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Citra Legacy Builds

As the Citra team is working on modernizing the emulator, with features such as a higher OpenGL requirement on PC and upgrading our Qt interface to Qt6, we have sadly had to drop support for some older hardware and older operating system versions. This page is an archive of all the older builds you may need to use to use Citra.

Last supported build for OpenGL 3.3

Windows

Download citra-windows-mingw-20220901-d380980.7z from the Citra Nightly 1782 GitHub releases page.

Extract the .7z file to your Documents folder on your PC. Open citra(.exe) for the CLI and open citra-qt(.exe) for the GUI.

MacOS

  • MacOS support has been temporarily dropped whilst work on the graphics backend is underway. This build is required for everyone on MacOS for the time being.

Download citra-osx-20220901-d380980.tar.gz from the Citra Nightly 1782 GitHub releases page.

Extract the .tar.gz file to your Documents folder on your PC. Open citra-qt for the GUI.

Last supported build for Windows 7/8.1

Download citra-windows-mingw-20230504-70335a7.7z from the Citra Nightly 1898 GitHub releases page.

Extract the .7z file to your Documents folder on your PC. Open citra(.exe) for the CLI and open citra-qt(.exe) for the GUI.

Last build before the core timing rewrite

The core timing rewrite fixed many issues on Citra when it was first released, but caused performance issues on a very small number of games, such as Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional.

Windows

Download citra-windows-mingw-20200321-8722b97.7z from the Citra Nightly 1443 GitHub releases page.

Extract the .7z file to your Documents folder on your PC. Open citra(.exe) for the CLI and open citra-qt(.exe) for the GUI.