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Any site There are a lot of sites claiming to have a working 3DS emulator is a scam. Anything on that site Most of them are scams. Use common sense to distinguish the real ones from fakes. In particular, anything claiming to run commercial games should be considered malware until proven otherwise. A YouTube video is not a proof. Public source code and news sites reporting legitimacy are.
Gosh, this page was out of date. I'm biased for Citra, but I think I've got it updated for an up-to-date *and* neutral representation~ neobrain
[[File:Article_img.jpg|thumb|The Nintendo 3DS handheld console]]The Nintendo 3DS is the latest handheld console by Nintendo, released in 2011. The most notable feature of this console is the use of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy autostereoscopic] (i.e. without glasses) 3D, which can be configured using a slider.
Do not expect the 3DS to be anywhere near fully emulated for a very long time. The system had only started getting hacked for homebrew quite recently, so a full reverse-engineering effort is not going to happen any time soonare still work in progress.
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|style="text-align: center;"|✓
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|style="text-align: center;"|[[Citra]]
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|style="text-align: center;"|(nightly builds)
|style="text-align: center;"|✓
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|style="text-align: center;"|[[TronDS]]
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|style="text-align: center;"|1.0.4
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===Comparisons===
* [[Citra]] is an early in development open-source 3DS emulator, made by experienced emulator developers. It is considered experimental, and runs simple homebrew applications and is even able to render title screens of some retail games. It's not useful for actually playing games yet, however.* [[3dmoo]] is another open-source 3DS emulator, made by experienced developers in the DS hacking scene. It is newer than was released shortly after Citra, but and has received similar progress is quicker. It now has homebrew compatibility on par with Citra, even being slightly better in some aspectssince then.* [[CitraTronDS]] is an extremely early in development a closed-source 3DS emulator, presumably made by the iDeaS author. It Little is considered experimental, and cannot play any games besides known about it other than that it can run simple homebrew. On 1/3/2015, Citra booted The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DIt cannot be used for playing games.
===Emulation issues===
The Nintendo 3DS '''currently has no functional emulators'''if you're looking for playing games; this is mainly due to the fact that because for a long time the hardware has yet was documented only sparely, and homebrew code execution was hard to be documentedachieve. Once Nowadays, the hardware is well better known and its functions homebrew exploits are well-documented, emulation can beginpublished. When you It will still take into account the fact that the 3DS supposedly has a high amount of security built-inwhile until emulators can be used to play games, this may take a whilehowever. Be prepared to wait.
Using other emulation scenes as a reference expect to wait 4-6 years for an emulator to play the majority of games, but it could take as long as 8-10. Buy a 3DS if you can't wait.
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