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3DS Emulator Citra Boots First Commercial Game
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texhnolyze
Banned
Those Mario shots look like coming from a Wii game. Impressive.
Cow Mengde
Banned
I wonder if this emulator's requirements are lower than it is to run Dolphin. My pitiful laptop ran Dolphin well enough.
Wait until they have a well working dynamic recompilation method. Currently they only have a working interpreter, that is bound to be really slow.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Yeah, I had a feeling that was the case. During Dolphin's infancy, I wouldn't dream of running with the laptop I currently have, let alone seeing it run so well.
They made so much improvement in few time
Man, I want to show these to every developer and player in the world! This is what a video game should look like. Devs, please: toss the crazy post-processing, bloom, chromatic abberation, motion blur, dynamic lighting, blah blah blah, cut the polycount and texture res by a ton, and just make this. I would be so happy.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Well, I wouldn't say cut the texture resolution. In fact, great texturing is why some Wii games look so amazing even in 1080p. But yes, I would be more than happy if more games had graphics like this. So clean and beautiful.
jediyoshi
Member
Wild.
I love this and hope for more posts from posters in the future.
Man this looks great. I love the 3D and the extra life it brings, but part of me wishes these games hadn't been on the 3DS. Rather than a fully modern remake they basically look like the most bad assed, ultimate N64 game possible. The models and textures still seem really limited, which holds back that amazing art style and detail. It's especially clear in Hyrule field... with any luck, the modding community will give these games some attention. I can only imagine what a RE4HD level texture and model upgrade could do for this game.
Triforce141
Member
Watch the only "HD" texture packs made for this be the overly realistic and way too detailed, or be borderline Wind Waker in terms of colors and simplicity.
Wow, fuck no.
mntorankusu
Member
There were a few revisions where Kid Icarus Uprising showed signs of booting. It would get as far as creating a save file and showing the loading screen, and reacting to touch on the bottom screen. The current build just crashes, but at least some progress has been made.
In other news, fog is now implemented (at least in some branch or another) so Ocarina of Time is almost perfect, visually. And it's much faster in the latest official build-- Link's house is almost full speed for me now, and since Citra only uses one core, my FX-6300 is not suited to running it at all. High end processors might be able to get full speed now?
In other news, fog is now implemented (at least in some branch or another) so Ocarina of Time is almost perfect, visually. And it's much faster in the latest official build-- Link's house is almost full speed for me now, and since Citra only uses one core, my FX-6300 is not suited to running it at all. High end processors might be able to get full speed now?
I care MUCH more about this than HD 3d Land
That would have been great - along with all they could do to overhaul the graphics and art direction without the burden of hitting 60FPS on the N64, the 64DD additions and inevitable online functionality would have justified a port further.
Does the emulator work faster now? It was pretty slow in native resolution the first time I tried it. My laptop is not very powerful but runs Dolphin properly, I was hoping at the beginning that the performance would be similar to the other emulator.
Anyway, to all those people who are working on this emulator. Great job!! The HD screenshots are amazing!! Nintendo should give you a job: develop the official 3DS emulator to play 3DS games in HD in NX. If they don't do that, they will miss a great opportunity here.
Anyway, to all those people who are working on this emulator. Great job!! The HD screenshots are amazing!! Nintendo should give you a job: develop the official 3DS emulator to play 3DS games in HD in NX. If they don't do that, they will miss a great opportunity here.
Toadthemushroom
Member
Is there any news on Luigi's Mansion 2?
I found a video of the game but it looks like all the shaders and dynamic lighting effects are missing, so the game looks really flat.
I found a video of the game but it looks like all the shaders and dynamic lighting effects are missing, so the game looks really flat.
I haven't paid much attention to emulator progression so the last one I tried using was a DS emulator way back and worked a treat. I wasn't even aware it took this long to get somewhere with 3DS. What is making it so difficult/time consuming to do compared to the older gen system since it doesn't seem to much of a hardware leap? DRM or is it completely different to reverse engineer? Forgive my ignorance 
Resolution
Member
This emulator has made a lot of progress. I can't wait for a stable release to play the fire emblem and bravely default games.
Toadthemushroom
Member
I haven't paid much attention to emulator progression so the last one I tried using was a DS emulator way back and worked a treat. I wasn't even aware it took this long to get somewhere with 3DS. What is making it so difficult/time consuming to do compared to the older gen system since it doesn't seem to much of a hardware leap? DRM or is it completely different to reverse engineer? Forgive my ignorance
I'd like to know this as well, though I'm guessing it might be down to 3DS's fixed function shaders?
I haven't paid much attention to emulator progression so the last one I tried using was a DS emulator way back and worked a treat. I wasn't even aware it took this long to get somewhere with 3DS. What is making it so difficult/time consuming to do compared to the older gen system since it doesn't seem to much of a hardware leap? DRM or is it completely different to reverse engineer? Forgive my ignorance
I don't know if you are serious, but this is the fastest an emulator has ever progressed. Most of it has to with the 3DS having a more modern structure and lots of work already done with NDS emulators and Dolphin. The amount of leaps they make each time is astounding. You have to know making emulators is a time consuming process, you have to reverse engineer undocumented chips, crack encryption, write lots of specific code and making sure it runs fluid. Dolphin took 7 years to get to a playable state.
It's progressing pretty fast, but I would say Cemu is progressing even faster. It hasn't even been out for a full year yet and games like new super mario U are basically fully playable.
I believe Cemu was already being worked on full time before release though. Citra only got up to speed less than two years ago too.
It's ridiculous how well 3DS games scale. I really hope they give their next handheld a proper screen with a good resolution.
Holy shit, latest nightly can run MH4U *somewhat* decently. Tons of artifacts but it's actually reasonably playable for getting some screenshots done in a fair amount of time. 2D textures (menu, bottom screen etc) are not working yet.
That weird "dithering" though. I noticed it on the real console as well, hope there will be a way to get rid of it further down the line.
That weird "dithering" though. I noticed it on the real console as well, hope there will be a way to get rid of it further down the line.
Truth. For the longest time, I considered the Pokémon games on par with PS1/N64 graphic quality. But when you look at the assets in high-quality (nsfw language), it's evident that the screen resolution delivers a MASSIVE hit to IQ.
Granted the games' environment textures are still pretty weak, but the characters--especially the Pokémon--are quite detailed. This is one of the major reasons I'm disappointed to see Gen 7 on 3DS.
Triforce141
Member
Kid Icarus Uprising can now boot:
TheDinoman
Member
yaaaaaaay
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Looking good! Great that Kid Icarus can boot too.
CRO support for Citra has been implemented which means that Pokemon and some other games should now run (or at least run better than they did before).
KojiKnight
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Blackpuppy
Member
The fact that the hardware is fixed function actually makes it EASIER to emulate afaik.
You only have to program a certain set of shaders and never have to worry about any other weird edge cases (ie: the TEV stages in the GC/Wii).
Why is it unofficial? Does it not fully work yet? If so, the finished version might run even better and/or more stable.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
That would be a huge boon to me. I just can't stand playing on handhelds any more. So uncomfortable. Probably just getting old.
Soodanim
Gold Member
Some fantastic looking shots there. The awful IQ really lets the 3DS down. Every time I play a 3DS Pokemon game I think of how good it could look if they had the means. And that's what interests me about 3DS emulation: making the games look better. And controls of course, a proper analog stick instead of the circle pad would be great.
If Nintendo made a version of the 3DS that had nothing extra except a dedicated bit of hardware that added MSAA to everything I'd buy it immediately.
If Nintendo made a version of the 3DS that had nothing extra except a dedicated bit of hardware that added MSAA to everything I'd buy it immediately.
lostsupper
Banned
Quitters never win.
I did everything they asked but the cmd thing does not work =(