And the emulator still can't recreate the 3DS' sound effects or music, either. Many games still have to rely on an inefficient software interpreter, which runs games like Super Monkey Ball 3D at "1 FPS to 5 FPS" on an Intel Core i5 processor, according to the poster of the above (sped up) video. There's still a lot of work to be done before Citra's 3DS emulation is perfected, though. The raw version runs at "1 FPS to 5 FPS." AdvertisementĪ sped up version of Super Monkey Ball 3D running in Citra. There are a few homebrew demos available as well, including emulators for other systems running inside of the 3DS emulator and the kind of Minecraft port that's seemingly required for all emulation projects these days.
Virtual Console titles were shown off in February, and just this week team members posted evidence of Animal Crossing New Leaf, Super Monkey Ball 3D, and even the system's home menu running through emulation. Since then, compatibility work has continued on a seemingly game-by-game basis. That title has now been shown running at nearly full speed on Citra with the help of an OpenGL renderer (though some visual artifacts still exist). The Citra emulation project has been in the works for at least a year, but developers reached a breakthrough last December when they managed to load Ocarina of Time 3D for the first time. Unfortunately for Nintendo, that seems unlikely in the case of the 3DS. Hardware makers, always wary of the piracy implications of such a development, may hope that doesn't happen until many years after that console ceases to be commercially viable.
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Further Reading Here’s how to run homebrew on your 3DSGiven enough time and attention from the development community, it's practically inevitable that any video game console can and will be emulatable on a general-use computer.