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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 v1.1 (3DS Game)

Puzzle3DS​ is a simple memory game for the 3DS by trainboy2019. All you have to do is memorize the pattern shown on the bottom, then when the indicator in the top left is green, repeat the pattern. Read more about Puzzle3DS​ v2.0 (3DS Game)

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, Kirby's Dreamland, Kirby Super Star) but it runs slowly. It generally supports higher 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 games. It also runs on your New 3DS, and performs much faster! Use your New 3DS if you want to play SuperFX and SA-1 games! Read more about SNES9x 3DS v1.30 (SNES emu for 3DS)

Norix's NES/Famicom emulator VirtuaNES has been ported to the Nintendo 3DS by bubble2k16. Read more about VirtuaNES 3DS v1.02 (NES emu for 3DS)

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 v0.94b (Multiple emus for 3DS)

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 v1.02 (PCE emu for 3DS)

Amy Zing and the Amazing Mazes is little maze solving game by Ant512. The game is loosely based on the snail maze built into some revisions of the Sega Master System BIOS but it isn’t a remake. Like the snail maze, the objective is to guide the red square through the maze from the starting point to the finishing point. Read more about Amy Zing and the Amazing Mazes v2017.11.28 (3DS Game)

Puzzle3DS​ is a simple memory game for the 3DS by trainboy2019. All you have to do is memorize the pattern shown on the bottom, then when the indicator in the top left is green, repeat the pattern. Read more about Puzzle3DS​ v1.0 (3DS Game)

FBI is an open source file and title manager by Steveice10 for the Nintendo 3DS. Discussion via GBAtemp. Read more about FBI v2.5.0 (3DS Application)

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 v1.6.0 (3DS Application)