Do not forget you need a very powerful device for the Citra to run the ROMs. You can surely give Citra a try with all the Decrypted ROMS to check if it works well. In my test, I found Shovel Knight, Crashmo, Luigi’s Mansion and Animal Crossing run pretty good while Mario 3D and Pokemon Y were worst to play. Also, there is no confirmation from the Citra developers for the same, as they just said that they are working with the developer to bring the Citra to Android. The game is an unofficial port so it has nothing to do with the official Citra. You can even get decrypted ROMs 3DS online for Citra. You can Google to find how to decrypt 3DS games. Games won’t be recognized if they’re still encrypted. You are familiar with the emulators you may know that 3DS games need to be decrypted before using them in an emulator. The back-end of Citra is ported behind Dolphin Emulator’s front-end giving a smooth UI experience. If you have a performance-based smartphone then Citra could play the games for you perfectly. But the perfect running of the game also depends on the power of your device. It is not a perfect 3DS emulator for Android smartphone as it has its bugs, issues and other native problems but what makes it so impressive is it can run some titles smoothly without any concerns.

For running Nintendo DS on Android, the emulator behaves as a DS system which can be installed on the Android and the games can be installed on the emulator to play. An emulator is a software that enables one computer system to behave like another computer system.

Citra emulator for android