Citra – 3DS Emulator and Debugger Citra is an experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C. Although it is slow at this time, it is constantly being improved. Citra's features include better visual output, debugging homebrew, and controller support. The are hosted on GitHub.
Citra is licensed under GPLv2 (or any later version). Refer to the license.txt file included. Usage You may download a precompiled binary from, or you can build it yourself from the source code. To Ubuntu users: only 18.04 and up provides sufficient dependencies to build Citra. Please upgrade your system if you are on a lower version (or grab dependencies somewhere else if you know how to) If you are having trouble building Citra from the source code, see this wiki page:. Now, you'll need to dump the games you want to play with your 3DS. If you have any save files or extra data on your 3DS that you want to import into Citra, you'll have to dump them as well.
If you have updates or DLCs on your 3DS that you want to use with Citra, you'll have to dump them as well. In order to make some games work, you'll have to dump some system files from your 3DS.
Description: 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.