1. How To Get Blargsnes 3ds Ds
2. How To Get Blargsnes 3ds Emulator
3. How To Get Blargsnes 3ds Rom
4. How To Get Blargsnes 3ds Controller

Because of the homebrewing scene the 3DS has had, you can install a variety of emulators. Currently, the New 3DS is capable of running much faster than the older models, making it a much more ideal platform for emulation, but despite this there are still some emulators that have issues regardless. For more information on how to homebrew your 3DS, visit 3ds.hacks.guide.

• 1Multi-System
• 2Consoles
• 3Handhelds
• 4Others

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Snes9x for 3DS is a high-compatibility SNES emulator for your Old 3DS / 2DS. It runs many games at full speed (60 fps). It supports games that use CX4 chip (Megaman X2/X3), and the SDD-1 chip (Star Ocean, Super Street Fighter 2 Alpha). It can also play games that use the SuperFX chip (Yoshi's Island, etc), and the SA-1 chip (Super Mario RPG.

Multi-System[edit]

RetroArch[edit]

There are preliminary 3DS ports of the following cores: stable 3DS ports

• 2048
• CATSFC Plus (has more accurate audio, slower)
• FinalBurn Alpha CPS1
• FinalBurn Alpha CPS2
• FinalBurn Alpha CPS3 (most games are too slow to run even on New 3DS, though JoJo runs almost full speed)
• FinalBurn Alpha Neo Geo (A few games are unable to be loaded due to memory constraints)
• FCEUmm
• gpSP (dynarec only works by installing the CIA)
• Mednafen NGP
• Mednafen PCE Fast
• Mednafen VB
• Mednafen WonderSwan
• mGBA (acceptable with Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, but some games are slow to use, even on New 3DS, at present)
• NXEngine
• PCSX-ReARMed (see below)
• PicoDrive (32X emulation does not work in the .3dsx format, at least.)
• PocketSNES (less compatible than CATSFC, but can actually run many special chip games at full speed)
• Snes9x-Next (too slow to use even on New 3DS at present)

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

Unofficial Builds[edit]

There are unofficial ports which add new cores with emulators that do not have a retroarch by default

• Atari800
• GW
• VirtualJaguar

Consoles[edit]

NES[edit]

• 3DNESno longer in development

SNES[edit]

• Snes9x for 3DS - runs a good majority of games well, even on old 3DS/2DS's. It's recommended to use a New 3DS if you want to run games that uses the SuperFX or SA-1 chip properly.
• blargSNES - It works well, but lacks compatibility for games with certain chips (i.e. the SuperFX chip).

Nintendo 64[edit]

• DaedalusX64 - 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. 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. It also supports using stereoscopic 3D (at the cost of slower performance), which isn't a feature a lot of emulators have.

Playstation[edit]

• PCSX-ReARMed (RetroArch) - Thanks to the work of many developers, it is now possible to have full speed 60 FPS emulation for a majority of games and support for .CHD compression formats. Generally, 2D games will perform better than 3D, however you can get some better performance by tweaking the settings if necessary. The nightly builds have seen major improvements since the initial release and can even play some of the more demanding games at full speed (See here for some tips), so it's better to use that until the next stable release. NOTE: This emulator is mainly targeted for the New 3DS so don't expect the o3DS to run well if at all.

Genesis/32X/Sega CD[edit]

• PicoDrive for 3DS - 32X and Sega CD are playable on the original 3DS, but works better on New 3DS. Sega CD requires BIOS in order to play, they must be named:

'bios_CD_U.bin', 'bios_CD_J.bin', and 'bios_CD_E.bin' based on the respective regions. BIOS need to be in the /3ds/picodrive_3ds/bios folder.

PC Engine[edit]

Handhelds[edit]

Game Boy[edit]

• GameYob: forked from a popular emulator used on the DS. Emulates the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. 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.

Virtual Boy[edit]

• 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 utilizes 3D effects and causes eyestrain. What makes this emulator stand out is the fact that it's able to display the graphics in 3D the way it was intended, something that is almost impossible to do on other platforms, unfortunately compatibility is still low and requires a New 3DS to run. Development has since halted.

Game Boy Advance[edit]

The 3DS does include native firmware for a GBA mode which was mainly used to run ambassador releases instead of having to develop an emulator for them. Because it's technically running a 'virtual' GBA, it can't provide features that are normally available on other emulators, such as savestates, screen filtering, or sleep mode, however it does have high compatibility with the exception of cartridges with special hardware. If you're using an old 3DS/2DS, this is the best option to play GBA games. There are two ways to take advantage of this firmware:

• New Super Ultimate Injector - There are other programs that can do injections, but this one is nice as it can do other Virtual Console injections and some forwarders for emulators. The only problem is each ROM must be injected and installed individually, including the save files, which makes the number of titles that can be installed restricted to the max the 3DS title limit (300 titles, not including pre-installed system titles).
• open_agb_firm(Name not finalized) - A custom FIRM payload that takes advantage of the built-in GBA firmware, it's still in early development but has an alpha build available. The major advantage of this compared to VC injection is it can load the ROM through the SD card instead of having to convert and install them, but needs to be launched on boot instead of being able to use the 3DS HOME Menu (there's ways to make a forwarder for in on the HOME menu, but requires additional setup to get it to work). One major issue is there's a chance that it may not detect the correct save format or will corrupt the existing save file so make sure to backup your saves beforehand (they are currently trying fix it by having a better database for save detection, if you're interested you can help).
  • To install, simply put the .firm file in the /luma/payloads/ folder and hold START to load up the chainloader to launch it. There's no way of exiting out once the program starts, so you will need to turn it off and redo the step to load it if you wanted to change games.

On the other hand, there are also some homebrew GBA emulators available for 3DS:

• mGBA(Latest Nightly) - A port of the popular GBA emulator by the same developer, only a handful of GBA games suffer from slowdowns but are still playable. Also works great for GB(C) games and even supports the Gameboy Camera.
• GBARunner2 - a GBA hypervisor made for the DS(i), can only be ran through TWiLight Menu++ and is included by default with the program (see below). Compatiblity can be a hit-or-miss, but it's still in active development with plans to include interesting features such as gyro control emulation and local wireless multiplayer in the future.
• CitrAGB - (based on gpSP)

Neo Geo Pocket[edit]

Nintendo DS[edit]

• TWiLight Menu++ - Not technically an 'emulator', rather it's a frontend for a separate program, nds-bootstrap, which allows for an NDS ROM to be loaded from an SD card. The program is originally designed for the DSi, however it's able to work on the 3DS by utilizing the virtual DSi (aka the TWL_FIRM or 'DS Mode') that the 3DS has for backwards-compatibility. Compatibility isn't the same as using a flashcart, however it's still pretty high with only a few games having issues or triggering anti-piracy protections (newer versions now come with AP patches for most games and will patch them if needed at launch). It also comes pre-bundled with a variety of emulators used on the DS and a work-in-progress GBA hypervisor, GBARunner2, that works to some degree.

• DeSmuME - an experimental port of DeSmuME that has since been abandoned, it wasn't very compatible.

DSiWare[edit]

Because the firmware that the 3DS uses for backwards-compatibility is actually the same as the DSi, it's possible to inject DSiWare as an installable .cia file. There's two ways to do this:

• GodMode9 - Version 1.8.0 and above has a script that can convert .nds to .cia, 3ds.hacks.guide has more information on how to update to the latest version if needed.
• DSiWare Conversion Script - This script can be used to convert .bin files from your DSi's SD card to .nds which can then be used to convert into .cia.

These scripts will ONLY work for DSiWare, NOT NDS GAMES.

TWiLight Menu++ has support for two DSiWare as of v15.1.1 with a special preview of nds-bootstrap, Pop Island and Pop Island: Paperfield. These can also run on the DS.

Others[edit]

Amiibo[edit]

• Wumiibo - Emulates Amiibo functionality on the 3DS without needing an NFC reader or using tags. You can even use your own Amiibo data, after it's been decrypted, or a generic AmiiboID which are freely available and explains how to get them on the project page.

CHIP-8[edit]

Super Mario 64[edit]

• SM64 3DS Port - Thanks to the decompilation project, you can now enjoy SM64 on the 3DS with *analog* support and native rendering (compared to the official DS port). Works pretty much at full speed on the New 3DS, the original model apparently has some slow downs but still playable. You can either build it yourself, or try finding pre-compiled build online (there are multiple versions, you can find some here but it's no longer up-to-date).

Virtual Console Injection[edit]

Some have tried injecting alternate ROMs in the available Virtual Console releases (MD, GG, NES, GBA Ambassador, GBC, Japanese emulated SFC compilations) with varying degrees of success. The emulators used for Virtual Console are not as accurate as other emulators so compatibility isn't perfect (the only exception is GBA since it runs it natively, not emulation), Sega systems in particular have high compatibility however.
There's an easy tool that will convert and inject any supported ROM file as its associated VC application called New Super Ultimate Injector. It's an all in one tool and can even remotely install the injection provided your 3DS is connected to the same network. It's currently in beta, but it's still really useful.

blargSnes is a Super Nintendo emulator for 3DS.

• 1Usage
• 2Features
• 3Changelog

Usage

Installation

If you need help to install this homebrew on your console, read how to launch 3DS homebrew.

On the 3DS's SD card (not the Gateway MicroSD), create a folder named 'snes' and put your SNES ROMs in there.

In the same folder, you can also place savegames. They must have the same name as their corresponding ROM, and have a .srm extension.

With that done, start blargSnes, and you see a ROM selection menu. Select your ROM and press A (or B). See what happens.

Compatibility list

Controls

• Pause: Touch screen
• Resume pause: Touch screen or A

While in pause:

• Change game: Select
• Settings: Start
• Screenshot: L+R (saved to your SD card in .bmp format).
• Exit: Select, then press the [X] on the touch screen.

Settings

• Hardware renderer: this enables the hardware-accelerated renderer. It is faster than the software renderer but also less accurate in some cases.
• Scaling: provides some scaling modes for the video output.

Customize

Custom borders

You can change the border picture on the top screen by placing a 400x240px 24bit bitmaps picture named blargSnesBorder.bmp on the root of your 3DS SD card.

blargSNES custom border repository and layout example.

Custom border submission thread at GBAtemp.

Features

Supported features

• Software and hardware renderers
• PPU modes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7
• BGs with 8x8 and 16x16 tiles, sprites
• color math (blending), brightness, windows
• DMA (with faster paths for VRAM/CGRAM/OAM), HDMA
• SPC700
• Sound (when possible)
• SRAM with auto-saving
• Joypad for player 1 (circle pad also works)
• Catgirls

DUE TO LIMITATIONS, YOU WILL NOT GET SOUND WHEN USING EITHER THE GATEWAY VERSION (blargSnes.3ds) OR WHEN USING THE HOMEBREW LAUNCHER ON A NEW 3DS.

Also note that sleep mode (closing your 3DS) and the Home button don't work when using The Homebrew Launcher/Ninjhax homebrew method.

Future features

• Sound using the 3DS DSP
• Expansion chips. Star Fox in 3D, anyone?
• Maybe further hardware acceleration in the PPU department

Changelog

v1.3

Release date 2015-01-18 Download

• Usage of geometry shaders and other speedups to rendering
• Hardware renderer: offset-per-tile, hi-res modes, and more fixes by DiscostewSM
• Much better sound quality, support for noise, echo and pitch modulation (thanks DiscostewSM again)
• Two added scaling modes: 4:3 and cropped 4:3
• Better open-bus emulation, and ability to execute code in open-bus regions (fixes Home Alone)
• Overall more accurate timings, IRQ fixes, etc
• ROM selector is no longer locked to the /snes folder
• The usual forgotten novelties, surprise

v1.2

Release date 2014-11-30 Download

How To Get Blargsnes 3ds Ds

• Brand new hardware-accelerated renderer
• Scaling support
• Exit button (mainly for use with the Homebrew Launcher)
• Emulation fixes (namely, huge 'next EXP' in Earthbound is fixed)
• Support for the 256x239 mode
• Proper PAL support (actually uses PAL timings)
• Tries to prevent GPU freezes
• Synchronous SPC700 (fixes issues but also causes a little slowdown)
• As usual, more crap I forgot about. Hah.

v1.1.9

Unofficial release.

v1.1

How To Get Blargsnes 3ds Emulator

Release date 2014-10-12 Download

• No more garbled/blank screens or freezes when pressing Home or closing/reopening the 3DS or playing with the 3D slider
• Ability to run a new game without restarting blargSnes
• Screenshot function
• Support for external borders
• Support for backgrounds with 16x16 tiles. Super Bomberman games are finally playable.
• Brightness, color math (blending) and windows added. Many games look nicer this way.
• Several PPU speedups
• Speedhacking disabled (it was error-prone, not that efficient, and broke HDMA)
• Replaced forced 1/2 frameskip with automatic frameskipper (isn't perfect, though)
• More stable display (although tearing still occurs when frameskipping), VSync
• More things I forgot about. Surprise!

How To Get Blargsnes 3ds Rom

v1.0

• initial release Download

Credits

• 3dbrew and all the people who made 3DS homebrew possible
• anyone who helped make lolSnes work
• Bond697 and Normmatt for how to use the 3DS syscore
• smealum for ctrulib and for paving the way to the PICA200
• if you feel I forgot your name here, let me know

How To Get Blargsnes 3ds Controller

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See discussion thread.