Citra is a Nintendo 3DS emulator for Mac that can run commercial games at 100% of their speed, in addition to adding a series of characteristics to improve their visuals above and beyond the modest resolution of Nintendo handheld consoles.
The emulator can display both screens in real time, though it's also possible to show only one in fullscreen and assign a button to alternate between the two. As far as the controls go, you can use either the keyboard or an external gamepad. In terms of the touch controls for the lower screen, you can use the mouse directly to click wherever you want.
Citra supports a ton of games from the Nintendo catalog in both 2D and 3D, though the emulator particularly shines with the 3D titles, allowing for a more intense resolution that completely transforms some games, making it seem like they're not even from a handheld device. Pokémon Sun and Moon and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, for example, look amazing.
Citra is possibly the best and most advanced Nintendo 3DS emulator you can find. It's an open source project created by volunteers that lets you enjoy your handheld games on a desktop computer.
The emulator can display both screens in real time, though it's also possible to show only one in fullscreen and assign a button to alternate between the two. As far as the controls go, you can use either the keyboard or an external gamepad. In terms of the touch controls for the lower screen, you can use the mouse directly to click wherever you want.
Citra supports a ton of games from the Nintendo catalog in both 2D and 3D, though the emulator particularly shines with the 3D titles, allowing for a more intense resolution that completely transforms some games, making it seem like they're not even from a handheld device. Pokémon Sun and Moon and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, for example, look amazing.
Citra is possibly the best and most advanced Nintendo 3DS emulator you can find. It's an open source project created by volunteers that lets you enjoy your handheld games on a desktop computer.
Snes9x For Mac Sierra 10.12
So here we list the Best SNES Emulator for Mac. Top 3 Free SNES Emulators for Mac OS X – SNES Emulator # 1 -BSNES. BSNES Emulator for Mac OS X. BSNES comes from Bannister which makes a lot of retro console emulators. BSNES is very light-weight and runs even on newer Mac OS X systems such as El Capitan, Sierra, Yosemite too. File Name: snes9x-1.53-macosx-113.dmg.gz File Size: 2.59 MB System: Super Nintendo Version: 1.53 Downloads: 467,389 Not what you are looking for? Check out our Mac emulator section!
Citra: The best Nintendo 3DS emulator for PC The world of emulation never stops moving. While a few days ago we gave you a review of the impressive Cemu emulator for Wii U, today it's the turn of Citra, a fully functional emulator of Nintendo 3DS for Windows and Mac that can run games at 100% and scale the 3D graphics to display much higher resolutions that the console originals.
Freeware
Windows/macOS/Android
3.1 MB
43,720
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the most powerful 16-bit consoles. The SNES used an extremely powerful graphics coprocessor able of generating real-time effects like scaling and transparency.
This release of SNES9X offers amazing emulation quality and performance, when compared to any other SNES emulator available today. This version supports TV Mode, mouse input, and GZ-compressed ROMs.
What's New:
Now available for Android
Emulator Zone Snes9x
- Android version updated to 1.5.49
- Add option to automatically increase audio buffer size if needed such as when routing audio over Bluetooth
- Fix posiilbe crash in the new audio code
- Fix max ROM size check
General changelog:
- Added DSP1 and SuperFX savestate support. (nitsuja)
- Added screen state GFX to save states. (optional) (nitsuja)
- Fixed desync when loading inconsistent state in playback. (nitsuja)
- When playback reaches a movie's end, recording continues instead of the movie suddenly closing. (after recording) (nitsuja)
- can now record resets and mouse/superscope/justifier(s) (nitsuja)
- Added same-line-comment support for config files. (nitsuja)
- input display for all controllers (including peripherals) (nitsuja)
- Win32: Now uses .cfg file instead of Windows registry. (nitsuja)
- Win32: open ROM dialog bugfixes and speedup and facelift (nitsuja)
- Win32: option to use standard file open dialog for ROMs (nitsuja)
- Win32: maintain aspect ratio and bilinear filter stretch (nitsuja)
- Win32: optional removal of the dreaded 'black bar' (nitsuja)
- Win32: Added EPX,EPX2,EPX3,HQ2X,HQ3X,TV3X,DM3X filters. (nitsuja)
- Win32: Added hires support for Interlace and TV Mode. (nitsuja)
- Win32: text removed from .avi output (optional) (nitsuja)
- Win32: better directory management, customizeable (nitsuja)
- Win32: Screenshot support is back. (nitsuja)
- Win32: Netplay is back (but still not very good). (nitsuja)
- Win32: Made OpenGL Bi-linear an advanced .cfg option. (nitsuja)
- Win32: cheat search improvements (address, watch, SuperFX)(nitsuja)
- Win32: Added non-modal ('active') cheat search option. (nitsuja)
- Win32: new hotkey-config dialog and configurable hotkeys (nitsuja)
- Win32: Fixed joystick config in input dialog. (nitsuja)
- Win32: Fixed hires and extended height .avi output. (nitsuja)
- Win32: various small GUI improvements (nitsuja)
- Win32: Netplay fixes. (nitsuja)
- 'Fake Mute' desync workaround option for movies, until all ports have deterministic sound. (Bisqwit, nitsuja)
- Fix for save state blocks > 999999 bytes. (Bisqwit)
- C4 games now save C4 data in save states. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: Framework for high-speed seeking. Specify a frame number in a movie, and the emulator will run at maximum speed to that frame. Untested. (DeHackEd)
- X11: Support for window exposure. When a window is damaged due to overlay, being iconified, etc. it will be repainted correctly. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: parameter: -autodemo loads a movie for playback on startup. Only the x11 code handles this right now. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: parameter: -oldturbo, the turbo button renders all frames when fast-forwarding. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: parameter: -upanddown, override U+D and L+R protection. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: parameter: -mute, currently linux only, blocks out audio output from your speakers while still emulating sound. Not fully tested. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: parameter: -maxframes during movie playback, snes9x will exit when the target is hit. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: parameter: -keypress shows to stderr and on-screen the currently pressed buttons on joypad 1. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: Stream dumping (NOT COMPLETE). With -dumpstreams, raw video and raw audio are dumped to videostream%d.dat and audiostream%d.dat, where %d increments on each CPU reset, starting at zero. (DeHackEd)
- Unix: Non-blocking sound on Linux. It makes seeking nicer.(DeHackEd)
- Unix: Configurable sound device. (pierredavidbelanger)
- configure.in now requires a sufficiently new version of autoconf.(anomie)
- Fixed slow versions of branch opcodes. (anomie)
- Fixed the mosaic offset bug. (anomie)
- No sorting by priority in C4 command 00 00. MegaMan X2 can go behind the legs of the intro stage boss. (anomie)
- New RTO discovery, fixes Super Conflict: The Mideast title screen. (anomie, byuu)
- A 1->0 transition on $2100.7 causes OAM Address Reset. (anomie, byuu)
- The final HDMA Indirect Address load is only weird on the last channel of the scanline.
Touge Densetsu Saisoku Battle problem solved. (anomie, byuu) - Fixed BGnVOFS bug. Only HOFS needs ~&7 update. (byuu)
- Fixed superfluous VIRQ triggers. (zones)
- Fixed missing IRQ trigger just after the previous one. (zones)
- Fixed missing IRQ while writing to $4200. (zones)
- Fixed IRQ timing after WRAM refresh. (zones)
- Fixed NMA timing after DMA transfer. (zones)
- Fixed superfluous auto-joypad-reading. (zones)
- Fixed missing WRAM refresh during DMA transfer. (zones)
- Fixed DMA so that HDMA and any HC triggered events can run during DMA transfer. (zones)
- Roughly fixed the case that HDMA and DMA use the same channel at the same time. HDMA kills DMA. Thanks byuu. (zones)
- Changed initial DMA registers values. (zones)
- Slightly modified APU execute timings. (zones)
- Fixed APU I/O registers to get/set the proper value. (zones)
- Blocked invalid VRAM writings, though you can turn off this option due to Snes9x's inaccurate timings. (zones)
- Omitted SPCTOOL, no one uses it. (zones)
- Added Sufami Turbo support. (zones)
- Added Same Game add-on cart support. (zones)
- Fixed HiROM SRAM and DSP1-4 memory maps a little. (zones)
- Improved mirroring. (Nach, grinvader, byuu)
- CRC32 on BS dumps now follows uCONSRT standard. (Nach)
- BS dumps now always run in NTSC mode. (Nach)
- Unknown regions (generally betas) default to NTSC. (Nach)
- Now support NSRT headers for setting up controllers. (Nach, nitsuja)
- Unix: Fixed command line help output. (Nach)
- Unix: Sound now defaults to 32KHz, Stereo, Interpolation so Snes9x finally sounds like a real SNES by default. (Nach)
- Win32: Saner defaults for movie record. (Nach)
- Unix: Fixed crashing with mouse or super scope. (Nach)
- Removed some weird code which was crashing Korean League and its varients. Win32: Can now compile with MinGW. (Jonas Quinn, Nach)
- Win32: Can now cross compile Snes9xw. (Nach)
- Unix: SSnes9x compiles again. (Nach)
- Win32: ZSNES C4 and SuperFX compiles once again. (Jonas Quinn)
- Unix: Netplay Fixes. (Nach)
- Unix: Netplay Improvements
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