Nintendo’s one-of-a-kind 3D handheld returns from the grave with the help of VR.
The Nintendo 3DS handheld blew us yonder when it was released when in 2011 with its worthiness to produce eye-popping stereoscopic 3D effects without the need for glasses. Like many other consoles, the 3DS is misogynist to play as an emulator, but you won’t get to wits the 3D effect by emulating it on a regular screen.
However, with the aid of a VR headset, you can emulate the 3DS in all its stereoscopic 3D glory just by pursuit a few simple steps.
Installing The 3DS Emulator
There are a handful of variegated 3DS emulators out there but we will be using Citra for the purposes of this guide as it’s often regarded as the best. Navigate to the download page here and uncork downloading Citra for your operating system.
Open the downloaded file and you will be prompted to select an installation destination. It will then requite you the nomination of installing Citra Nightly and Citra Canary. Citra Nightly is the reliable tested version whilst Citra Canary is the same as Citra Nightly but includes spare experimental features pensile review.
We recommend installing both versions but using Citra Nightly as it is the increasingly stable version; only switch to Citra Canary whenever you come wideness a ROM (a digital reprinting of a game) that doesn’t work as it should with Citra Nightly. If both Citra Nightly and Citra Canary are unable to run a particular ROM, then chances are it is not uniform with the emulator.
Loading ROMs
Now that Citra is installed, we need to load up some ROMs to play. Click on the “ ” symbol in the main Citra window to add a destination folder for your ROMs. Try to alimony all of your ROMs in a single location so that they can be found and accessed easily.
Where to find ROMs, how to get them working, and the legalities of owning them are vastitude the telescopic of this guide. If you do decide to download ROMs however, make sure to do your homework earlier as malicious ROM sites exist that will package all kinds of nasty surprises withal with your download.
Also, make sure to trammels the Citra Game Compatibility List as some ROMs work largest than others, whilst others simply won’t work at all. Once you have your ROMs, this handy video guide will show you how to get them working with Citra.
3DS Emulator Settings
Now that we have our emulator and ROMs we’re scrutinizingly ready to play, but first, we need to familiarise ourselves with a few settings. Unshut up Citra, go into “Emulation” then “Configure” and a window should unshut up displaying the emulation settings.
The “General” and “System” tabs indulge us to transpiration the emulation speed and CPU clock speed. Waffly these settings can rationalization all sorts of in-game issues so we recommend leaving them vacated unless you know what you are getting into.
The “Graphics” tab has a drop-down list tabbed “Internal Resolution” that will let you retread the resolution to modernize the visuals. Just remember to only increase the resolution as far as your hardware will allow. If the game is lagging it is worth taking the resolution lanugo a notch to see if that improves performance.
In the same “Graphics” tab, go to “Screen Layout” and select “Side by Side”. Enabling this setting will horizontally mirror the Citra exhibit and is essential to experiencing stereoscopic 3D. You can moreover play virtually with the “Depth” setting (the higher the % the greater the depth effect) and the “Screen Layout” to suit your preference.
Finally, there is the “Controls” tab which is fairly self-explanatory and lets you map your controls onto your chosen method of executive the game.
Playing 3DS In Bigscreen Beta
If you don’t have Bigscreen Beta already, it’s misogynist to download and use for free. Head over to the Bigscreen website, select “Download” and segregate your platform. Once installed, connect your headset to the computer and load up Bigscreen Beta. If it’s your first time using Bigscreen, you will be presented with a tutorial that we recommend going through at least once.
Take your headset off and load a ROM using Citra in full-screen mode (select “View” then “Fullscreen”). If you put your headset when on you should see Citra presented on the Bigscreen cinema-type exhibit inside your headset.
Finally, go into the Bigscreen “Home” menu, select “My Room” then “Desktop” and you should see an option tabbed “3D Setting”. Make sure this is set to “SBS” which stands for side by side. Enabling 3D SBS will merge the two mirrored Citra displays into one giving you the 3D effect, and now you’re good to go!
One final tip is to play virtually with the variegated environments that Bigscreen has to offer. For example, I fully nerded out by waffly the environment to woodland so it would finger a bit like I was sitting in Kokiri Forest whilst playing Zelda.
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