So you finally got a hack for your 3DS because you missed out on cubic ninja before the prices went through the roof and you’re all psyched about the fact you’re going to get to relive your youth and pour hours upon hours of your life into GBA games that you once loved such as Gen 3 Pokémon, Chain of Memories and Advanced Wars (to name a few). You get your emulator up and running and holy heck, is it’s slow. Now you’re wondering if it’s your bios or your homebrew launcher or god knows what, right? Yeah, I was in the same position until I came across this comment from shinyquagsire23 (the dev behind CitrAGB):
Dynrec only works on o3DS and N3DS on versions 9.2 and below with ninjhax 1.0. As of now, the module which does kernel hax, libkhax, is broken under ninjhax 2, and as such 9.2 and below units with this version of ninjhax will fail to gain kernel access and fail to launch. Hence the current 3dsx which forces interpreter mode for now. So dynrec will not be a thing on 9.3-9.9 unless new arm11 kernel exploits are found.
I actually tried getting dynrec working for 9.2 and below peeps on CFW, assuming the CFW disabled SVC checks. However I’m being plagued with icache issues the same as libkhax, even if I force a complete icache clear. It’s strange.
So basically what this means is that those of us who have updated their console to be able to access the eShop to be able to download the YouTube and Ironfall applications are in rather an unfortunate position until a hack with kernel access is released on firmware 9.3+ and as much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, the likelihood of this (at least from what I have gathered) seems to be relatively slim.
It isn’t all doom and gloom though. You can of course run all the homebrew found on 3dbrew and there are a few diligent users of GBATemp who have been testing various GBA roms using CitrAGB in its current state and have found that there are games that are playable and have created a list: http://pastebin.com/cNSun3JK
If you wish to contribute to this list contact Greymane on GBATemp: https://gbatemp.net/members/greymane.368011/
Note: I have not contacted Greymane myself and am unsure as to whether or not he wishes to collaborate with people or whether it’s going to be an ongoing process. If you happen to read this and do not wish to be contacted then please feel free to contact me and I will remove this section from this article.
And a note to anybody that does happen to contact Greymane, if he asks where you got his information or the idea to contact him, please link him to this article so that he may contact me if he does in fact wish to have his name removed, thank you.
3dsgba is slow too
First 🙂 So the only way to emulate GBA on 3DS is use the DSTWO and its GBA emulator.
First!!!
Dang, so the trade off for TubeHax/IronHax over Ninjax1 is that slow GBA emulation might be a permanent issue? I hope the homebrew community (*cough* Smealum) can find a new Arm11 kernel exploit for those who chose to update to firmware 9.2 and up /:
Yes all the amazing homebrew choices we have like cubedemo and 3DS nyancat.
The 3DS homebrew scene is a joke, there’s absolutely nothing worth “hacking” your 3DS for other than being able to play games region free.
The GBA emu was probably the only thing worth anything and you can’t use it with this hack, the snes and gbc emulator also suck so you have nothing to use this hack for.
What a joke.
I’ve been playing final fantasy 5 for the past week and it works just fine, don’t expect stuff like super FX or giant roms to work. The gbc emulation has a little bit of a sound glitch but otherwise is perfect. The hack was free.
I’m first you Suckers!!!
You are NOT first my friend.
You need to let that dream go.
#Necrocommentsmatter
Sounds like psp will still be the best for portable gba emulation
Yup.
Okay this is all fine, but where’s the Pool Hall Pro exploit files? Been waiting awhile for those.
There might be a vulnerability and it might be useful. No one ever said anything was set in stone. You pay for the game, the vbl is a bonus.
Did the developers know about this before releasing this? If so it should have been announced. I Imagine there are a lot of upset people right now.
wow.. another point for vita is awesomeness..
First
Is there a way to Scale the GBA Emulation so it is bigger? Or is that not worked on yet?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooOoooOOo! Final Fantasy VI Advance…
Why not just grab FFVI on PS1 and play on your PSP/Android (PPSSPP)?
Thousands of new users can now use homebrew on the 3ds, these users will have a few new or old devs thrown in… with a lot of access will come a lot of work from a lot of people. Give it a year and the 3ds will be very impressive, nothing is perfect in it’s early days. The amount of people that forget the vita hacks are built on years of psp experience is astounding. Stop expecting a baby to write a book you dolts, give it time to grow.
The games on Gba are more playable on NEW 3DS, on 3DS XL are slow.
People forget that with CFW on 9.2, you can run GBA games perfectly because the 3ds has native GBA hardware support.
Just to be clear:
This is an issue with OFW 9.9.0 and not Ironhax/Tubehax, right? If I used Ninjhax on my 9.9.0 N3DS I’d have the same problem?
Yes, the built-in GBA emulator is too slow to play Rhythm Tengoku on my N3DS with firmware 9.5.0-22U and Ninjhax 2.1
…..but what….? lol my GameYob run my roms just fine
Gameyob is a gameboy and gameboy color emulator they run fine. Citra is a gameboy advanced emulator so its not working smooth as of now