Citra used to be the top Nintendo 3DS emulator for PC. However, Citra was canceled after Nintendo shut down Yuzu. After all, the team responsible for it was the same that was working on Yuzu. Luckily, though, a new emulator called Lime has emerged from Citra’s ashes. So, let’s take a closer look at it.
According to its description, Lime is the world’s most popular, open-source, Nintendo 3DS emulator. The emulator is written in C++ with portability in mind. Right now, builds are actively maintained for Windows, Linux, Android, and macOS. So yes, you can use it to turn your mobile into a 3DS console.
From the looks of it, this is a fork of Citra. As such, it will run all the games that were compatible with it. It will also inherit the problems and issues that the latest build of Citra had.
Basically, Lime is similar to what Nuzu and Suzu are to Yuzu. And yes, you can download it as we speak. All you have to do is head over at its GitHub page.
In similar news, Citra Enhanced will be rebranded with a new name, Lemonade. Lime and Lemonade seem quite similar, so I don’t know whether there is a connection between Gamer64 and RyzenDew. As Gamer64 claimed, the first release of Lemonade may take some time.
So there you have it. A new Citra-based Nintendo 3DS emulator is already available, and another one will be coming soon. And, in all honesty, this was to be expected.
Let’s now hope that the teams behind them won’t make the same mistakes that the Yuzu team did. Not only that, but it will be also interesting to see Nintendo’s reaction. Will it continue hunting down these emulators? Or will it give up?
Stay tuned for more!
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Take that Craptendo. More the merrier.
Good name
F*k Nintendo. I was looking forward for the switch 2 but since you are so backwards thinking you can get wrecked.
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Pongs at the Nintendo HQ right now:
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Really cool to see. There’s a bunch of titles still only available on 3DS . The way scalpers have driven up prices on the carts and after Nintendo shut down the 3DS E Store, 3DS emulation is probably the best way to play a lot of the titles.
Nintendo simply don’t want to monetize their own past work.
Are they mental? Pretty much, but they WANT their customers to scalp, it’s obvious. They see it as a collector’s items, while I see their games as games.
Its partly on the publishers and on Nintendo since we don’t necessarily know if some are kept as part of an agreement. However, its ridiculous that even third party titles like SMT IV, Stella Glow, MH3/4 are just stuck for no reason with no word on a port.
Its partly on the publishers and on Nintendo since we don’t necessarily know if some are kept as part of an agreement. However, its ridiculous that even third party titles like SMT IV, Stella Glow, MH3/4 are just stuck for no reason with no word on a port.
I don’t know about the current prices but back in 17-21 when I had 3ds the games I liked were about 5-20$ used cartridges, for example mgs3 3ds was like 15-20$ and I resold it for maybe 5$ loss. I see now on feebay it’s like 50$ wow. Although SMB 3d land is still pretty cheap 5$, yoshis woolly world still around same price so it’s hit or miss there. What’s funny is woolly world had a version packaged with the yarn poochy doll which I had and that version if you have all of it is like 200$ now, think it was about 40$ when I got it, that doll paid for the whole thing and then some later on for me lol
Its like I get the collector aspect of it and that market should exist to an extent but some people just want to play the games and there should be available options for them to do so. Similar to trading cards that have multiple rarities, you can let investors and collectors have their high rarity charizards but you should also let the casuals and competitives who dont care for the flash have their lower barrier to entry.
Like Disney there is a class of people who are super into nintendont, almost cult like and so stuff like that is going to happen. I didn’t buy the poochy doll I was buying the game for my 3ds as I love the aesthetic there and had an awesome time playing it with extra levels and such. Nintendont never released the poochy doll standalone so it was an exception, packaged w the game. I have played it with I think cemu or one of the other emus since selling the 3ds and all games, looks way better but lacks the extra poochy levels the 3ds version had. The game itself is the same price used it was years ago about 30$.
In Spain we have an expression for this, “no se le pueden poner puertas al campo”, would be something like “you can’t place doors for the countryside”. It acknowledges the impossibility to impose limits to something you can’t control.
Nintendo can keep taking down emulators and they will keep coming back but multiplied, like the head of the hydra.
Well said buddy!
To hell with Nintendo – most anticonsumer trash their is!
Optimism that brightens up the workplace like a sunny day.
yeah citra’s been out forever but 3ds didn’t have too many exclusives tbh, it was re releases for the 3d gimmick which was cool tech btw but unless you had eye tracking versions was pretty spotty to use. I had a 3ds for a few years there was about 5 games for it outside of zeldas and none of them aren’t better played via cemu or the other ones from wii/u releases or just pc versions. MGS3 was kinda cool w the 3d effect though definitely a unique console. Good to see it will go on in different forms.
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3DS in as far as I know need decrypted ROM to be able to play, so its probably safer than Yuzu, it’s just get caught in the middle of Nintendo and Tropic Haze battle
The difference between a REAL gaming company, and a company which cares only about money:
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Nintendo is the most overrated crap ever anyway.
Even their supposedly “best” RPGs like Chrono Trigger aged badly.
Aaaaand to the garbage bin it goes!
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