Category: Nintendo 3DS

Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is a text adventure game, developed originally in 1976, by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe. The game was expanded upon in 1977, with help from Don Woods, and other programmers created variations on the game and ports to other systems in the following years. [Text from Wikipedia] Read more about Colossal Cave Adventure v1.0 (3DS Game)

DS Recovery Tool by Joel16 is a tool for backing up, restoring and wiping 3DS data. It's somewhat similar to a recovery menu, that assists the user in backing up and restore sensitive and unique data. Read more about DS Recovery Tool v1.4 (3DS Application)

Locomalito's game L'Abbaye des Morts has been ported to the Nintendo 3DS by JeffRuLz! It's written in C using the libctru and citro3d libraries. The gameplay is directly inspired by Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. This port seems to run fullspeed! Read more about L’Abbaye des Morts v2.0.1 (3DS Game Port)

Minicraft3DS is a Nintendo 3DS homebrew port of Notch's Ludum Dare game "Minicraft". The goal of the game is to kill the only other sentient being in the world, making sure you'll be alone forever. Read more about Minicraft3DS v1.6.2 (3DS Game)

PicoDrive for 3DS is a port of notaz's PicoDrive emulator by bubble2k16 to the old 3DS / 2DS. Although PicoDrive is already highly optimized for ARM processors, if ported as is, it still doesn't run full speed for all Mega Drive games on the old 3DS / 2DS, as it's evident in the RetroArch's version. So this port heavily relies on the 3DS's 2nd core to emulate the FM synthesized music for the YM2612 FM chip to achieve 60 FPS. But the 2nd core on the old 3DS is unfortunately not fast enough to generate the FM synthesized music at a full 44100Hz, so sounds are generated at 30000Hz on an Old 3DS. It sounds ok for many games, except for those that use high-pitched notes or sound samples. The screen rendering is done completely using the original PicoDrive's ARM processor-optimized renderer. Read more about PicoDrive for 3DS v0.93 (Multiple emus for 3DS)

SDLLopan is a classic remake of Linux Lopan (a Mahjong clone) by Dave Ashley. nop90 invested couple of days to get this ported to the Nintendo 3DS. Like other Mahjongg games, you try to remove all the pieces. To remove pieces you must select a pair of pieces with the same drawing. Read more about SDLLopan 3DS v1.0 (3DS Game Port)

GodMode9 Explorer by d0k3 is a full access file browser for the Nintendo 3DS console. It gives you access to your SD card, to the FAT partitions inside your SysNAND and EmuNAND and to basically anything else. Among other functionality you can copy, delete, rename files and create folders. You can find the source here. Read more about GodMode9 Explorer v1.5.1 (3DS Application)

bubble2k16 updated Exophase's TemperPCE for the Nintendo 3DS. It's a TurboGrafx / PC-Engine emulator to the old 3DS and old 2DS. This port heavily relies on the 3DS's 3D GPU hardware to achieve 60 FPS (or close to 60 with frame skips). Read more about TemperPCE v1.01 (PCE emu for 3DS)

FBI is an open source file and title manager by Steveice10 for the Nintendo 3DS. Discussion via GBAtemp. Read more about FBI v2.4.14 (3DS Application)

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) but they run with plenty of frame skips. It has generally much high compatibility than existing SNES emulators on the old 3DS because it uses Snes9x 1.43 as a base, and is a good alternative if your existing emulators cannot play all the games. Read more about SNES9x 3DS v1.21 (SNES emu for 3DS)