r3Ddragon - It's kind of surprising that Nintendo never released a Virtual Console for the Virtual Boy on the 3DS, especially given how small the library of games were for the system and how both utilize 3D effects and cause eyestrain.

The original DS version is actually more polished than the 3DS port, so some of the more hardware pushing games won't work as well as the DS port. Emulates the Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

GameYob - forked from a popular emulator used on the DS.

It also supports using stereoscopic 3D (at the cost of slower performance), which isn't a feature a lot of emulators have. While still in its beta stage, it has shown a lot of improvements thanks to using a dynamic recompiler, with some games running at a playable state.

blargSNES - It works well, but lacks compatibility for games that require enhancement chips (SA1, SuperFX, etc.)ĭaedalusX64 - N64 has always been known to be a hard system to emulate, which is why many were skeptical about how feasible it would be to have an emulator for the system on the 3DS.

It's recommended to use a New 3DS if you want to run games that uses the SuperFX or SA-1 chip properly

Snes9x for 3DS - runs a good majority of games well, even on old 3DS/2DS's.

MasterSystem/MegaDrive/Sega CD/32x : PicoDrive 0.94.

~8fps (Technically works but is unplayably slow) ~5fps (Technically works but is unplayably slow)

~10fps (Technically works but is unplayably slow) Upon exiting RetroArch 3DS, press the Start button. Opposed to normal use of RetroArch, these are all self-contained emulators, albeit sharing the same automatic configuration. The only cores the older 3DS can reliably run at full speed are 2048, Gambatte, QuickNES, NXEngine, and some older Sega games using PicoDrive. Using current exploits, the New 3DS is capable of running most of these cores at or nearly at full speed on most games.

Most accurate but slowest SNES core (~40 FPS),too slow to use even on New 3DS at present Same as Snes9x 2005 but with better sound, at the cost of a few FPS, has more accurate audio, slower ~55-60 FPS on standard games, ~50 FPS on Super FX games

Less compatible than CATSFC, but can actually run many special chip games at full speed Redbook audio hangs when suspending or pausing RetroArch MegaDrive/Genesis/MasterSystem/GameGear/CD/32X/SG-1000 MegaDrive/Genesis/MasterSystem/GameGear/CD/32XĢD games run full speed, 3D games run about 30 FPS or less Most games are too slow to run even on New 3DS, though JoJo runs almost full speedĪcceptable with Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, but some games are slow to use, even on New 3DS, at present

Main core (fbalpha2012_libretro) does not work, but platform-specific cores run at full speedĪ few games are unable to be loaded due to memory constraints.

5.1 MegaDrive/Genesis/MasterSystem/GameGear/32X/Sega CD.

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