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Do not expect the 3DS to be anywhere near fully emulated for a long time. The system had only started getting hacked for homebrew quite recently, so reverse-engineering effort are still work in progress.
There are a lot of sites claiming to have a working 3DS emulator. 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.
Using other emulation scenes as If you see a reference expect to wait 4-6 years for an emulator site claim to play the majority of 3DS gameseven remotely well, but it could take as long as 8-10is most likely a scam. Buy Do not download or install a program that claims to play 3DS if you can't waitgames without proof that it works. A YouTube video is not proof. Public source code and news sites reporting legitimacy are.
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[[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.
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|style="text-align: center;"|[[3dmooCitra]]
|style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux
|style="text-align: center;"|(nightly builds)
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|style="text-align: center;"|[[Citra3dmoo]]
|style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux
|style="text-align: center;"|(nightly builds)
===Comparisons===
* [[Citra]] is an early in development open-source 3DS emulator, made by experienced emulator developers. It is considered experimental, and it only runs simple homebrew applications and is even able to render title screens with a decent degree of some retail gamescompatibility. It's not useful for actually playing games yet, however, though it can play Ocarina of Time 3D several games to some extent, albeit with various graphical issues, no sound, and very slow speeds. ItCitra is being regularly worked on, and progress in it is faster than expected for most emulators. However, there's very very slow thoughstill no telling how long it will be before it is suitable for playing games to completion.
* [[3dmoo]] is another open-source 3DS emulator, made by experienced developers in the DS hacking scene. It was released shortly after Citra and has received similar progress since then.
* [[TronDS]] is a closed-source 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.
===Emulation issues===
'''The Nintendo 3DS '''currently has no functional emulatorsthat play games at acceptable levels of accuracy.''' if you're looking for playing games; this This is mainly because for a long time the hardware was documented only sparelysparingly, and homebrew code execution was hard to achieve. Nowadays, the hardware is better known and homebrew exploits are publishedis being developed. It will still take a while until emulators can be used to reliably play games, however. Be prepared to wait.
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[[Category:Very Early Emulation]]
