Homebrew Is there a simulator we can use for development?

[mashers]

I've just got a 3DS build environment set up on my Mac and am now about to start exploring the APIs and learning how to code homebrew for the 3DS. My first project is intended to be an improved homebrew launcher. I'm wondering whether there is a simulator we can use to test 3dsx builds? FTPing the 3dsx to a real 3DS every time seems arduous...

 

[Gocario]

Could Citra work?

 

[suloku]

citra works, sd and all.
I've just realized I'm not using it and it would have been much easier to debug some things... well, I have my ds right here.

Check 3dslink.exe, hbl has netloading capabilities (press Y), but its a little picky, sometimes it won't connect.

 

[mashers]

Hey, it works! Just downloaded Citra and it runs a hello world test app perfectly. Thanks everyone!

 

[AmandaRose]

Hey, it works! Just downloaded Citra and it runs a hello world test app perfectly. Thanks everyone!

Hey so I am just wondering what improvements are you thinking of adding?

 

[Rinnegatamante]

Citra is much more slower then real hardware and doesn't support some services (like CSND for example) so it depends on what you need to test if it's a good choice or not.

 

[neobrain]

Citra will work for some cases, but mind you developing homebrew solely on Citra has a high chance of making sure your application will not work on hardware, and by the time you actually test it on real hardware it might already be too hard to figure out where the issues are.

Developing on Citra while regularly testing on hardware should be fine, though. As others already mentioned, there's a high chance you'll eventually run into an unsupported feature in Citra, though.

 

[suloku]

Yes, you should test from time to time, some of my builds worked on citra but crashed on real hardware (a bug's life...).