If you just want to temporarily host a room for you and your friends to play, the easiest way is to host a room from the UI ( Multiplayer > Host Room). You can just pick a room from our Public Room Browser, where plenty of public rooms hosted by us and the community are already available for use. If you just want to play with your friends, you do not need to create your own room. You can learn more about Citra’s multiplayer features in this article. Each user is using their instance of Citra as a unique emulated 3DS that is communicating with everyone else through a multiplayer room, a server that can be hosted by anyone for connected clients to exchange data with each other. Unlike single console netplay used in most emulators, users won’t have to worry about desyncs, synchronizing saves, or any other issues typical of netplay. While on a real 3DS you’d be limited to the people in your immediate vicinity, Citra boasts a complex server/client infrastructure that forwards a game’s wireless communication across the internet. This is why you can convert a CIA to a NCSD and vice-versa, they both just hold NCCHs.Citra’s multiplayer feature has the ability to emulate local wireless multiplayer over the Internet. CIAs hold NCCH files, which can be installed to the 3DS NAND or SD card.

A CIA is a packaging format used by Nintendo. Does Citra need CIA or 3DS?Ĭia is another important file format that is not supported by Citra. Once it’s done installing, you should be able to play it. Navigate to the CIA file you want to install. On the menu bar, choose File > Install CIA. Does Citra use CIA?Ĭurrently, Citra is able to install (decrypted) CIAs easily. Is CIA better than 3DS?ģDS files are nice if you don’t want to clutter your home menu with games that you’re just trying out or don’t plan on playing very much, or if you don’t feel like waiting for a CIA to install which can take a long time for larger games. You only risk getting a virus by installing third party builds with unpublished source code, or by downloading ROMs from shady sites (something not condoned by this sub). Is Citra emulator safe?Ĭitra is open-source, anyone can inspect the code themselves to verify it isn’t a virus. For citra to include ds games, it means they would have to recode an entire ds emulator to get it to work. The 3ds literally includes the old ds hardware inside in order to play ds games (this is a simplified version of the whole picture).

And your middle end Android device will not be able to play them once 3DS games are emulatable.

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