Citra Canary - RetroBIOS

Type	libretro
Classification	Community forks
Source	https://github.com/libretro/citra
Upstream	https://github.com/citra-emu/citra
Version	Git
Profiled	2026-03-23
Cores	citra_canary
Systems	nintendo-3ds

Technical notes

Canary branch of libretro/citra. Older codebase than master branch (citra core). Missing boot9.bin, sector0x96.bin, seeddb.bin support present in master. Seed crypto unimplemented (src/core/file_sys/ncch_container.cpp:169). Upstream citra-emu/citra taken down March 2024 (Nintendo lawsuit). Mirror: https://github.com/citra-mirror/citra

Data dir: {system_dir}/Citra/sysdata/ ref: src/citra_libretro/citra_libretro.cpp:305-314

Embedded open-source replacements for shared font, country list, bad word list. ref: src/core/file_sys/archive_ncch.cpp:142-147

firmware_count absent in .info (= 0).

2 files | 0 required, 2 optional | 2 in repo, 0 missing | 1 with HLE fallback

aes_keys.txt optional in repo

• Path: Citra/sysdata/aes_keys.txt
• System: nintendo-3ds
• Source: src/core/hw/aes/key.cpp:71-131
• Platforms: bizhawk, emudeck, retrodeck
• AES encryption keys for decrypting 3DS content

shared_font.bin optional in repo HLE fallback

• Path: Citra/sysdata/shared_font.bin
• System: nintendo-3ds
• Source: src/core/hle/service/apt/apt.cpp:168-200
• system shared font, falls back to embedded open-source replacement

Generated on 2026-04-18T08:05:07Z