audio-gamepad-support/ Improved RPCSX PlayStation 4 Emulator: Now Supports Audio & Gamepad</ref>, the emulator now officially supports audio output and controller input. This means that you can emulate RPCSX-supported PlayStation 4 games with audio and use an external controller for the gameplay.
[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:PlayStation 4 emulators]]
[[Category:Linux emulation software]]

File:Logo-dark.png

2023-08-18T17:47:50Z

Emulator Geek: Emulator Geek uploaded a new version of File:Logo-dark.png

== Summary ==
RPCSX Logo
[[Category:Emulator logos]]

File:Logo-dark.png

2023-08-18T17:47:26Z

Emulator Geek: Emulator Geek uploaded a new version of File:Logo-dark.png

== Summary ==
RPCSX Logo
[[Category:Emulator logos]]

RPCSX

2023-08-18T17:44:59Z

Emulator Geek: /* Overview */

{{Infobox emulator
|logo = Logo-dark.png
|logowidth = 130
|active = Yes
|developer = DH
|platform = [[Emulators on Linux|Linux]]
|target = [[PlayStation 4 emulators|PlayStation 4]]
|website = [https://rpcsx.github.io/rpcsx-site/ RPCSX - PS4 Emulator]
|source = [https://github.com/RPCSX/rpcsx GitHub]
}}
RPCSX (formerly RPCS4) is an early, free PS4 emulator for Linux written in C++.
= Downloads =
TBA
= Overview =
TBA
It booted its first game, We Are Doomed, on July 17, 2023.<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/252023769500090368/1124815779230122096/1130613406974623917 RPCSX Discord - First game boot]</ref>
A new update video from the RPCSX developer<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vRx-swDv0 RPCSX Implements Audio & Gamepad, GUI in Development | (Tutorial + Testing)</ref> and the latest RPCSX Blog update <ref>https://rpcsx.com/rpcsx-audio-gamepad-support/ Improved RPCSX PlayStation 4 Emulator: Now Supports Audio & Gamepad</ref>, the emulator now officially supports audio output and controller input. This means that you can emulate RPCSX-supported PlayStation 4 games with audio and use an external controller for the gameplay.
[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:PlayStation 4 emulators]]
[[Category:Linux emulation software]]

File:Logo-dark.png

2023-08-18T17:38:25Z

Emulator Geek: Emulator Geek uploaded a new version of File:Logo-dark.png

== Summary ==
RPCSX Logo
[[Category:Emulator logos]]

File:Logo-dark.png

2023-08-18T17:37:02Z

Emulator Geek: Emulator Geek uploaded a new version of File:Logo-dark.png

== Summary ==
RPCSX Logo
[[Category:Emulator logos]]

RPCSX

2023-08-18T17:34:28Z

Emulator Geek: /* Overview */

{{Infobox emulator
|logo = Logo-dark.png
|logowidth = 130
|active = Yes
|developer = DH
|platform = [[Emulators on Linux|Linux]]
|target = [[PlayStation 4 emulators|PlayStation 4]]
|website = [https://rpcsx.github.io/rpcsx-site/ RPCSX - PS4 Emulator]
|source = [https://github.com/RPCSX/rpcsx GitHub]
}}
RPCSX (formerly RPCS4) is an early, free PS4 emulator for Linux written in C++.
= Downloads =
TBA
= Overview =
TBA
It booted its first game, We Are Doomed, on July 17, 2023.<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/252023769500090368/1124815779230122096/1130613406974623917 RPCSX Discord - First game boot]</ref>
A new update video from the RPCSX developer<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vRx-swDv0 RPCSX Implements Audio & Gamepad, GUI in Development | (Tutorial + Testing)</ref> and the latest RPCSX Blog update <ref>https://rpcsx.com/rpcsx-audio-gamepad-support/ Improved RPCSX PlayStation 4 Emulator: Now Supports Audio & Gamepad</ref>, the emulator now officially supports audio output and controller input. This means that you can emulate supported RPCSX-supported PlayStation 4 games with audio and use an external controller for the gameplay.
[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:PlayStation 4 emulators]]
[[Category:Linux emulation software]]

Skyline

2023-07-28T06:15:11Z

Emulator Geek: /* Download */

{{stub}}
{{Infobox emulator
|title = Skyline
|logo = Skyline.png
|logowidth = 200
|version = N/A
|active = No
|platform = [[Emulators on Android|Android]]
|target = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|developer = PixelyIon and [https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/graphs/contributors more].
|architecture = ARM
|prog-lang = C++, Kotlin
|license = MPL v2.0
|source = [https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline GitHub]
|bios =
}}

'''Skyline''' (formerly MonoNX and Lightswitch) is a compatibility layer for the [[Nintendo Switch]] that runs on Android and is written in C++ and Kotlin.
==Overview==
Unlike the sketchy [[Egg NS]], Skyline can run on more phones that support Android 10 or newer with a 64-bit processor and is not limited to flagship devices.

Even though the Skyline team has done good work getting a variety of 3D games, including ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Odyssey Super Mario Odyssey]'', to run with graphical output and fixing performance issues and bugs in games, some other titles are still stuck with poor framerates and graphical glitches.

===History===
Skyline reached ingame on two Nintendo Switch games in January 2022 and has been improving massively since then.

Skyline was founded as "Lightswitch" in June 2019 by daCyuubi.<ref>[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/commit/4cd6c574f062e723a47007d5dc97e67bcef080eb] daCyubbi's first commit.</ref> In May 2021, Skyline booted up several homebrew tests with graphical output.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tz8DmYxUvk] Skyline running Space Game NX, a homebrew game.</ref> Later, in January 2022, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania ''Sonic Mania''] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_(video_game) ''Celeste''] started booting, albeit with low FPS and graphical glitches. March 2022 saw the improvement of ''Celeste'' in terms of graphics, along with the emulator rendering the openings of ''Super Mario Odyssey'', the menu of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild ''The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]'', and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_(video_game) ''Bastion''] booting ingame. In April 2022, more improvements to performance were made, making ''Super Mario Odyssey'' run roughly 10x faster in its openings <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSU7Itpm7Bs] Super Mario Odyssey running on a Snapdragon 710 from April 2022.</ref> and getting Unity games running. In May 2022, Super Mario Odyssey was able to show 3D rendering, however really slow and with many graphical bugs, (TBA) In October 2022, the developers released Skyline Edge, a paid testing version that you could get by joining the "Edge" membership on their Patreon page. They also released other memberships including Edge+, which gives you development polls, and Pro XDR, where your Patreon name could be in the credits of the app.

On May 6, 2023, a Skyline developer posted this via the Skyline Discord server:

"It is with great sadness that we bring you this news. Recently, Nintendo has issued a DMCA takedown notice against Lockpick RCM which will likely come into effect on Monday, Lockpick is a core part of legally dumping keys from the Switch. They claim that it circumvents their copy protection (TPMs) and therefore violates their copyright. We find ourselves in a position where we are potentially violating their copyright by continuing to develop our project, Skyline, by dumping keys from our own Switches."

==Download==
{| cellpadding="2"
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|APK}}
|'''[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/releases Skyline Builds]'''
|}

==External links==
* [https://discord.gg/XnbXNQM Official Discord server]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:Hybrid console emulators]]
[[Category:Handheld console emulators]]
[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:Nintendo Switch emulators]]
[[Category:Android emulation software]]

Skyline

2023-07-28T06:09:31Z

Emulator Geek:

{{stub}}
{{Infobox emulator
|title = Skyline
|logo = Skyline.png
|logowidth = 200
|version = N/A
|active = No
|platform = [[Emulators on Android|Android]]
|target = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|developer = PixelyIon and [https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/graphs/contributors more].
|architecture = ARM
|prog-lang = C++, Kotlin
|license = MPL v2.0
|source = [https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline GitHub]
|bios =
|website. = [https://skyline-emu.one/ skyline-emu.one]
}}

'''Skyline''' (formerly MonoNX and Lightswitch) is a compatibility layer for the [[Nintendo Switch]] that runs on Android and is written in C++ and Kotlin.
==Overview==
Unlike the sketchy [[Egg NS]], Skyline can run on more phones that support Android 10 or newer with a 64-bit processor and is not limited to flagship devices.

Even though the Skyline team has done good work getting a variety of 3D games, including ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Odyssey Super Mario Odyssey]'', to run with graphical output and fixing performance issues and bugs in games, some other titles are still stuck with poor framerates and graphical glitches.

===History===
Skyline reached ingame on two Nintendo Switch games in January 2022 and has been improving massively since then.

Skyline was founded as "Lightswitch" in June 2019 by daCyuubi.<ref>[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/commit/4cd6c574f062e723a47007d5dc97e67bcef080eb] daCyubbi's first commit.</ref> In May 2021, Skyline booted up several homebrew tests with graphical output.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tz8DmYxUvk] Skyline running Space Game NX, a homebrew game.</ref> Later, in January 2022, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania ''Sonic Mania''] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_(video_game) ''Celeste''] started booting, albeit with low FPS and graphical glitches. March 2022 saw the improvement of ''Celeste'' in terms of graphics, along with the emulator rendering the openings of ''Super Mario Odyssey'', the menu of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild ''The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]'', and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_(video_game) ''Bastion''] booting ingame. In April 2022, more improvements to performance were made, making ''Super Mario Odyssey'' run roughly 10x faster in its openings <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSU7Itpm7Bs] Super Mario Odyssey running on a Snapdragon 710 from April 2022.</ref> and getting Unity games running. In May 2022, Super Mario Odyssey was able to show 3D rendering, however really slow and with many graphical bugs, (TBA) In October 2022, the developers released Skyline Edge, a paid testing version that you could get by joining the "Edge" membership on their Patreon page. They also released other memberships including Edge+, which gives you development polls, and Pro XDR, where your Patreon name could be in the credits of the app.

On May 6, 2023, a Skyline developer posted this via the Skyline Discord server:

"It is with great sadness that we bring you this news. Recently, Nintendo has issued a DMCA takedown notice against Lockpick RCM which will likely come into effect on Monday, Lockpick is a core part of legally dumping keys from the Switch. They claim that it circumvents their copy protection (TPMs) and therefore violates their copyright. We find ourselves in a position where we are potentially violating their copyright by continuing to develop our project, Skyline, by dumping keys from our own Switches."

==Download==
{| cellpadding="2"
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|APK}}
|'''[https://skyline-emu.one/download/ Skyline builds]'''
|}

==External links==
* [https://discord.gg/XnbXNQM Official Discord server]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:Hybrid console emulators]]
[[Category:Handheld console emulators]]
[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:Nintendo Switch emulators]]
[[Category:Android emulation software]]

Strato

2023-07-28T06:05:41Z

Emulator Geek:

{{Infobox emulator
|title = Strato
|logo = Strato.png
|logowidth = 200
|version = N/A
|active = Yes
|platform = [[Emulators on Android|Android]]
|target = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
|developer = Lynx and [https://github.com/strato-emu/strato/graphs/contributors more].
|architecture = ARM
|prog-lang = C++, Kotlin
|license = MPL v2.0
|source = [https://github.com/strato-emu/strato GitHub]
|bios =
|website = [https://stratoemulator.com/ StratoEmulator.com]

}}

Strato (formerly Orizzonte) is a compatibility layer for the [[Nintendo Switch]] that runs on Android. It is a fork of [[Skyline]] that focuses on the continuation of the original project.

==Releases==
No Releases yet
==External links==
* [https://discord.gg/YhpdhVBmXX Official Discord server]

[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Hybrid console emulators]]
[[Category:Nintendo Switch emulators]]
[[Category:Android emulation software]]
[[Category:Forks]]