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 Emulation never dies! it changes and moves forward!
 
 
-<h4 align="left"><b>Lime</b> is the rebith project for Citra the world's most popular, open-source, Nintendo 3DS emulator.
+<h4 align="left"><b>Lime</b> is the rebirth project for Citra the world's most popular, open-source, Nintendo 3DS emulator.
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 It is written in C++ with portability in mind and builds are actively maintained for Windows, Linux, Android, and macOS.
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