Ever wanted to play Nintendo 3DS games on your Android device? Well, the Citra development team has just made your dreams reality, with their brand new release of Citra Android. The hard work from many different developers, including ones who have previously worked on Dolphin and Yuzu, has culminated in a beta version of the official build of Citra that you can grab from the Google Play Store for free. Running Citra on your phone or tablet will require, at minimum, Android 8 Oreo and support for OpenGL ES 3.2. Having a snapdragon 835 chip is recommended in order to get the best performance possible, but isn't mandatory. The Android version of the emulator even has features such as microphone support, camera support for scanning QR codes, and was shown running Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Mario Kart 7, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Fire Emblem: Fates, and more, in addition to certain Virtual Console titles.

What Works and What Doesn’t?
The app is still in beta. So, while we have tried to squash the bugs we’ve come across, you may still run into the occasional glitch. If you run into any major problems, please report them to us on our Discord server or forum and we will try to organise them.

The app requires a minimum of 64-bit Android 8 (Oreo), and OpenGL ES 3.2 support. These are relatively high requirements; however, they allow us to ensure that every device that can run Citra will have a reasonably good experience. As for hardware, we recommend a device with a Snapdragon 835 or better. Your experience may vary greatly depending on the quality of your device’s GPU drivers.

Pokémon on an older device

Pokémon on a newer device

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[HideoKojima]

6 fps on galaxy s7

 

[snobbysteven]

Sweet deal! I will have to see how well these games run on my one plus 7t

 

[nero99]

don't recommend on a SnapDragon 632 because you get slow speed. (moto g7 power) just tested it on this phone.

you are also limited by the 3 to 4 GB of ram in that phone. its also most likely under clocked since that phone is pretty cheap. a slow octa-core cpu in any machine is not very good.

 

[GbaNober]

This is GOOD news

 

[notimp]

Tried

Fire Emblem
Kawashima
and two Ace Attourney titles

All ran pretty much full speed on a Snapdragon 855 phone.

Fireemblem lagged in battle animations (but you should be able to turn those off..) (lag was like a loading lag, so maybe its shaders caching...).

The two Ace Attorney titles had a graphical glitch when hardware shaders were activated (which are needed to get it full speed) across the screen (a line of triangles, the same one on both titles), but where perfectly playable.

Kawashima worked - pretty much perfectly.

So its more than a proof of concept..

 

[xdarkmario]

Does dumping my 3ds NAND make anything batter or is this only HLE for now?

 

[Deleted User]

I thought it was already out, huh.

same

 

[Shadow#1]

I thought it was already out, huh.

Does it have controller support?

Officialy nope it was not

 

[Bladexdsl]

lol people trying to play this on phones go get a galaxy tab

 

[Shadow#1]

lol people trying to play this on phones go get a galaxy tab [emoji38]

Because phones r usaly more powerful

 

[BaamAlex]

I thought it was already out, huh.

The title wouldn't be "Citra Emulator for Android gets it's first official release" then, right? Makes sense. Other versions shows a message screen which says this release is not from the original developers.

Does it have controller support?

Bluetooth maybe? Feel free to try it

 

[Quietlyawesome94]

Been waiting on this for awhile! Just tried Ocarina of Time 3D and cranked it to 4x internal resolution. Rock solid 30 FPS through the first part of the game on my S10e. (Snapdragon 855)

Controls fine with my 8bitdo SN30 Pro+. There's unfortunately not hotkey support yet. That'd make for quick switching on single screen very nice since side-by-side is cramped on small phone screens. But hey, this is pretty solid for a first release.

About to try New Leaf and Mario Kart 7.

 

[grey72]

inb4 this gets bombed with 1stars like dolphin

 

[Reshiban]

Finally

 

[proffk]

Has anyone tried running this on the Nvidia Shield TV. Cant find anyway to sideload this as apk is on playstore only.
Seems like this is for mobile devices only & no Android TV support.

 

[Shadow#1]

Has anyone tried running this on the Nvidia Shield TV. Cant find anyway to sideload this as apk is on playstore only.
Seems like this is for mobile devices only & no Android TV support.

Reading is the key to your salvation

 

[spotanjo3]

I am going to test it on my Samsung S9 and on my android tv which we bought last year. I will see how well they are on the speeds. I will be back and report later. I am going out to have fun with my cousin and my friend for lunch today!

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

Gonna need a beefy phone for this but that's still really nice to see such progress.

 

[BaamAlex]

Does anyone know why citra doesn't show my games? I choose the folder where they are stored, but they aren't visible.

 

[Shadow#1]

Does anyone know why citra doesn't show my games? I choose the folder where they are stored, but they aren't visible.

R the .3ds files deycriped?