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Play your Snes on 3DS - Your Nintendo 3DS turned in to a portable SNES of sorts.  if you're a fan of the good old games on the SNES, then you'll be extremely happy to know that Snes on 3DS is alive and well, and has received a recent update, bringing with it even more game compatibility and fast loading times.  The Snes on 3DS app has been available for quite some time.  In fact it was first released for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems.  You need only an R4 3DS card and a desire to play some of the best 16 bit console games available.

There are only 2 different Snes emulators for the Nintendo DS, DSi and Nintendo 3DS.  The same two emulators work on all of the systems.  We're going to cover the one we use the most here, which is snemulds.  It's a favorite because it offers faster gameplay playback and has a bit more compatibility with many of the great Snes Games.  In this quick tutorial, we're going to cover how to setup and start using the emulator on your R4 3DS or R4i Gold card.  

If you already have an R4 3DS, then you can go ahead and follow the instructions below to get SnemulDS up and running, so that you can get in to some serious retro gaming.  If you just received your flash cart, then make sure to check out our R4 3DS Setup section to first load all of the needed firmware/kernel files so that your R4 3DS is ready to let you install the emulator and start playing.

Installing SnemulDS To Your R4 3DS Micro SD Card

Once you have our firmware kernel loaded to your R4, all that's left to do is to simply install / copy over the emulator to the micro SD card.  You can do this by downloading the emulator from our 3DS Homebrew section.  Once you have it downloaded to your PC or MAC, you will want to put your micro SD card in to the USB Reader / Writer that came with your R4.  Now, plug it in to the USB port on your computer and open up the new removeable drive on your computer.  Find the snemulDS download you had saved earlier, and copy over the snemulDS .nds file to the micro SD card. 

You'll now have to put some of your games on the micro SD card as well.  As always, we suggest putting these games in their own folder, just for ease of access.  Make a new folder on your microSD card and call is SNES GAMES or simply just SNES.  Copy and paste over the games you have to this new folder, and you're all set.

All you have to do now is put aside some time and start retro gaming.  Plug your micro SD Card back in to your R4 3DS, and put that card in to your DS, DSi or Nintendo 3DS.  Once you power up and select the r4 menu, you'll be able to select SnemulDS as one of the files to load from the list of games and applications you have on your micro SD card.  Once it starts, you simply have to go to the SNES folder we created, and select the game you want to play.

Take a look below for 100 Snes games in just 10 Minutes.  This video shows off some of the very best games from that era.  16-bit console gaming was at an all time high when the Snes ruled the game world and brought with it some of the very best arcade conversions as well as movie based games, and some of the most unique games every created.