Instructions for Installing Nintendo 3DS Emulator To Play Pokemon, Mario

If you are a lover of Nintendo games such as Pokemon or Mario or Legend of Zelda, surely famous Nintendo gaming devices such as GBA, DS, 3DS are no longer strange to you. However, not everyone can own them, because they are too old and difficult to find if you want to buy new. So  WebTech360 will guide you to use Citra emulator to be able to play attractive Nintendo 3DS games.

Citra 3DS: Play Nintendo 3DS Game Emulator Smoothly on PC

Citra 3DS is an emulator that makes it easy for you to play Nintendo games, although currently Citra emulators cannot be fully compatible with all games, but this software always ensures the ability to work. Dynamic and popular for you to play games from Pokemon to Mario on 3DS smoothly.

The advantage of Citra 3DS is not only that it can play Nintendo 3DS games , but also supports many high-class features that allow you to freely adjust the graphics to make it sharper, improve images as well as detail and increase much higher resolution than your 3DS.

For example, in Pokémon Omega Ruby , you will often see image aliasing that makes the character not smooth, with Citra 3DS anti-aliasing will help your image become smooth, the character is not angular. Edges and environments also become clearer.

Note that Citra 3DS is not 100% compatible, but it works very well and is the best 3DS emulator available today. Some of the most popular 3DS games are fully playable on this emulator, so if you want to find out about the compatibility of the game you want to play first to experience the best 3DS games.

Instructions for Emulating Nintendo 3DS with Citra 3DS

First, go to the Citra 3DS website:  here

Citra 3DS Download

Then click download here, it will open the Citra 3DS download folder, then continue to click  Download For Windows x64 and download the software

After the download is complete, we open the Citrasetup application by clicking on the downloaded file.exe

After downloading Citra, open the CitraSetup application by clicking on the .exe file you just downloaded and installed. At this point, a folder will appear and you just need to click next and then select the folder to store the Citra 3DS emulator you want to download, the system will update you with the latest version of Citra.

Note during the installation process you will see that Citra allows you to choose two versions that are Citra Nightly and CItra Canary, basically the Nightly version is a highly stable version and the Canary version is a trial version with high stability. can play some specific games without errors, but will not support some popular titles such as Nightly,

Citra Nightly and CItra Canary

After the installation is complete you have the best citra 3DS emulator in your device, now is how we can experience Nintendo 3DS games on this software.

Instructions for getting 3DS games on your PC

This will be a more difficult step for you, because the Citra emulator to play 3DS games will have to run the file with a different extension than the standard 3DS disc. Their tail will be written as Decrypted and for the most convenience you can download 3DS games on PC  here

Note you should only download the 3DS game on your PC with the Decrypted extension instead of the CIA extension because if you download CIA you will have to do a few more steps which is Install CIA and Patch CIA on the 3DS and to do that will be useless. annoying and potentially buggy, so WebTech360 recommends that you only download Decrypted games. ( WebTech360 will show you how to Patch CIA some games without Decrypted files later in another article)

Tail Game Decrypted

After downloading and unzipping, now go to Citra 3DS, open the file to your game directory and experience Pokemon, Mario,... any 3DS game.

Open the file containing the game folder

The game folder will be saved on Citra's board for you to open the game later

So you can already experience the Nintendo 3DS game in the simplest way, but at this point the game's graphics will be at a basic level and have not been adjusted to the best level as well as many of you will be quite confused. The problem is how to press the keys of the Citra 3DS emulator to be able to play. Then continue to follow the next part.

The most convenient 3DS configuration guide.

To adjust the configuration of your 3DS games on Citra, go to the Emulation section on the Citra toolbar and select Configure... Now you will see an adjustment window appear.

Go to the Graphics section here, there will be the Internal Resolution section which is the resolution, the higher the resolution, the larger and smoother the screen will be, users often leave it to 1200x720 for easy experience. The 2 items below have the Texture Filter and Post-Processing Shader sections to help adjust the shading as well as the image quality, please choose to suit your eyes best.

Instructions for adjusting the Citra 3DS button

As for the button adjustment, it is still in the Configure  section  , please adjust down to the Controls section , then you will identify your buttons to suit your own hands, basically the Nintendo3DS's keys are adjusted to match the hand buttons. on your keyboard, so if you have a handle it will be even easier to play. However, you can try to experience the Citra3DS's own manual keys to.

And that's what WebTech360 summarizes to help you experience the best Citra emulator Because the 3DS emulator still can't fully play all the games, so if you want to find out the compatibility of the games, you can refer to the Citra Compatibility Wiki  here

Here you will see games with different levels and Perfect and Great levels are the two that give you the best and most stable experience of the game without any problems related to freezing or crashing. about language.

Experience Pokemon Sun on Citra 3DS emulator

In addition, you can refer to a few good configurations to play the 3DS Citra emulator below to be able to best experience the games.

You can refer to more  graphics PC configurations to play the smoothest Citra 3DS emulator below:

🔵 Configuration 1: HHPC GAMING - INTEL CORE i3 12100F | 8G RAM | GTX 1050 Ti

➤ MAINBOARD: MSI PRO H610M-B DDR4
➤ CPU: INTEL CORE i3 12100F up to 4.3G | 4 CORE | 8 THREAD
➤ RAM: KINGSTON FURY BEAST 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200Mhz
➤ VGA: NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti 4GB GDDR5
➤ SSD: 256GB NVME M.2 2280 SSD
➤ SOURCE: GIGABYTE P450B 450W 80 PLUS BRONZE
➤ CASE: SAMA 3 3301 GLASS LED RGB

🔵 Configuration 2: HHPC GAMING - INTEL CORE i3 12100F | 8G RAM | GTX 1650

➤ MAINBOARD: MSI PRO H610M-B DDR4
➤ CPU: INTEL CORE i3 12100F up to 4.3G | 4 CORE | 8 THREAD
➤ RAM: KINGSTON FURY BEAST 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200Mhz
➤ VGA: NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650 4GB
➤ SSD: 256GB SSD NVME M.2 2280
➤ SOURCE: GIGABYTE P450B 450W 80 PLUS BRONZE
➤ CASE: SAMA 3 F301 GLASS LED RGB

🔵 Configuration 3: HHPC GAMING - INTEL CORE i3 12100F | 8G RAM | GTX 1660 SUPER 

➤ MAINBOARD: MSI PRO H610M-B DDR4
➤ CPU: INTEL CORE i3 12100F up to 4.3G | 4 CORE | 8 THREAD
➤ RAM: KINGSTON FURY BEAST 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200Mhz
➤ VGA: NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB GDDR6
➤ SSD: 256GB SSD NVME M.2 2280
➤ SOURCE: GIGABYTE P450B 450W 80 PLUS BRONZE
➤ CASENH: SAMA 3301 KÍ RGB LED FAN

🔵 Configuration 4: HHPC GAMING - INTEL CORE i3 12100F | 8G RAM | RX 3050

➤ MAINBOARD: MSI PRO H610M-B DDR4
➤ CPU: INTEL CORE i3 12100F up to 4.3G | 4 CORE | 8 THREAD
➤ RAM: KINGSTON FURY BEAST 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200Mhz
➤ VGA: NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3050 8GB
➤ SSD: 256GB SSD NVME M.2 2280
➤ SOURCE: GIGABYTE P450B 450W 80 PLUS BRONZE
➤ CASE: SAMA 3 F301 GLASS LED RGB

🔵 Configuration 5: HHPC GAMING - INTEL CORE i3 12100F | 8G RAM | RX 3060

➤ MAINBOARD: MSI PRO H610M-B DDR4
➤ CPU: INTEL CORE i3 12100F up to 4.3G | 4 CORE | 8 THREAD
➤ RAM: KINGSTON FURY BEAST 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200Mhz
➤ VGA: NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 12GB
➤ SSD: 256GB NVME M.2 2280 SSD
➤ SOURCE: GIGABYTE P550B 550W 80 PLUS BRONZE
➤ CASE: SAMA 3 301 KÍNH LED RGB

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