Fortunately, the aspect ratio problem doesn’t seem to affect bezel shaders.
The core overall worked well enough for me to ditch the old citra core, because I really wanted my roms in a losseles compressed format (.zcci).
If something does not work, I’ll just try the standalone Azahar.
Oh wow, this is so exciting. I got it to work, however, when trying to load a 3DS shader by @Duimon , RetroArch freezes unfortunatlely. Shaders without bezels seem to work though.
I want to do this too but i’m not comfortable ditching an “official” core for a “wild” core that isn’t available in the buildbot.
Does this issue happen with vulkan driver? Because there IS an issue currently with glcore driver + some shader presets, especially ones with a long reference chain. And particularly on Windows 11.
I hope all 3DS cores and emulators add support for these new formats. Just like chd was widely adopted overtime. But we might need to create a public demand for it first, if you know what I mean.
zcci files are not displayed in Retroarch though.
@petran791 You can make them work with Azahar core by following these easy steps in my previous post:
I switched to Vulkan before trying. I checked that Vulkan was enabled, too. I have not tried with GLcore.
Could you do me a favor and try the Duimon 3DS advanced presets?
Thank you!
Is the Azahar core still stuck to 1st October build or am i looking at the wrong link?
The October 1st build is the latest. It is only 29 commits behind as of Dec 20th. And almost all of those 29 commits have nothing to do with the libretro core, since they are for user interface and build optimizations.
I’m more interested in warmenhoven’s todo list which includes incomplete core and screen options, and microphone support.
How can we try the azahar/citra core, not sure how to compile it for the github page?
You can read the third post in this thread for directions
How to download mkxp-z development version (not released yet):
https://docs.libretro.com/library/mkxp-z/ to play RPG Maker XP/VX/VX Ace games.
There is an unfinished port of mkxp-z to RetroArch. Currently there is no release version, its all automatic generated from Github Actions. To find the one to use in RetroArch, one has to look for those labelled as “Libretro Support”
From there choose the right file to download, with filename starting with mkxp-z_libretro followed by the OS and architecture for your system, in my case mkxp-z_libretro.linux-gnu.x86_64.PR255-a84c2dd. And don’t forget to download the info file as well from: mkxp-z_libretro.info. To use the core additional files need to be installed, described in the documentation: BIOS.
What games do work, if any for you?
Now to my actual question here. I tried a few games and none work so far. They might be incompatible due to Ruby versions or other stuff. Do you happen to know any free games that work with the core?
Azahar Libretro core has been updated to a January 22 2026 build.
