Homebrew Applications

Installing

Applications are installed by copying the necessary files directly to the 3ds/ folder in the root of the SD card, or in a subdirectory of 3ds/, in which case said subfolder must be named identically to its executable. Most applications come with two files:

• [appname].3dsx: The executable.
• [appname].smdh: The icon/metadata. (Not required in any case, and may be integrated into the .3dsx)
• [appname].xml: The list of supported targets, i.e. installed titles which the app supports replacing in memory at runtime, thus inheriting its permissions. (Optional)

The Homebrew Launcher will scan the SD card for all .3dsx files, but will only display an icon for those who have one according to the format described above. Recent enough versions can freely navigate the filesystem to select an application.

List

Launchers

Official Launcher

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source
Homebrew Launcher	Run homebrew on your 3DS!	smea	Here	Yes
Homebrew Starter Pack	Everything to get you started.	smea	Here	Yes

Alternate Launchers

Name	Description	Author	Install	Open-Source	Last Updated
Mashers' HBL	Homebrew Launcher with grid and folder support.	Mashers	Here	Yes	2016-02-25

Applications

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source	Last Updated
3DS HomeMenu extdata Tool	Tool for accessing the SD extdata which Home Menu uses. This essentially allows writing custom themes to extdata which get loaded at Home Menu startup.	yellows8	Here	Yes	2015-08-17
3dsfetch	Small 3DS version of a popular Linux ricing script called screenfetch.	VideahGams	Here	Yes	2015-09-17
Brainfudge	An alpha brainfuck interpreter. No longer under development and without repo.	V0idst4r	Here (legacy)	Yes (No source officially available.)	2015-12-22
ctrrpc	A small and easily extensible RPC server/client written in C/Python. Allows you to quickly poke service-commands and syscalls over Wi-Fi from a Python shell on your PC. Useful during reverse-engineering. No longer under (active) development?	plutoo	Build from repo	Yes	2014-11-10
ctr-streaming-server	A 3DS homebrew audio/video playback server. It can also send HID state to the client (see the README) when enabled. The included parse_hidstream tool can be used to parse that HID data to simulate keyboard/mouse input events, via Linux uinput. No longer under (active) development?	yellows8	Build from repo	Yes	2014-11-20
Custom Home Menu Manager 2	Theme manager for Nintendo 3DS.	Rinnegatamante	Here	Yes	2016-07-04
DownloadMii	A WIP repo-based online marketplace for homebrew applications & games.	filfat	Build from repo	Yes	2015-11-24
Homebrew Browser	Download homebrew from the internet!	cromo, zeta0134	Here	Yes	2015-10-07
fb43ds	A simple 3DS Facebook chat client	linoma	Build from repo	Yes	2015-04-07
for-anyone-who-walks-a-lot	Tool to get past the 10 coin per day limit on earning Play Coins by walking.	iamevn	Here	Yes	2016-03-26
ScreenInfo	Identify whether New 3DS LCD panels are TN or IPS.	SciresM	Here	Yes	2016-09-04

Game Engines

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source	Last Updated
LövePotion	An unofficial WIP implementation of the LÖVE API for 3DS Homebrew.	VideahGams	Here	Yes	2016-09-12
ctrµLua	A Lua interpreter for 3DS, brought to life by the remnants of the µLua community.	Firew0lf, Reuh, Negi	Here	Yes	2016-06-27
LuaPlayer+ 3DS	First Lua interpreter 3DS homebrew, under Lua 5.3.1	Rinnegatamante	Here	Yes	2016-09-21
MegaZeux 3DS	A port of the MegaZeux GCS to the 3DS.	asie	Here	Yes	2016-10-30

Games

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source	Last Updated
100 Boxes 2DS	A remake of homebrew "100 Boxes puzzle" for DS and GBA.	Cid2mizard	Here	No	2015-11-11
2048-3D	A port of the popular game 2048 for the 3DS.	Jasper Peters	Here	Yes	2016-02-12
3DSCraft	A Minecraft port for the 3DS. No longer under (active) development?	smea	Build from repo (alt. here)	Yes	2014-11-20
3DS Nyan Cat	A port of Nyan Cat for the 3DS, using LIBSF2D.	markwinap	Build from repo (alt. here)	Yes	2015-05-26
Antibounce	"Move your player to bounce around and collect coins. Go between screens through the holes in the sides of the floor. 3D can also be enabled."	TurtleP	Here	Yes	2015-12-23
checkers3ds	A checkers game in glorious ASCII. No longer under development.	UnsureSherlock	Build from repo	Yes	2016-02-25
Cookie Collector	A tiny adaptation of the popular Cookie Clicker game for the 3DS.	Kaisogen	Here (alt. here)	Yes	2016-03-30
Cookie Clicker 3DS	A simple Cookie Clicker type of game inspired by Kaisogen's Cookie Collector	TheMachinumps	Here	Yes	2016-08-27
DrawAttack	Online multiplayer drawing game, like Pictionary.	Cruel	Here	Yes	2016-04-17
EDuke3D	An unofficial port of EDuke32 for the 3DS.	MasterFeizz	Here	Yes	2016-05-09
Hamsters 2DS	A text-based hamster breeding game.	Cid2mizard	Here	No	2015-11-01
Helii	A port of Helii for the 3DS.	BHSPitMonkey	Here	Yes	2015-09-18
Insectoid Defense	A Sci-Fi Tower Defense game.	sgowen	Here	Yes	2015-11-09
NumberFucker3DS	Simple math game, originally used as a debug game for LövePotion.	VideahGams	Here	Yes	2015-09-19
Mastermind 3DS	A port of Mastermind for the 3DS.	Jasper Peters	Here	Yes	2015-08-15
Minesweeper 2DS	A port of Minesweeper for the 3DS.	Cid2mizard	Here	No	2015-11-01
One Whale Trip	Five-lane underwater whale swimming/pearl pickup adventure game in Python.	thp	Here	Yes	2016-10-02
Paddle Puffle 3DS	A port of Paddle Puffle for the 3DS.	Peanut42	Here	Yes	2015-07-05
Pituka Classics	Play CPC classics using Pituka Emulator-Core on 3DS.	D_Skywalk	Rick Dangerous Core	Yes (core)	2016-02-26
Pixel Shuffle 2DS	An adaptation of the puzzle game Pixel Shuffle for the 3DS.	Cid2mizard	Here	No	2015-11-01
Pixel Swap 2DS	An adaptation of puzzle games Pixel Swap 1 & 2 for the 3DS.	Cid2mizard	Here	No	2015-11-01
Portal3DS	An adaptation of Portal for the 3DS.	smea	Build from repo (alt. here)	Yes	2015-08-18
ctrQuake	An unofficial port of Quake for the 3DS, fully playable.	MasterFeizz	Here	Yes	2016-09-16
Reversi	Reversi for the 3DS.	Jasper Peters	Here	Yes	2016-03-05
Sokoban	An unofficial port of the puzzle game Sokoban for the 3DS.	Landm	Here	Yes	2016-03-14
Space Fruit	Hackathon game by 4 friends ported to 3DS. Asteroids but with fruit.	TurtleP	Here	Yes	2016-04-09
Tappy Plane	A port of Flappy Bird for 3DS, but with a colorful plane.	sgowen	Here	Yes	2015-11-09
Tetrepetete 3DS	A game with blocks.	thp	Here	No	2016-06-29
TileMap 2DS	An adaptation of the puzzle game TileMap for the 3DS.	Cid2mizard	Here	No	2015-11-03
Tiles 2DS	An adaptation of the puzzle game Lights Out for the 3DS.	Cid2mizard	Here	No	2015-11-01
That Rabbit Game 3DS	Inverse duck hunt with accelerometer input and stereoscopic 3D.	thp	Here	No	2016-07-04
Trucmuche 2DS 09	An adaptation of the hidden objects game Trucmuche for the 3DS.	Cid2mizard	Here	No	2015-12-03
World of 3DSand	A port of World of Sand for the 3DS.	Steveice10	Here	Yes	2016-07-12
Yeti3DS	A quick and dirty port of Derek Evans' Yeti3D software rendering engine.	smea	Build from repo	Yes	2015-08-07

Emulators

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source	Last Updated
3DNES	A NES emulator, without sound support. No longer under development.	st4rk, gdkChan	Here	Yes	2015-03-28
atari800-3DS	An Atari 8-bit home computer emulator.	asie	Here	Yes	2016-10-29
blargSnes	A Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator. A compatibility list can be found here.	StapleButter	Here	Yes	2015-06-12
CHIP-3DS	A simple and slow CHIP-8 emulator.	xerpi	Build from repo (alt. here)	Yes	2015-04-02
CHIP8-2DS	CHIP-8 emulator with savestates and touch controls.	nopy4869	Here	Yes	2016-07-20
CitrAGB	Yet another GBA emulator for the 3DS.	Shiny Quagsire	Build from repo (alt. here)	Yes	2015-09-21
EasyRPG Player	RPG Maker 2000/2003 interpreter	Rinnegatamante & EasyRPG Team	Here	Yes	2016-10-14
GameYob	A Game Boy (Color) emulator. A compatibility list can be found here.	Drenn/Steveice10	Here	Yes	2016-07-17
mGBA	A GBA emulator that runs well without kernel hax.	endrift	Here	Yes	2016-10-13
r3Ddragon	A WIP Virtual Boy emulator for the 3DS based on Reality Boy / Red Dragon.	mrdanielps	Here	Yes	2016-08-16
RetroArch	A multisystem emulator. (GB, GBA, SNES, Genesis, CPS1, CPS2, etc.)	libretro	Here	Yes	Undergoing rapid development.
SNES9x for 3DS	A SNES emulator for the old 3DS / 2DS. Optimised from Snes9x 1.43 and runs many games at full speed. Compatibility list here	bubble2k16	Here	Yes	2016-10-15

Title managers

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source	Last Updated
FBI	Open source CIA (un)installer and launcher.	Steveice10	Here	Yes	2015-12-02
FBI 2	Multipurpose file/title/ticket/save manager	Steveice10	Here	Yes	2016-12-31
NASA	Universal CIA Manager for FWs 4.1 - 10.7	Rinnegatamante	Here	No	2016-04-13

Save managers

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source	Last Updated
save_manager	Proof of concept save exporter/importer	profi200	Here	Yes	2015-09-13
svdt	Save Data Explorer/Manager	meladroit	Here	Yes	2015-10-16
JK's Save Manager	Save/Extdata Manager	JK_	Here	Yes	2016-09-29

File servers

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source	Last Updated
ftpd (ftBrony)	A FTP server.	mtheall	Here	Yes	2016-09-17
FTP-3DS	Fork of ftBrony with a Nintendo theme. No longer under development and without repo.	iamevn	N/A	Yes (No source officially available.)	N/A
FTP - Graphic ModifierX Edition	Fork of ftpd with aesthetic modifications.	FloatingStar	Here	Yes	2016-01-27
ftpony	A basic FTP server, useful for testing new homebrew versions without swapping the SD card. No longer under (active) development?	smea	Build from repo (alt. here)	Yes	2014-11-24

Icon Packs

Icon Packs are SMDH Packs for homebrew apps.

Name	Description	Author	Download	Last Updated
Simplok	The first 3DS Icon pack.	link6155	Here	2015-09-12
1LP	Another 3DS Icon pack. Repo is dead, no alternate downloads available.	100pcrack	N/A	2015-12-22
Modern UI	A simple icon pack with a flat and minimalist design.	LouchDaishiteru	Here	2016-02-15

Demos

Name	Description	Author	Download	Open-Source	Last Updated
cubedemo	A short demo of Homebrew on the 3DS, with working sound.	plutoo	Here	No	N/A
Spine 2D	Demo of Spine's 2D skeletal animations	Cruel	3DSX; CIA	No	N/A
demo ou mourir	Small demo for the 3DS with music and 2D effects	Desire	Here	No	November 2015