Nintendo Switch emulator revealed

[matrix07012]

Yuzu

 

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Yuzu is an experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.

It is written in C++ with portability in mind, with builds actively maintained for Windows, Linux and macOS. The emulator is currently only useful for homebrew development and research purposes.

 

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Can I play Switch games?

No – at this time, yuzu does not run any commercial Switch games. yuzu can boot some games, to varying degrees of success, but does not implement any of the necessary GPU features to render 3D graphics.

 

When will yuzu run games?

In short – we do not know how soon games might run. While yuzu is making great progress, Switch emulation is very complex. Running games is one of the team’s top priorities, so we are actively working toward that goal!
 

Where does the name come from?

Citrus junos, or yuzu (from Japanese ユズ), is a citrus fruit, most commonly used in Asian cuisines. This name was chosen as an homage to Citra and its developers, whose work gave the foundation for this project.

 

This didn't take that long. Switch was released not even a year ago and there's already an emulator in development.
Switch emulation might be easier than emulation of other consoles, since there's already a lot of documentation available, but we'll see.

 

 

Sauce: https://yuzu-emu.org

GitHub: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu

[Coombzy]

Saw this coming a mile off, the Switch uses a Tegra chip which is essentially tablet hardware and easily emulated. I still prefer playing my games on the hardware its intended for though.

[aezakmi]

now we can play those 9999 in 1 mario games in our PCs

[Trik'Stari]

And Nintendo's legal department has an aneurysm in 3...2...

[Blebekblebek]

I've never heard nintendo going full retard regarding the emulators, downloading games/iso yes, but not emulators

All these NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, NDS, 3DS had working emulator.

 

 

[Misanthrope]

"Research purposes" it's the gaming equivalent of "Netflix and chill"

[TetraSky]

3 hours ago, Coombzy said:

Saw this coming a mile off, the Switch uses a Tegra chip which is essentially tablet hardware and easily emulated. I still prefer playing my games on the hardware its intended for though.

Sometimes the games run better on emulators though.

Take the Breath of the Wild game, on WiiU, the game struggles to keep at a consistent framerate and can dip quite low(mostly Korok forest, pre 1.1.1 patch, it's not as bad now, but still not great).

While on the PC WiiU emulator, you can keep it at 4k 60fps if you have the hardware for it.

Emulators are great to get have a better experience for some games, you can make older games look newer with special filters, super sampling textures and what not. Also Quicksaves.

[Coombzy]

1 minute ago, TetraSky said:

Sometimes the games run better on emulators though.

Take the Breath of the Wild game, on WiiU, the game struggles to keep at a consistent framerate and can dip quite low(mostly Korok forest, pre 1.1.1 patch, it's not as bad now, but still not great).

While on the PC WiiU emulator, you can keep it at 4k 60fps if you have the hardware for it.

Emulators are great if you have a better experience for some games, you can make older games look newer with special filters, super sampling textures and what not. Also Quicksaves.

I don't care for emulation, playing 3DS games on the PC feels weird to me and after playing BOTW on CEMU at 1440p I still bought a Switch for the real experience.

[ravenshrike]

3 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

And Nintendo's legal department has an aneurysm in 3...2...

Between this and the earlier modchip announcement which exploits a hardware flaw in the Tegra X1, oh yeah.

[MeDownYou]

I wonder if anyone has gotten tegra chips to do native, that would be 

[GoodBytes]

So in other words, a blank window that does nothing beside run ARM standard CPU instructions and called it "Switch emulator" to try and get media attention.

How about making something more meaningful beside one of the many ARM-CPU based emulator?

When they'll get a game running to some OK level, NOW we will be talking, and now you can claim "Switch emulator".

 

Me too, I can show you the full source code of a emulator for Nintendo next 5 generations of consoles in the future from now:

int main() {
  while (1) {
  	sleep(100);
  }
  return 1;
}

I know I am amazing.. it doesn't do anything yet.. but it is open source, so it will eventually do something. But for now, enjoy the black window.

[descendency]

Can someone explain (I'm slow... I guess) why someone would want an emulator (for consoles) that can't play console games? 

[straight_stewie]

10 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

And Nintendo's legal department has an aneurysm in 3...2...

If they would stop being assholes and just release PC ports of all their games anyway then there wouldn't be a problem

But it's been a loooooonnnnnngggggggggggg time since I've used an emulator. 

[Drak3]

1 hour ago, descendency said:

Can someone explain (I'm slow... I guess) why someone would want an emulator (for consoles) that can't play console games? 

Because it's the first step to having an emulator that's better than the console.

[BachChain]

1 hour ago, descendency said:

Can someone explain (I'm slow... I guess) why someone would want an emulator (for consoles) that can't play console games? 

Because development doesn't start with a finished product.

[Scruffy90]

12 hours ago, Blebekblebek said:

I've never heard nintendo going full retard regarding the emulators, downloading games/iso yes, but not emulators

All these NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, NDS, 3DS had working emulator.

 

 

They have thrown a shit fit int he past with the original DS. One of the emulators at the time was able to connect to office Nintendo Network Servers for multiplayer (forgot what it was called back then)

[Sfekke]

2 hours ago, straight_stewie said:

If they would stop being assholes and just release PC ports of all their games anyway then there wouldn't be a problem

But it's been a loooooonnnnnngggggggggggg time since I've used an emulator. 

The reason they still exist is because they force us onto their propitiatory hardware.

Like it or don't that's Nintendo. Is the hardware robust/great? That is an opinion.

[Sfekke]

5 minutes ago, Scruffy90 said:

They have thrown a shit fit int he past with the original DS. One of the emulators at the time was able to connect to office Nintendo Network Servers for multiplayer (forgot what it was called back then)

A modified version of DSemu could easily do that, before they shut the network down that is.

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, Scruffy90 said:

They have thrown a shit fit int he past with the original DS. One of the emulators at the time was able to connect to office Nintendo Network Servers for multiplayer (forgot what it was called back then)

CEMU can do that right now, it's fairly convoluted but it works.

 

Basically you need a real Wii U which is signed into an NNID then you have to boot a CFW with a R/W kernel patch and dump all the files from the console that contain the NNID user information.

 

After that you import said files into CEMU and it connects to the Nintendo network.

 

Iirc there was an unofficial fork of Dolphin than could also do it however it didn't last long, the Devs dropped it when the Dolphin team made it clear they wouldn't be upstreaming the code into main builds.

[Trik'Stari]

5 hours ago, straight_stewie said:

If they would stop being assholes and just release PC ports of all their games anyway then there wouldn't be a problem

But it's been a loooooonnnnnngggggggggggg time since I've used an emulator. 

Or if they were smart, stop making consoles and just switch to PC and maybe handhelds.

 

Although If I'm honest I could not possibly care less about handhelds or mobile gaming in general.

[Princess Luna]

18 hours ago, Coombzy said:

Saw this coming a mile off, the Switch uses a Tegra chip which is essentially tablet hardware and easily emulated. I still prefer playing my games on the hardware its intended for though.

Not every one is into buying a console but might still have fun with those games... I don't see why not... I particularly don't like Nintendo but amulating PS1 and PS2 on my PC allowed me to have quite the fun with my old classics.

[Master Disaster]

3 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Not every one is into buying a console but might still have fun with those games... I don't see why not... I particularly don't like Nintendo but amulating PS1 and PS2 on my PC allowed me to have quite the fun with my old classics.

That's fair enough but Switch games aren't classics, it's a current gen system and the hardware and software are both still on sale.

 

I'm all for emulation to allow old games to be played by new audiences but the large majority of users interested in Switch emulation are in it for pirating new games.

[mynameisjuan]

30 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

That's fair enough but Switch games aren't classics, it's a current gen system and the hardware and software are both still on sale.

 

I'm all for emulation to allow old games to be played by new audiences but the large majority of users interested in Switch emulation are in it for pirating new games.

I am pretty much on the same page with you. I like emulators but only past the consoles life time. Any excuse for using it other than pirating is pretty much out the window. 

[michaelocarroll007]

23 hours ago, Coombzy said:

Saw this coming a mile off, the Switch uses a Tegra chip which is essentially tablet hardware and easily emulated. I still prefer playing my games on the hardware its intended for though.

Yeah typically unless its 10 years later thats the best experience.

  Playing SNES N64 NES ect with a 8 Bitdo controller is pretty good.

 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

I'm all for emulation to allow old games to be played by new audiences but the large majority of users interested in Switch emulation are in it for pirating new games.

The alternative excuse would be "but muh homebrew development"

 

Yeah sure. Tell me a killer homebrew app that doesn't provide some functionality one of my other bazillion "smart" devices provides and I might actually believe that excuse.