Homebrew Minecraft Legacy Console Edition Port For The 3DS.

[Gurluas]

Gotta admit, I am also hyped! :3

 

[SuffahBish]

I've been playing the LCE on my PC. There's a Windows build with mouse and keyboard support, multiplayer, and a bunch of fixes on github if anyone wants to try it out. There's also a separate group on there porting it to Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, and the web. Seeing how people are doing this on github and Microsoft hasn't DMCA'd them yet I guess they don't care about these old builds. I actually prefer the old LCE UI to the current UI.

 

[Gurluas]

I've been playing the LCE on my PC. There's a Windows build with mouse and keyboard support, multiplayer, and a bunch of fixes on github if anyone wants to try it out. There's also a separate group on there porting it to Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, and the web. Seeing how people are doing this on github and Microsoft hasn't DMCA'd them yet I guess they don't care about these old builds. I actually prefer the old LCE UI to the current UI.

Yeah I have it on PC too, but having it on my 3DS as a portable option is what's truly exciting.

 

[SimsCrafterZ]

Please, I want to be a beta tester!!!
Just send it to me in a private message.

 

[GravityGRVT]

Is it possibly something simple like VRAM/RAM size, or the old 3ds not having higher clock speeds?

It is. I just cannot find the bottleneck. Though it is probably many things. I do not own an O3DS so the way I test it is disabling the L2 cache and higher clock speed on the Luma New 3DS menu. It halves performance in nearly every scene regardless of render distance or mob spawns.

Post automatically merged: Apr 2, 2026

I've been playing the LCE on my PC. There's a Windows build with mouse and keyboard support, multiplayer, and a bunch of fixes on github if anyone wants to try it out. There's also a separate group on there porting it to Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, and the web. Seeing how people are doing this on github and Microsoft hasn't DMCA'd them yet I guess they don't care about these old builds. I actually prefer the old LCE UI to the current UI.

Well, I do not have a public repository so no Microsoft ninjas coming my way haha... Yet.

 

[Gurluas]

I can help you test with my O3DS if it is.

 

[SimsCrafterZ]

Please, I would also like to be a tester.

 

[Lumi456]

I have an O3DS and im great at Minecraft!

 

[Rhlp]

holy shoot! wow! i hope this can be made!
what features does this version have over the classic version?
also props to you for making this. thank you.

 

[SimsCrafterZ]

Post automatically merged: Apr 4, 2026

Give it to me !

Post automatically merged: Apr 5, 2026

Any news?

 

[SimsCrafterZ]

@lightwo, why this reaction?

 

[Gurluas]

@lightwo, why this reaction?

Might be all the doubleposting. Be patient and wait for testers to be contacted or for it to be released.
We all want news.

 

[SimsCrafterZ]

For now there is this https://gbatemp.net/threads/w-i-p-port-of-minecraft-lce-for-3ds.680437/

 

[MikaDubbz]

Forgive my naivety, I know very little about Minecraft. What makes the legacy console edition better than the official N3DS release?

 

[lightwo]

Forgive my naivety, I know very little about Minecraft. What makes the legacy console edition better than the official N3DS release?

Official 3DS release is based on Pocket Edition; cut down, botched and pretty slow at that.

LCE is more feature-complete, and having access to the code base lets the community make a better port.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Official 3DS release is based on Pocket Edition; cut down, botched and pretty slow at that.

LCE is more feature-complete, and having access to the code base lets the community make a better port.

I guess I was looking for specifics. What features make it more feature complete? I dont doubt it's better, but I want to know exactly what features it has that the official release doesn't.

 

[lightwo]

I guess I was looking for specifics. What features make it more feature complete? I dont doubt it's better, but I want to know exactly what features it has that the official release doesn't.

From the top of my head, 3DS version only has LAN multiplayer, very few settings, no resource packs, has a particularly small world size, is missing a massive amount of blocks, items, mobs, mechanics, etc. Stability is also much worse, as playing in worlds becomes laggier the more you play.

I believe a lot of it can be attributed to the outdated (even at the time) Pocket Edition version the 3DS version was based on, but considering it had no 3D support, it was nothing special, just a pretty horrible and barren port.

Some of those shortcomings were solved using mods, but that's pretty much turning shit into turd... just a fun curiousity at best.

 

[LucaDOS]

what you got here is really nothing short of impressive, with enough tinkering and optimizing this port could be leagues better than the official one so good luck with this project... (also, if you need a beta tester with an old 3ds im totally down)

 

[SimsCrafterZ]

@GravityGRVT, can we have a gameplay video?

 

[lightwo]

@GravityGRVT, can we have a gameplay video?

Have some patience. The developer is under no obligation to post anything or bring in new testers until it's ready. Consider that asking about it over and over could slow things down, if anything...