Andy Walker / Android Authority
TL;DR Nintendo 3DS emulator Azahar has restored support for the most common .3ds file type.
Support was previously removed to distance the project from game piracy.
The removal prompted forks that restored support, causing confusion for users.
Azahar provided a light at the end of the tunnel after the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra was caught in the crossfire of Nintendo’s legal actions against Yuzu, but there was always one major complaint. A complaint that earned it countless poor reviews on Google Play, causing great confusion among users and spawning several sketchy forks.
That change is the removal of support for .3ds files, which is by far the most common ROM file type for Nintendo 3DS games. The team claimed this was to distance the project from its predecessor’s dubious roots in piracy, but in practice, all you needed to do was change the file extension from .3ds to .cci, and it still worked, provided the files were not encrypted.
This simple change caused confusion and 'unnecessary fragmentation of the 3DS emulation community.'
This caused significant user frustration, as evidenced by early reviews on the Google Play Store listing. Now, the devs are reversing that decision and restoring support for the .3ds filetype. In an update released today, the team admits that the removal was “an act of project philosophy rather than a technical change,” although the emulator still does not and likely never will support encrypted ROMs.
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