Citra, a well-known Nintendo 3DS emulator on Android, shut down earlier this year as did Yuzu, but miraculously several versions of the project managed to escape Nintendo’s attention. Today, Lime3DS and PabloMK are both shutting down, although Nintendo’s legal team does not appear to be involved in the matter.
According to a post by PabloMK7 on As of this writing, the new emulator doesn’t yet have a name, but the developer behind Lime3DS promises to share more information about the new project in the coming weeks.
“I have some exciting news to share about the future of the project.
You may have seen on Twitter that PabloMK7 recently announced the discontinuation of its Citra fork in favor of a new project.
I’m happy to announce that this new project will not be a solo endeavor, as this new Citra fork is a collaborative effort between Lime3DS and the PabloMK7 fork to create a new unified project. Development will no longer be fragmented between these forks, and instead all progress will be made in a single coordinated effort.
As a result, development of Lime3DS will also be paused, and development time after the release of update 2119 will be devoted to setting up this new project.
When released, the new emulator will contain features from both forks, so previous development efforts will not be lost in the transition.
More details on this new project will be shared in the coming weeks, and we hope you’ll be eager to learn more about it.”
Interestingly, the development unit has confirmed that the new project will inherit Lime3DS’s community and Google Play Store page, and current Lime3DS users will be able to switch to the new emulator project seamlessly via an update from the Play Store. It’s not yet clear how save files and other game data transfers will work, although niche emulation communities are generally technically proficient enough to handle migrations of this nature. So far, the community seems pretty excited about a new emulator from the developer duo, given that the previous two projects were popular in the emulation community.
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