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- Since the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra shut down in March, many forks have appeared to continue development.
- Two popular Citra forks, Lime3DS and PabloMK7, are now closing down development.
- The two developers will work together to create a new, unified project with features from both standalone forks.
It’s been a rough year for Nintendo emulation fans, with emulators getting shuttered left and right. This week, two more Nintendo 3DS emulators, PabloMK7 and Lime3DS, are also being dropped by their respective developers, but for a completely different reason.
Both emulators are forks of the most popular Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra, which was shut down in the wake of the Yuzu case. Since it was open-source, new developers quickly picked up the project and implemented new features. However, as is the case with PabloMK7 and Lime3DS, these efforts were often done in parallel, effectively doubling the work for the same result.