Citra is a discontinued

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game console emulator of the handheld system

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for

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, and Android. Citra's name is derived from ''CTR'', which is the model name of the original 3DS. Citra can run many homebrew games and commercial games. Citra was first made available in 2014. The core team behind it went on to develop

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emulator

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in 2018. Support for Citra by the Yuzu team was dropped on March 5, 2024, following a $2.4 million settlement reached with

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Development

Citra was initially created in April 2014. The first commercial Nintendo 3DS game to be run by Citra was '' The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D''. Citra has been able to emulate audio since May 21, 2016, and has had a

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since September 15, 2016. In November 2017, Citra announced networking support for the emulator. The networking support emulates the 3DS's local

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, which originally made it possible to play over local networks. Additionally, Citra allows the networking to be compatible with other users anywhere. In April 2020, the Citra Team announced compatibility with

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games and support for

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s, and in May 2020, they announced a version of Citra for Android. The console's Home Menu was bootable from March 2023. In September 2023, support for

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was added as an experimental alternative to

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. In March 2024,

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and

developer Tropic Haze LLC reached a settlement prompting Tropic Haze to shut down operations for Yuzu. Additionally, Tropic Haze agreed to surrender or cease working on any project that involved Nintendo's copyrighted properties, and as a result support for Citra was dropped by the developers. Days later, Citra was forked into a

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repository by former Citra team member PabloMK7.

References

External links

Citra website
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Development

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