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Citra 2018

Citra 2018 emulates Nintendo 3DS. It reads 2 files, none of them required: it starts games without them.

About this profile
Detail Value
Type libretro
Classification Frozen snapshot
Source https://github.com/libretro/citra2018
Upstream https://github.com/citra-emu/citra
Version none stated in the source
Revision libretro/citra2018@95e2f06c179c
Profiled 2026-03-23
Profile YAML, JSON
Cores citra2018
Systems Nintendo 3DS
Install this emulator's files

The installer finds your setup and its BIOS folder, then downloads only the files this emulator reads there and checks each one.

Open the Start menu. Type PowerShell and open it. Paste the line. Press Enter.

PowerShell
&([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i.ps1))) --emulator citra2018
Technical notes

Frozen 2018 snapshot of the Citra 3DS emulator. Loads files from {system_dir}/Citra/sysdata/. ref: src/citra_libretro/citra_libretro.cpp:317, src/common/common_paths.h:24

Embedded open-source replacement font in archive_ncch.cpp. ref: src/core/file_sys/archive_ncch.cpp:134-146

firmware_count absent in .info (= 0). Both files are optional.

Files

Section titled “Files”

2 files: 0 required, 2 optional. 1 has an HLE fallback.

In this collection: 2 in repo and 0 missing.

Optional

Section titled “Optional”

aes_keys.txt optional in repo

  • Path: Citra/sysdata/aes_keys.txt
  • Read from: the save directory, not the BIOS directory
  • System: Nintendo 3DS
  • AES encryption keys for decrypting 3DS content
Source

shared_font.bin optional in repo HLE fallback

  • Path: Citra/sysdata/shared_font.bin
  • Read from: the save directory, not the BIOS directory
  • System: Nintendo 3DS
  • system shared font, falls back to embedded open-source replacement
Source

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”
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Maintained by Abdess on GitHub. Report a problem.

Packs from release v2026.10.10, .

MIT for the tooling and metadata. BIOS and firmware files are third-party system software, preserved for personal backup, archival and interoperability.