Steamless VS citra

I'm not gonna put the actual instructions for cracking here since that's already on the sites of the tools you'll be using. I will only link the tools here and the rest will be up to you. The main tools for cracking are going to be Steamless, and Goldberg emulator. These tools can be a bit tedious on their own but someone has graciously made an auto cracker that requires you to download the first 2 tools and then automates the process for you.

FWIW people don't need to install visual studio and build Steamless from source, they can just download the release of Steamless from https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless/releases/latest

Steamless - for unpacking DOA6.exe.

If you wanna play those games you brought in steam you get yourself a steam emulator like goldberg's heres the link if you want to https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/ (Note:It only works if you have a game protected with steam's DRM and if it dosent work go get steamless by Atm0s https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless/releases/tag/v3.1.0.3)

TH13 (Ten Desires) and onwards are all available on DLSite for digital purchase as well. Everything else before that up until PoFV are all on Steam. Everything before PoFV (excluding PC-98) are available for physical purchase through AKIBA-HOBBY. All aforementioned methods can be found on the wiki’s Purchasing Guide. You can also use Steamless (GitHub) to play any game on Steam you’ve purchased without DRM.

Well if u having trouble with the new ck and steam seems to be the culprit get Steamless, which cut ties with steam and makes ck standalone

A Steamless version of Skyrim is DRM-free, can roll back updates, and can be totally offline.

You can, if you strip the steam DRM off the game with steamless

Anything with an external launcher like Ubisoft Play or EA Origin have DRM checks. Steam has them as well to combat people selling accounts or piracy and requires that you be online every 2 weeks or so to play the game. Games that have no need for online and do not have an external launcher can be fixed by using Steamless to make a DRM free exe that can be run in offline mode. Having someone play on your pc and also play on your deck at same time without being kicked off of one of the games while BOTH being online works this way as well. This will not work with all games but if it only uses steam DRM and has no online features it will.

Doesn't cover 3DS (Citra)

Another wonderful option is to play Nintendo 3DS games with the Citra emulator. They look incredible. I would go so far as to say that if you're a fan of the console then this is the best way to experience its games, even better than on the original hardware. Again use 3840x1200 @ 60 Hz and full SBS. In Emulation -> Configure... -> Graphics -> Stereoscopy set it to "Side by Side". Also increase the renderer internal resolution to as high as your PC can handle (I used "5x Native"). We'll also have to set the display layout for our resolution and aspect ratio. Unfortunately, this has to be done manually. Browse to %APPDATA%\Citra\config and edit qt-config.ini with this in the [display] section:

After some more research, I discovered that the Citra devs discovered and fixed this issue by allowing the Back button to open the in-emulation menu. This fix was added on Jan 22 2023. When I checked the version of Citra available on the Google Play Store on my phone, it was a very old version from May 2021, which is strange because viewing the same Play Store page on my computer shows it was updated in April 2023... maybe your Play Store version is also outdated? If so, the only solution I can think of would be to install the apk from the Citra Nightly github repo.

https://citra-emu.org/ A 3ds emulator!

You might want to consider compiling it on your Mac yourself, rather than trying to download a build, given the situation with MacOS transitioning to ARM. Beyond that, your question is related ton emulation, not ROMs specifically, so if you still need help, ask on related subreddits like r/EmulationOnMacOS and r/CitraEmulator.

https://citra-emu.org/ just typing the console + emulator on any search engine should give u the best option most of the time

I used the one here (you need a github account): https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/actions/runs/5078058438

There have been several recent changes merged for custom textures. Here is one of the pull requests for example: https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/pull/6452. The slow loading you're talking about was only an issue for me if preload custom textures was enabled.