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'''[[wikipedia:Citra (emulator)|Citra]]''' (formerly Akiru) is an a discontinued free and open-source [[Nintendo 3DS emulators|Nintendo 3DS]] emulator/debugger written in C++. It is also available as a [[libretro]] core. While the emulator is no longer active, a fork maintained by PabloMK7 is still active.

Citra emulates a subset of 3DS hardware and therefore is useful for running/debugging homebrew applications, and it is also able to run many commercial games. Some of these do not run at a playable state. On May 23, 2020, an a [https://citra-emu.org/entry/announcing-citra-android/ official Android release] for Citra came out. The minimum requirements are Android 8 (64-bit) and OpenGL ES 3.2 support. Since 15th September 2023, Citra has also added support for Vulkan, resulting in improved performance in a number of scenarios. Many games achieve playable framerates on a variety of hardware, though the developers recommend an Android device with a Snapdragon 835 chip or better. ===Discontinuation===See [[Yuzu#Lawsuit]].

|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac|Android}}|'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20240229205025/https://citra-emu.org/download/ Latest Nightly and Canary buildsArchived Builds]'''|-|align=center|{{Icon|Android-big}}|'''<br>[https://playweb.googlearchive.comorg/storeweb/apps20240304191743/details?id=org.citra.citra_emu Beta 15]<br>[https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-androidnightly/releases OfficialLatest Archived Nightly (2104)]'''|-|align=center|{{Icon|Android-big}}|'''<br>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240304191843/https://github.com/weihuoyacitra-emu/citra-canary/releases UnofficialLatest Archived Canary (2798)]'''

Citra developers decided to implement a telemetry feature , uploading to them through Internet connection detailed logs and data about your computer specs and the games you're playing. When booting Citra for the first time, you get asked if you want to enable it.

Support for Although macOS support in Citra is still poor, macOS builds have returned to Citra Canary 2485 and newer thanks to the addition of the new Vulkan renderer. Previously, macOS has been temporarily dropped builds were discontinued after build 1782 due to the developers bumping raising the OpenGL requirements up to version 4.3. Apple has depreciated OpenGL in , while macOS 10.14 Mojave, and the latest available OpenGL only supports up to version on their platforms is 4.1. This means that while it is possible to build and run Citra for The new Vulkan renderer addresses this by utilizing the MoltenVK translation layer instead of OpenGL, enabling compatibility with macOSsystems. Additionally, newer these latest builds will crash when attempting to run any games. Users on macOS are advised to stick to build 1782 (the latest with Universal and have native support for older versions of OpenGL) for the time beingboth Intel and Apple Silicon.

Additionally==Issues with downloading==If you decide to install it from the archived link, only Intel Macs (x86_64) are officially supported at the moment. The devs may eventually add support updater tries to fetch for Apple Silicon at a later time.updates and cant fetch any due to it shutting down forcing you to quit the setup

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