[b00t3r]

VirtuaNES Download Play is the VirtuaNES we all love with something extra - Download Play!
Load the emulator on two systems, it supports all flavours of 2DS and 3DS, system 1 hosts the rom and system 2 joins.
It's as easy as.. pie!

Source repo:
https://github.com/bOOt3r/emus3ds-download-play

Release asset:
https://github.com/bOOt3r/emus3ds-download-play/releases

[github-actions]

Test Results

GitHub -- bOOt3r/emus3ds-download-play
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    "long_description": "VirtuaNES for 3DS with Download Play support for local multiplayer.",
    "stars": 0,
    "title": "emus3ds-download-play",
    "author": "Jonathan Lim\u00e9n",
    "description": "This fork adds native local multiplayer to the VirtuaNES core in `bubble2k16/emus3ds`. The goal is to let two 3DS/2DS systems play the same two-player NES game together over local wireless while each console runs the NES emulator locally.",
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    "updated": "2026-08-18T19:36:50Z",
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[github-actions]

Test Results

GitHub -- bOOt3r/emus3ds-download-play
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    "description": "This fork adds native local multiplayer to the VirtuaNES core in `bubble2k16/emus3ds`. The goal is to let two 3DS/2DS systems play the same two-player NES game together over local wireless while each console runs the NES emulator locally.",
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