The first commercial Nintendo 3DS game to be run by Citra was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. Ĭitra was initially created in April 2014. The same team is also developing a Nintendo Switch emulator, named yuzu.

The majority of the development happens on GitHub, and more than 215 developers have contributed to Citra's repository on GitHub. Ĭitra is free and open-source and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. Citra does not work well with older PCs and needs to be run on a decently powerful 圆4 or ARM64 CPU. Citra's name is derived from CTR, which is the model name of the original 3DS. Citra requires OpenGL version 3.3 or later to run. Citra can run almost all homebrew games and many commercial games. Single Core Performance > 1,800 on PassmarkĬitra is an emulator of the handheld game console Nintendo 3DS, developed by Citra and contributors.