How to Install Citra Emulator on Windows PC

Install Citra Emulator

In this article, we will have a look at how to install Citra Emulator on Windows PC. Here I will be talking about how to run Nintendo 3ds games on our computer. Citra emulator is a pretty new application in the world of emulation. These days, we can play any game with this app player that is made for one specific console on our smartphone. So, in the steps below we will see you how to use the Citra emulator on your Computer.

Citra player is an emulator but it will not provide any license for 3ds games to run on it. So, we can manually have to download game ROMs and then import them inside the Citra.

What is Citra Emulator?

Citra Emulator is a publicly available Nintendo 3ds emulator which is written in C++. This is building actively maintained for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. This game player subset of 3DS hardware is usually useful for running and also helpful for debugging applications. The good thing about this app player is that can run nearly all homebrew games and also some commercial games.

Download Citra Emulator for Windows

You can get the emulator from Citra’s official website. The best thing about this website is that it will automatically detect your operating system version. So, you don’t need to excavate into a download link that matches your OS version.
When you have done downloading, and while installing, you will meet two build versions. One named Canary build, and the second is Nightly. Primarily, the Nightly version is the official stable release of the Citra emulator.

Download Citra Emulator for Windows

If you want to download the Citra for Mac x64 or Linux x64, then just click other platforms.

Download Citra other platforms

How to Install Citra Emulator

Launch your download folder, and then double click on the Citra-setup-windows.exe file to install Citra Emulator.

Windows explorer Citra setup file

Security warning click run.

Open file security warnings

Citra setup, click settings

Welcome to Citra setup wizard

Citra Network settings

Citra emulator network settings

Repositories settings.

Citra repositories settings

Install Citra emulator, click next

Welcome to Citra setup wizard

Choose the installation folder for the Citra app player and then click next.

Installation folder Citra Emulator

As I mentioned above, the Citra emulator has two builds.
I am selecting the Citra Nightly version, click next.

Select components Citra

Accept Citra license agreement and then click Next.

License agreement Citra

Citra emulator start menu shortcut options, click next.

Start menu shortcuts Citra

Citra updater setup, now you are ready to install Citra emulator, click install.

Ready to install Citra

Installing Citra

Installing Citra emulator

Completing the Citra wizard, click finish.

Completing the Citra wizard

Telemetry

Citra anonymous data is collected

How to Configure Citra Emulator Controller

How to Set Up Citra Emulator, click on the Emulation tab and then configure.

Citra Nightly Emulator

Configuring the Citra controller using the Citra emulator is very simple.

Citra configuration controls

Citra Configuration graphics settings.

Citra player configuration graphics

To change the internal resolution, simply hold the down arrow, and it must look like this.

Citra Emulator configuration graphics

The Citra app player supports up to x10 internal resolution. Please make sure that your graphics card is capable of making it possible.

Citra configuration graphics

Citra Nightly Emulator

Citra Emulator double click

How to upgrade Citra Emulator

To update the Citra emulator, select the help tab and then click on check for update.

Citra emulator check for update

No update has been found, already been updated.

Citra night no update found

Related: How To Uninstall Citra Emulator Completely.

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