Aes-keys.txt Citra

A Nintendo 3DS family console with custom firmware (boot9strap/Luma3DS). An SD card reader. Step-by-Step Dump Procedure

This is the most critical section of this guide. Emulators are legal because they are clean-room recreations of a system's functionality. However, the encryption keys are copyrighted proprietary data owned by Nintendo. aes-keys.txt citra

The official Citra emulator, built as a clean-room reverse-engineered project, cannot legally include any of Nintendo's proprietary cryptographic keys in its source code. As a result, it can only run unencrypted (already decrypted) games without additional configuration. However, this severely limits what users can play. A Nintendo 3DS family console with custom firmware

/Android/data/org.citra.citra_emu/files/citra-emu/sysdata/ built as a clean-room reverse-engineered project