ArticBase, a tool to broadcast your 3DS games to an emulator, has been released

Egoistamamono · May 13, 2024

Interesting

TempGamer · May 13, 2024

AkiraKurusu said:
...They do realise they misspelled "Arctic", right?
Unless they're doing the 'Articuno' thing, and doing it on purpose.

arceus said:
why is it artic and not arctic ive been thinking about this all day please help

put the letters of that word in reverse order and see what happens

ZCools · May 13, 2024

Used this as I heard about it and it works well, but some games don't work like Pokemon Sun or Super smash bros 3ds. are you able a provide a list of games that ore verifed to work on it.

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Used this as I heard about it and it works well, but some games don't work like Pokemon Sun or Super smash bros 3ds. are you able a provide a list of games that ore verifed to work on it.

nyoumfly · May 13, 2024

arceus said:
why is it artic and not arctic ive been thinking about this all day please help

citra backwards :]

Egoistamamono · May 13, 2024

Same problem as other users, Citra is closed when connecting to 3ds. Already press allow in windows firewall

lordelan · May 13, 2024

The save syncing is the best feature imho. Great idea. Should be done for Wii U and Switch too.

Would be cool to play those temporarily on my Steam Deck while the save file is still up to date on the Wii U itself.

PabloMK7 · May 13, 2024

smilodon said:
The lengths pirates go not to admit they are pirating...

Excuse me? Apparently I'm now a pirate for playing the games I own. Very logical.

fvig2001 said:
Cool in concept but sucks that 3DS' wifi is pretty terrible. I do hope that there's an alternative solution where you can use this to get the rom initially and then just sync saves with another tool.

Have you actually tried it? Once the game boots loading times get better. Most of the times you just forget you are playing the game from the real console.

regnad said:
You need a modded system to be able to do this. I suppose Nintendo could argue just owning a modded console is encouraging piracy or online cheating. It certainly enables it.

Here in Japan it’s illegal to modify your system, regardless of what you do or don’t do with it.

The modification of consoles is considered legal in Europe and Spain, there are some legal battles about it. Artic Base does not bypass DRM as it only redirects filesystem calls to the operating system.

xxjeysonxx said:
I was testing some games on an OLD3DS and discovered that articbase does not activate in extended memory games like smash bros and pokemon sun and moon

Just noticed a bug, create a "plugins" folder inside the luma folder in your SD card. I will fix it in the next release.

sagey said:
i hate to be the "erm ackshually" type of person but that's not hollow knight

Yes, that's what happens when you try to write something as fast as possible without paying too much attention. x)

SecureBoot said:
Okay, so I'm playing around with it some, and it doesn't seem to actually "sync" saves between an emulator and a console. It just streams the saves on the 3ds. So, if like me, you wanted to connect the 3ds to the emulator, sync the saves, then put the 3ds away for a bit to play later, then connect and resync when you want to play on the console, you're SoL. Still a cool project though.

Because "sync save data" is more understandable than "redirect save data filesystem calls to the 3DS so that the actually loading and saving is performed in the console itself" x).

Many people have asked to make a standalone version that only syncs saves. That is outside of the scope of the tool.

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fvig2001 said:
Tested it out using new super mario bros 2 using latest luma3ds on my 2ds and arctic 3dsx.

Citra crashes on connect. Arctic says it's connected then error reading from socket. I already allowed it through firewall of windows.

Debug log ends at worker 3: Processing Process_GetExheader

Edit:

Tested using Cavestory 3d cart and same result. msys/vc versions behave the same.

Annoyingly, there's a suspended citra-qt.exe using 36kb that I can't kill.

Edit2:
Tested on Android with my Tab s8 ultra and I don't know. Performance is choppy compared to my LG V60 using Citra MMJ. It takes like 3 minutes to get into New Super Mario Bros. main menu.

On S24 Ultra, it crashes on the same place as windows

I've been trying to find the cause of this for the last few hours, I'm just not able to reproduce it myself no matter what I do, and the logs are not very helpful

Metoroid0 · May 13, 2024

uhm.......................this is..............................interesting?

i actually like this idea.

fvig2001 · May 13, 2024

PabloMK7 said:
Excuse me? Apparently I'm now a pirate for playing the games I own. Very logical.

Have you actually tried it? Once the game boots loading times get better. Most of the times you just forget you are playing the game from the real console.

The modification of consoles is considered legal in Europe and Spain, there are some legal battles about it. Artic Base does not bypass DRM as it only redirects filesystem calls to the operating system.

Just noticed a bug, create a "plugins" folder inside the luma folder in your SD card. I will fix it in the next release.

Yes, that's what happens when you try to write something as fast as possible without paying too much attention. x)

Because "sync save data" is more understandable than "redirect save data filesystem calls to the 3DS so that the actually loading and saving is performed in the console itself" x).

Many people have asked to make a standalone version that only syncs saves. That is outside of the scope of the tool.

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I've been trying to find the cause of this for the last few hours, I'm just not able to reproduce it myself no matter what I do, and the logs are not very helpful

Well I did run it on my S8 Tab Ultra and it was slow on New Mario 2 like vulcan or opengl even at 1x for the 2 stages I played like 2/3 the speed.

With regards to debugging, how about creating a build with additional debug lines? Maybe I can test it since it affects my PC and my cellphone

Localhorst86 · May 13, 2024

While I will most likely keep on using citra the "normal" way, this is certainly an interesting concept, It's just more convenient to not have the 3ds system running to play a game.

I'll still gonna try it out later.

PabloMK7 · May 13, 2024

fvig2001 said:
Well I did run it on my S8 Tab Ultra and it was slow on New Mario 2 like vulcan or opengl even at 1x for the 2 stages I played like 2/3 the speed.

With regards to debugging, how about creating a build with additional debug lines? Maybe I can test it since it affects my PC and my cellphone

If Citra did not run smoothly using game dumps, this will not fix it magically. Performance will stay the same.

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New builds of PabloMK7/citra (r71eca05) and Artic Base Server (v1.0.1) have been released.

Fixed a crashing issue when booting games if Citra was never used before.
Fixed extended memory games not working if 3GX plugins were never used before.

You can find the new releases in the OP.

SDA · May 13, 2024

You're basically playing your 3DS as usual but the game appears on the emulator rather than on the 3DS's screen.

ROFL moment

Egoistamamono · May 13, 2024

I can use it now, but why does it show the same two screens? (Top screen) Only and how do I make the console into a controller? I controlled it from my PC keyboard during the test.

PabloMK7 · May 13, 2024

Egoistamamono said:
I can use it now, but why does it show the same two screens? (Top screen) Only and how do I make the console into a controller? I controlled it from my PC keyboard during the test.

You may have a buggy driver or GPU, try to switch to OpenGL. About the controller, it's something that may be implemented in the future but doesn't work rn.

Makosen · May 13, 2024

So, if the server crashes or stops connecting for some reason, the entire game closes. I was wondering if it was possible to have citra automatically save state before it closes to avoid losing progress?

PabloMK7 · May 13, 2024

Makosen said:
So, if the server crashes or stops connecting for some reason, the entire game closes. I was wondering if it was possible to have citra automatically save state before it closes to avoid losing progress?

Save states don't work with artic base currently. There is some state in the server side that cannot be saved.

In any case, I didn't experience a single server crash, and you can connect your console to the PC hotspot so you never lose connection.

Makosen · May 13, 2024

PabloMK7 said:
Save states don't work with artic base currently. There is some state in the server side that cannot be saved.

Then would it be possible to pause the game and wait for it to reconnect instead of just outright completely closing? Or some other way to mitigate the crashes.

PabloMK7 · May 13, 2024

Makosen said:
Then would it be possible to pause the game and wait for it to reconnect instead of just outright completely closing? Or some other way to mitigate the crashes.

Are you actually getting any crashes?
There may be ways to allow reconnecting, but that has to be investigated.

Makosen · May 13, 2024

PabloMK7 said:
Are you actually getting any crashes?
There may be ways to allow reconnecting, but that has to be investigated.

Maybe crash isn't the right term but it gave me an error about the connection, then automatically closed the game. My 3DS was in sleep mode if that matters, but it was working fine for quite a while. It's only happened once so far, but it is pretty dishearting when playing something like an rpg to have the looming threat of the game just suddenly closing without letting you save beforehand and losing all your progress.

That aside, it works fantastically from what I tested, I don't wanna sound like a complainer, the fact that this even works at all is amazing.

fvig2001 · May 13, 2024

So tested it on the latest update and it works now. At least on PC, I get good speeds. It works but like on Mario, besides longer wait times, music doesn't start at the correct time and then the game tries to catch up and then at times, there are random stutters when something hasn't loaded yet, which is a bit worse than the usual stutters. After everything's loaded, it plays pretty well.

I'll probably use this as a way to consolize my 3ds i guess

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