And it was just a matter of time. After the successful development of CEMU (Nintento WiiU emulator) and Citra (Nintendo 3DS emulator), there is a new one coming for Nintendo’s latest console, the Nintendo Switch. This emulator is being developed by the same team behind Citra and will be called yuzu.
As the team noted, yuzu is an open-source project, licensed under the GPLv2 (or any later version). This emulator has been designed with portability in mind, with builds available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
“The project was started in spring of 2017 by bunnei, one of the original authors of the popular Citra 3DS emulator, to experiment with and research the Nintendo Switch. Due to the similarities between Switch and 3DS, yuzu was developed as a fork of Citra. This means that it uses the same project architecture, and both emulators benefit from shared improvements. During the early months of development, work was done in private, and progress was slow. However, as Switch reverse-engineering and homebrew development became popular, work on yuzu began to take off as well.”
yuzu currently only emulates a subset of Switch hardware and therefore is generally only useful for running/debugging homebrew applications. At this time, yuzu does not run any commercial Switch games. However, yuzu can boot some games, to varying degrees of success, but does not implement any of the necessary GPU features to render 3D graphics.
Those interested can download the first build of this Nintendo Switch emulator from here!
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LMFAO. It won’t have games up and running smoothly right away, but its
only a matter of time before it does and you have an army of angry
Pikachu cosplayers sh*tting themselves in forums across the net.
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Is the 3ds emulator good like CEMU and more ancient emulators?
From what a friend of mine has told me, yes. I have no interest in 98% of 3DS games, so I can’t really give you an answer from personal experience. But, hey, the download isn’t too large, why not just give it a try?
Not sure if i’d classify cemu as “good” just yet
maybe you are right, but it’s still better than ps3 and xbox emulators
I dont regret my switch remind me when this emulator will let me play my games in my bed or when i travel or on the crapper.
And anyway its still very early and will probably takes quite a while untill we get something playable.
Anyway its a win win for me im also on pc.
What i would like is a working xbox and xbox 360 emulator
you forgot about laptops… (though you may require to buy a top-end laptop for this type of emulation)
THIS IS F`KING PATHATIC I HOPE NINTENDO SUE THE SH`T OUT OF THESE F`KERS!
F`KING PIRATE THIEVES
just like they did w/ cemu right?
Pirates? I guess you don’t understand what piracy is then, cos emulation has nothing to do with that, educate yourself first before raging
OH YOU IDIOT I GUESS HOW ROMS WORKS?? NINTENDO HAVE COPY PROTECTION BY CREATE ROMS AND MAKING THEM WORK WITH EMU REQUIRES REVERSE ENGINEERING THE DRM WHICH IS CRIME AND NOT TO SAY THE LARGE AMOUNT OF ILLEGAL ROMS DOWNLOADED OVER THE INTERNET IF YOU USE THE SWITCH EMULATOR BY DOWNLOADING THE ROMS ONLINE IT IS ILLEGAL PIRATES THIEVES
THERE IS NO WAY OF LEGALLY PLAYING THE GAMES FROM SWITCH ON PC LEGALLY BECAUSE THE COMES IN CARTRIDGE AND HAS DRM OR ONLINE YOU NEED TO EDUCATE YOURSELF YOU DELUSIONAL IDIOT
The only pathetic thing here is your comment and you, go cry some more, you just don’t want people on PC to play nintendo games, after all piracy is coming in hot to the switch, having emulators doesn’t mean you have to pirate the game, but I guess you already know that. don’t you? troll.
It’s comical how angry you get over something that has always existed with video games and probably always will. You’re going to end up with stomach ulcers if you don’t stop getting yourself all worked up over nothing : )
Too funny! Seeing well known troll KKW raging this hard is rather amusing. ?
I have the nintendo switch, but i agreed wih you. This troll without life, deserve to be miserable, i hope he will get the IP ban one day.
I am sorry. As much as I love emulation, I cannot endorse that.
Nice 🙂 Hopefully the development goes more smoothly than Cemu 🙂
I love watching Nintendo fans flip out about piracy, damn hilarious to watch.
Emulators have nothing to do with piracy just educate them
I know that, it’s fun watching them get all up tight about people getting free games, when they had to pay for them.
What? Nothing you mean. Lets see the math.
Emulator proportional to emulating games. Emulating games proportional to downloading games. Downloading games proportional to finding roms from illegal unauthorized torrent-sites. Downloading roms proportional to piracy.
I agree and i enjoy these projects myself it takes a lot of work and understanding on how the hardware works on a low level. Very talented people i really like the progress that has been done on dolphin emulator
Who cares about piracy for Nintendo i mean take a look at the sales on the mini nes and mini snes despite the fact that a 20$ smartphone can play all the games fine.
Companies shouldn’t be so worried about this stuff i mean i’d much rather play these games on my PC at home and i would like to play them on something portable like the switch on the go.
As a side note i think for the first time ever i can recommend consoles over PC’s(for new buyers) for gaming over major crazy prices on hardware absolutely outrageous.
Can’t even find a 1050Ti anymore at its retailed prices freaking sucks to be a PC gamer.
Tell me about it, just bought a 1080ti last week for £700+ (thanks Vega) What a rip off lol.
what does vega had to do with it
If it was worth buying, I would have stuck with AMD, as I have a Freesync monitor.
well now you cant buy it anyhow… it is sold out world wide
I know, this launch has been a disaster, I waited over a year for that card lol.
actually now it i mining.. all cards from AMD are gone
Dude I so feel you! I’m exactly in the same position LOL. Stuck with a Freesynch monitor and constrained to buy and nvidia card XD
Oh well…it’s just a phase…might as well wait for the the 7nm Vega 🙂
I waited over 14 months for it, that was long enough, stay strong only a year or 2 more :/
This isn’t what you want to hear but you were probably lucky to find one in stock at that price. Mostly the prices for 1080 Ti have skyrocketed because mining has gotten very profitable again and that’s who are buying up those cards wherever they can. I have seen some reports that miners running really large farms are buying them before they even make it down the supply chain to retailers.
This is just a really, really bad time to be upgrading a GPU. But on the bright side you now have a beast of a card and I’m sure you are impressed with it’s performance.
Yeah you’re right, crazy times to buy a card. I just bought a 34″ ultrawide, and my 290x obviously didn’t have what it takes, but the ti is killing it now.
I don’t get it, what’s that supposed to mean? They’re “suicidal” because they bought a Switch?
what do you expect from a loser on this site?
Nintendo just put your games on the PC… the end
Agreed. Other console exclusive titles are coming to PC because there’s big money in it and I don’t think it would require a massive effort or expense to put some Nintendo games out for PC. If I understand it correctly Nintendo uses AMD hardware so how difficult would it be to port some of their more popular titles? Seems like easy money to me.
and the fact that nintendo games have been emulated on the pc for over a decade now
Well over 3 decades even.
The switch uses NVIDIA hardware, other consoles idk but yea it should be simple enough.
Still isn’t the same charm as having a real nintendo switch
Don’t get me wrong i am a PCgamer but for sure i like to play my SWITCH games when i am sh1t1ing or going in vacation or at a sleepover or just simply laying down in bed <3
“Still isn’t the same charm as having a real nintendo switch”
yes because there is such charm in 720p/30fps on a small screen.
yes , considering i got a 1080ti and i7 8700k + g-sync 144hz monitor got to say that switch feels and plays better than all emulators out there its responsive as 240hz on pc gj nintendo japan
Don’t listen to him, hes a known troll.
2018 Switch = GameBoy and for a pure pcgamer perspective thats brilliant
I already knew this would be a thing in 2018. I would like to try out Mario. Other than that Zelda was the only other game I was interested in, but they released it for the Wii U as well.
While I played a good 20 hours of Zelda on the Wii U, I am going to finish it on PC. At 4k with graphics packs and reshade the game looks amazing. That’s to say it is an amazing game in pretty much every way. Full of so many small details and the animations are near Disney/Pixar quality.
Awesome! i could finally play the switch the way it was meant to be played™
Let the games begin Citra devs, I’m ready