Nintendo 3DS emulation may have just taken a huge step toward legality

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• The developers behind the upcoming Azahar 3DS emulator have laid out their argument for legality in a blog post.
• This includes several changes to the Citra formula to stay on Nintendo’s good side.
• The blog post also calls for users to act responsibly to keep game preservation efforts alive.

The upcoming Azahar 3DS emulator might not have a working app yet, but the developers have already laid the legal groundwork for their efforts in a new blog post. Written by PabloMK7 (creator of one of the most popular Citra forks), it outlines several changes going forward to stay on the right side of the law.

The biggest change is that the new 3DS emulator will not support encrypted ROMs. The blog post points out that circumventing Nintendo’s technological protection measures was one of the main things Nintendo used against Yuzu developer TropicHaze earlier this year. Other Nintendo 3DS emulators can play both encrypted and decrypted ROMs, mostly as a matter of convenience.




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