Nintendo 3DS

The Nintendo 3DS is a handheld console created by Nintendo in 2011.

As the successor to the Nintendo DS, the console features two screens, with the bottom having touch controls. The console boasts a better set of specifications to its predecessor, but also allows for 3D vision without glasses on the top screen.

Ripping Tools

3DS Tools

(todo: sort some of these to individual game pages, or something, maybe)

• 3DS Homemenu ExtdataTool
• 3DS Ram Dumper
• Braindump userland romfs/exefs dumping
• CTR sddecrypt
• Extdata dump
• FCRamDump
• Gateway 3DS ROM Dumper (makes bad dumps?)
• RAM Dumping
• Various custom firmware that allow for game RAM modification and lossless screenshot taking

PC/3DS Tools

• 3DS Multi Decryptor

PC Tools

• 3DSkit
• 3DS Explorer (aka 3DSExplorer)
• 3DS Icon Decrypter
• 3DS Lazy
• 3DS To CIA Converter
• bch2obj
• BCWAV to BCSTM
• cgfx2obj
• cfgxViewer
• ctpktool
• CTR (Crappy Tiny Reader)
• Debanner
• DTLSExtractor
• Every File Explorer
• fmt_cgfx
• Level5 3DS Archive tool
• lsdt
• N3DS Cmb Viewer
• Ohana3DS Rebirth
• OhanaXY
• Sm4shCommand
• SmashPACK
• SPICA
• Switch Toolbox
• texturipper
• xfsa

Physical Tools

• Various capture cards that allow lossless video and screenshot taking, with the assistance of a PC.

Common File Formats

• .CGFX - Model/Animation data
• .BCH - Model/Animation data
• .BCLIM - Texture/Sprite data
• .CTPK - Texture/Sprite data
• .BCFNT - Font data
• .MSBT - Game text data

Suggested Emulators

Citra

Citra is an open source emulator taking cues from Dolphin in terms of presentation and support. It runs many 3DS games and can even play games that support local wifi but the emulator is still WIP with many known games not working yet. It requires a very powerful computer that has a 64 bit processor to run with some games requiring higher requirements than others.