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.

Thank you to Citra staff member TGP17 for compiling the Linux AppImages for us to use here!

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

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.

Linux

Download Citra-Nightly-1782.AppImage from this Citra Nightly 1782 GitHub releases page.

Open your file manager and browse to the location of the AppImage. Right-click on the AppImage and click the Properties entry. Switch to the Permissions tab and click the Allow executing file as program checkbox if you are using a Nautilus-based file manager, or click the Is executable checkbox if you are using KDE’s file manager, and close the dialog.

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.

Linux

Download Citra-Nightly-1443.AppImage from this Citra Nightly 1443 GitHub releases page.

Open your file manager and browse to the location of the AppImage. Right-click on the AppImage and click the Properties entry. Switch to the Permissions tab and click the Allow executing file as program checkbox if you are using a Nautilus-based file manager, or click the Is executable checkbox if you are using KDE’s file manager, and close the dialog.