Currently, there are two actively maintained Nintendo 3DS Emulators: Mikage and Panda3DS. Support for Citra was dropped in March of 2024 after a lawsuit from Nintendo. These emulators are both imperfect, and may have different bugs with different games. Some older and now unmaintained emulators are 3dmoo, TronDS, and XDS.
Please note that although the games are ON this page, they might not have been fully tested yet. Certain games will obviously perform better and more games will become playable as more and more updates come through, so the list is constantly updating and changing. Keep checking back if your game does not work, is slow, or is not tested.
Ratings[]
- 5 stars: Plays perfectly with no issues at all.
- 4 stars: Playable, with minor audio or graphical glitches, or both.
- 3 stars: In-game, may play fine but with some bad graphical issues or audio problems, or both. Might crash frequently.
- 2 stars: Menu/intro, Can see the intro and possibly the start screen, but crashes when loading the game.- - 1 star: Unplayable: Games that either don't boot at all or boot to a black screen.
- - Untested: Untested - not tested yet, may or may not be playable.
Homebrew[]
| Name | Type | Release Date | Developers | Citra Compatibility | Mikage Compatibility | Panda3DS Compatibility |
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| 3DScraft | November 20, 2014 (WW) | smealum | smealum |
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| 3DS Controller |
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| 3DS Tic Tac Toe |
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| 3DSPaint |
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| 3DSurfer |
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| 4Rows |
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| Big Red Menu | Rinnegatamante |
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| Custom HomeMenu Manager | Rinnegatamante |
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| Cinoop |
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| data_collector |
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| DownloadMii |
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| FBI |
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| ftbrony |
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| Guess the Number |
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| Hamsters 2DS |
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| Minesweeper 2DS |
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| NVRAM Flash Manager |
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| ORGANIZ3D |
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| Pong3D | January 14, 2014 (WW) | Snailface | Snailface |
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| QuickReboot |
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| Smash Bros "Dummy" Application |
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| Sunshell |
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| TE3DS | February 16, 2014 (WW) | nop90 and Snailface | nop90 and Snailface |
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| Tilemap 2DS |
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| Tiles 2DS |
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| UO_Gambatte 3DS |
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| Useless Homebrew |
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| World of 3DSand |
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| Y.A.R.U. |
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| Yeti3DS | January 19, 2014 (WW) | smealum | smealum |
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Emulators[]
| Name | Type | Release Date | Developers | Publishers | Citra Compatibility | Mikage Compatibility | Panda3DS Compatibility |
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| 3DNES | NES emulator | St4rk | St4rk |
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| 3DSGBA | GBA emulator | Steveice10 | Steveice10 |
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| BlargSnes | SNES Emulator | August 10, 2014 (WW) | StapleButter | StapleButter |
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| CitrAGB | GBA emulator | shinyquagsire23 | shinyquagsire23 |
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| CHIP-3DS | CHIP-8 emulator | xerpi | xerpi |
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| GameYob | GameBoy Emulator | February 23, 2013 (WW) | Drenn | Drenn |
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| Nestopia3DS | NES Emulator | March 15, 2015 | Steveice10 | Steveice10 |
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