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I have a hombrewed luma new 3DS and am wondering if there is a list of emus that you can run either on the 3ds or on the r4 card after it's ran. I know you can run .nds almost by default and and I have .nds that acts as an emu for .nes games that's super simple to use but what about other systems? Like SNES, GBA, etc.
 
SNES: either bubble2k16's snes9x or using New Super Ultimate Injector to make injections in Ninty's SNES emu
GBA: NSUI again to use Ninty's almost-100% compatibility emu
NES: I forget exactly which emu bubble2k16 ported (QuickNES?), but it'll be able to run nes games at a full 240p (which the .nds can't do)
turbografx16: bubble2k16 made another emu for that
Genesis/Mega Drive/Master System: bubble's Picodrive

other emus:
mGBA: laggier than injects but supports savestates
retroarch: I have never gotten it to run games but apparently it can do PS1 at like half speed, supposedly newer builds are super unstable though & you can't get the old builds anywhere
 
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At first glance I thought this would be a thread about New Emulators that emulate the 3DS.
"Emulators for the New 3DS" would make more sense IMHO.
 
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SCOTT0852 said:
SNES: either bubble2k16's snes9x or using New Super Ultimate Injector to make injections in Ninty's SNES emu
GBA: NSUI again to use Ninty's almost-100% compatibility emu
NES: I forget exactly which emu bubble2k16 ported (QuickNES?), but it'll be able to run nes games at a full 240p (which the .nds can't do)
turbografx16: bubble2k16 made another emu for that
Genesis/Mega Drive/Master System: bubble's Picodrive

other emus:
mGBA: laggier than injects but supports savestates
retroarch: I have never gotten it to run games but apparently it can do PS1 at like half speed, supposedly newer builds are super unstable though & you can't get the old builds anywhere
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Don’t... just don’t use mGBA. Either use citrAGB (a gpsp port) if you can get it to work without crashing constantly, use vc injections or get Twilight Menu and use the built in GBARunner2 hypervisor.
And as for retroarch, I’d recommend replacing some of its cores with better ones like the bubble2k port cores. You can do this by putting the cia in the cores folder, deleting the one you want to replace, renaming the new one to the name of the old one and putting the rest of the thing on as if you’re installing normally.
Especially Snes9x 3ds- the versions on there are all bad and outdated, so I’d recommend disguising the newest stable cia build as the 2010 build and using it instead.
 
Plasmaster09 said:
Don’t... just don’t use mGBA. Either use citrAGB (a gpsp port) if you can get it to work without crashing constantly, use vc injections or get Twilight Menu and use the built in GBARunner2 hypervisor.
And as for retroarch, I’d recommend replacing some of its cores with better ones like the bubble2k port cores. You can do this by putting the cia in the cores folder, deleting the one you want to replace, renaming the new one to the name of the old one and putting the rest of the thing on as if you’re installing normally.
Especially Snes9x 3ds- the versions on there are all bad and outdated, so I’d recommend disguising the newest stable cia build as the 2010 build and using it instead.
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mGBA aint bad. it has got some recent updates to it. Why do you find it bad to use?
 
lone_wolf323 said:
mGBA aint bad. it has got some recent updates to it. Why do you find it bad to use?
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Likely because I'm using an o3ds XL and it performs like a paralyzed snail. On n3ds it might run a lot better, but honestly I'll stick to gbarunner2 unless I replace my o3ds with a n2ds if the thing ever breaks down.
However, you gotta admit that snes9x libretro sucks though and replacing that with the newest version is a good idea.
 
gPSP inside Retroarch now appears to have a stable dynarec. It will crash if you swap content so you need to exit retroarch every time, but within a game it seems flawless. So it is a very good option now, the one consistently fullspeed GBA emulator on new 3DS. (GBARunner2 is very cool but not really emulation.)
 
Dodain47 said:
How so? mGBA´s latest build has decent performance for most games on a New 3DS system.
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Decent, not good.
gpSP got its dynarec fixed and it’s now basically perfect so there’s no need to use mGBA when you can just use gpSP and Gambatte and get better performance.
 
There have been so many new developments really, even people who are very interested in the topic of emulation on the 3DS are losing it.
It would be great to have a sticky thread with a constantly updated overview of at least the main developments.
For example, I have noticed that many visitors and long time users are still not aware of the perfect C64 emulator Vice3DS. In this thread the outdated Breadbox is listed.
There is a wiki but I'm not sure if this is really the best place. And it's also hopelessly outdated.
https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/List_of_3DS_homebrew_emulators
 
Elwyndas said:
There have been so many new developments really, even people who are very interested in the topic of emulation on the 3DS are losing it.
It would be great to have a sticky thread with a constantly updated overview of at least the main developments.
For example, I have noticed that many visitors and long time users are still not aware of the perfect C64 emulator Vice3DS. In this thread the outdated Breadbox is listed.
There is a wiki but I'm not sure if this is really the best place. And it's also hopelessly outdated.
https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/List_of_3DS_homebrew_emulators
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https://wiidatabase.de/3ds-downloads/emulatoren/
It´s a german site, they update the emulator build on a regular basis.
 

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