Help 3DS emulation

[chaosmos]

There are a handful of 3DS games I want to play. I was able to get MH4U and SMT: Strange Journey Redux working through Retroarch using a Citra 2018 core. When I tried both SMT:IV games, I got a black screen briefly and then Retroarch closes. I am curious in how to troubleshoot this. If it helps, when I select the previous two games, it allows me to choose one of the 3DS cores. When I select either of the latter two, I don't get that option, just black screen and everything closing. Thanks in advance for any helpful input.

 

[Clippy]

Try standalone Citra or one of its forks. 2018 was seven years ago.

 

[iceball]

Try switching the video driver from openGL to vulkan on both cores, maybe it will help.

 

[HextarVigar]

Never use OpenGL if you have another option. It works pretty much perfectly using Vulcan.

 

[Glaciation]

Out of all the emulators I use, citra is the most problematic. It runs pretty well on the steamdeck but with a bit of a lag when loading new areas. It catches up almost immediately, though. Could totally see a remastered SMT4/A and Strange Journey getting a steam release at some point.

On topic: check your bios and firmware to make sure they are compatible. If it's not booting at all, I'd bet it has to do with that.

 

[Graw]

Retroarch cores for anything after 16-bit systems kind of suck and it's usually better to use standalone emulators for them.

 

[Patches]

There are a handful of 3DS games I want to play. I was able to get MH4U and SMT: Strange Journey Redux working through Retroarch using a Citra 2018 core. When I tried both SMT:IV games, I got a black screen briefly and then Retroarch closes. I am curious in how to troubleshoot this. If it helps, when I select the previous two games, it allows me to choose one of the 3DS cores. When I select either of the latter two, I don't get that option, just black screen and everything closing. Thanks in advance for any helpful input.

I have a similar issue when using my dell 9020 aio desktop on actual citra not retroarch. My issue is because I can not upgrade my GPU and the system does not support vulkan only opengl. For the games that my dell cannot play I can play just fine on my android with citra mmj (weihouya put in the work for android users for citra while the official citra team left us for dead while polishing N companies' balls) or my 2ds.

 

[RageBurner]

I would suggest trying Citra standalone, preferably a recent fork as others have said.

 

[TotzOnGaming]

I still have Citra, both the last release and the nightly. After it got taken down though. I have yet to try to newer forks.