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  "generated_at": "2026-11-03T13:36:34Z",
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        "core_version": "canary-82-6-g5401990",
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          "citra_canary"
        ],
        "display_name": "Nintendo - 3DS (Citra Canary/Experimental)",
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            "load_from": "data_dir",
            "name": "aes_keys.txt",
            "note": "AES encryption keys for decrypting 3DS content",
            "path": "sysdata/aes_keys.txt",
            "required": false,
            "source_ref": "src/core/hw/aes/key.cpp:71-131",
            "system": "nintendo-3ds"
          },
          {
            "hle_fallback": true,
            "load_from": "data_dir",
            "name": "shared_font.bin",
            "note": "system shared font, falls back to embedded open-source replacement",
            "path": "sysdata/shared_font.bin",
            "required": false,
            "source_ref": "src/core/hle/service/apt/apt.cpp:168-200",
            "system": "nintendo-3ds"
          }
        ],
        "library_name": "Citra Canary",
        "notes": "Canary branch of libretro/citra. Older codebase than master branch (citra core).\nMissing boot9.bin, sector0x96.bin, seeddb.bin support present in master.\nSeed crypto unimplemented (src/core/file_sys/ncch_container.cpp:169).\nUpstream citra-emu/citra taken down March 2024 (Nintendo lawsuit).\nMirror: https://github.com/citra-mirror/citra\n\nThe buildbot builds citra_canary from the canary branch of libretro/citra\n(libretro-super recipes/windows/cores-windows-x64_seh-noccache).\n\nUnder the default option citra_use_libretro_save_path the core points the\nroot and user directories at {save_dir}/Citra ({system_dir}/Citra without a\nsave directory), but GetUserPath fills sysdata/ on its first call, before\nthat, and the UserDir case never moves it. aes_keys.txt and\nshared_font.bin are read from the host's Citra data directory: user/sysdata/\nbeside the working directory when ./user exists, else\n$XDG_DATA_HOME/citra-emu/sysdata/ (Linux) or user/sysdata/ beside the\nexecutable, else %APPDATA%/Citra/sysdata/ (Windows). Neither the system nor\nthe save directory of the frontend.\nref: src/citra_libretro/citra_libretro.cpp:295-316, src/common/file_util.cpp:674-736,\nsrc/common/common_paths.h:16-38\n\nThe core reports library_name \"Citra Canary\".\nref: src/citra_libretro/environment.cpp:131\n\nEmbedded open-source replacements for shared font, country list, bad word list.\nref: src/core/file_sys/archive_ncch.cpp:142-147\n\nfirmware_count absent in .info (= 0).\n",
        "profiled_date": "2026-03-23",
        "source": "https://github.com/libretro/citra",
        "source_branch": "canary",
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          "kind": "tag",
          "tag": "canary-82"
        }
      }
    }
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}