Citra is a work-in-progress emulator for the Nintendo 3DS.
+Citra is a work-in-progress 3DS emulator. Citra can currently emulate, with varying degrees of success, + a wide variety of different homebrew programs and commercial software.
-It can currently emulate ctrulib-built homebrew - programs, such as Smealum's port of Yeti3D.
-Citra is also beginning to run some commercial games, but all are very broken and unplayable.
- -In nice, bold letters: No! Citra is not ready yet!. You can not play Pokémon, Super - Mario Bros., or any of your other favorite 3DS games yet.
-If you check back in a year or two, this may no longer be the case.
+Citra can, ostensibly, "play" many different games, including The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Animal + Crossing. Many games, however, will not load at all, only showing a black screen. Many other games will + only show the title screen and then freeze, or crash.
+You can expect almost all games to run incredibly slowly, though, and to exhibit many gameplay and graphical + glitches.
+If you're interested in 3DS emulation as an experiment, you may gain something out of trying Citra, but if + you're simply looking to play games then stick to your 3DS handheld.
We're pleased to say that Citra works on all three major desktop OSs!
@@ -146,11 +146,10 @@ targeted as well.Citra currently uses an interpreter to emulate the 3DS's CPU, as well as a software renderer for the - GPU. As one might imagine, this is very inefficient, so it is doubtful that most (if any!) consumer - hardware would be fast enough to run at full-speed.
-In short, there's no real recommended hardware, but suffice it to say that you want the fastest - possible processor, and a graphics chip that supports at least OpenGL 3.2.
+Citra currently uses (very slow!) interpreters to emulate both the 3DS's CPU and 3DS vertex shaders. Your + computer is simply not fast enough to run almost any commercial game at full speed.
+The only hard requirement for Citra is a graphics chip that supports at least OpenGL 3.2, + but you definitely want a processor with the highest possible performance per core.
At the moment, there are no stable versions of Citra for you to download, however, you can download @@ -158,7 +157,7 @@ where a stable version becomes viable, we'll make those available for download.
Citra's source is hosted on GitHub, which is a +
Citra's source code is hosted on GitHub, which is a platform where developers can come together on a project, submitting pull requests with code changes.
You probably want to check out the contributor's guide and the developer information.