With Citra Gone, This New 3DS Emulator is Taking Over

Over the weekend, on GitHub, a new 3DS emulator was released. It is a test release offered by the Azahar team, and the team claimed it would be taken as a stable release after seven days if there aren’t discovered any major issues within it.

The innovative entry was launched to overcome the lack of Citra which was released in 2014. It was given the name Citra, and the codename Project Citra is derived from CTR (a model name of the original 3DS). It was a community-driven platform where anyone could access its source code to examine, modify, or distribute it.

It was available with GNU General Public License v2. Unfortunately, the platform was taken down under a lawsuit. It was settled down with Nintendo America with $4.2 million, and support of “Yuzu” was discontinued for Citra.

It proves the huge setback in 3DS emulation, and as a result, a new 3DS emulator named LIME was released by Azahar’developers, and they asked users to report if they found any issues via GitHub.

“If you are unwilling to tolerate potential minor issues, you may be better off waiting until a release candidate is promoted to a full release,”

It means, the developers also confess the releasing emulator wouldn’t offer perfect emulation at the first stage, and the users shouldn’t expect to run a lot of games on their Android device.

The emulator at first stage by default isn’t in a position to run encrypted games and .3DS files. Instead, the team offers CCI files for games, but the converting process for the extension of files from 3DS to CCI is under processing.

The new 3DS emulator offers some new features and fixes, but the disabling of “right eye rendering” may be the most exciting addition. It is true; that playing 2D games is just wasting of time and resources, but Nintendo 3DS offers games for both left and right eye for 3D-enabling titles. The developers give preference one eye rendering, as it boosts up the performance by up to 50%. The innovative 3DS emulator is available for Android devices. No doubt, it is a new option, but you can use Citra for PC. We hope this emulator will be safe from the terrible impact of Nintendo and continue the emulation for gamers.