Nintendo 3DS

The Nintendo 3DS is a handheld console created by Nintendo in 2011.

As the successor to the Nintendo DS, the console features two screens, with the bottom having touch controls. The console boasts a better set of specifications to its predecessor, but also allows for 3D vision without glasses on the top screen.

Ripping Tools

3DS Tools

(todo: sort some of these to individual game pages, or something, maybe)

• RAM Dumping
• CTR sddecrypt
• 3DS Homemenu ExtdataTool
• Extdata dump
• FCRamDump
• 3DS Ram Dumper
• Gateway 3DS ROM Dumper (makes bad dumps?)
• Various custom firmware that allow for game RAM modification and lossless screenshot taking

PC/3DS Tools

• 3DS Multi Decryptor

PC Tools

• 3DS Icon Decrypter
• 3DS To CIA Converter
• bch2obj
• BCWAV to BCSTM
• cgfx2obj
• cfgxViewer
• ctpktool
• Debanner
• Every File Explorer
• fmt_cgfx
• Level5 3DS Archive tool
• lsdt
• N3DS Cmb Viewer
• Ohana3DS Rebirth (Better for ripping than OhanaXY)
• OhanaXY
• SmashPACK
• texturipper
• xfsa
• 3DS Explorer (aka 3DSExplorer)
• 3DS Lazy
• CTR (Crappy Tiny Reader)
• DTLSExtractor
• Sm4shCommand

Physical Tools

• Various capture cards that allow lossless video and screenshot taking, with the assistance of a PC.

Suggested Emulators

None of these can play play commercial games perfectly yet.

• Citra
• 3dmoo
• TronDS

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