Retroarch 3ds Install Guide

24-05-2021 admin

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Retroarch 3ds Install Guide

Some people kick the new year off with fireworks and champagne toasts. Geekier types do things like getting Windows 95 to run on a Nintendo 3DS.

In the wee hours of January 1st, a GBAtemp forum user who’d previously tried in vain to make Microsoft’s 20-year-old operating system boot finally succeeded. There’s even a video of the boot process taking place, complete with a post-improper shutdown ScanDisk run.

Not everyone was ready to believe that one of Nintendo’s dual-screen handhelds is capable of running Windows 95, so these uploads were met with some skepticism. Hours later, however, the original poster delivered the goods: a complete set of the files he used that allow anyone who wants to give it a go to boot Win95 on their 3DS. Once they’d been shared, it didn’t take long before a handful of other users had figured things out and posted their own images.

So how exactly do you get Windows 95 to run on a 3DS? With a little help from DOSbox and RetroArch — similar to how someone else made it work on a Samsung smartwatch. And though you might think it would be unbearably slow running in an emulator on a 268MHz ARM processor and a relatively small amount of RAM, it’s apparently not that bad. Sure, it takes quite a while to boot up, but that gives a bit of added retro charm, doesn’t it?

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Of course, if you lack the necessary patience you can always hit the breaks before Windows 95 tries to boot and just launch your favorite old DOS games instead.