Nintendo Switch emulator: Yuzu now loads a handful of commercial games
Yuzu running Cave Story. Not everything’s perfect yet 🙂
The open source Nintendo Switch emulator is making significant progress, and the developers announced today that Yuzu can now run a few commercial titles. This is the first step in supporting a broader list of games moving forward.
The titles that have been confirmed to boot so far are:
- The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+
- Puyo Puyo Tetris
- Cave Story+
Note that the games “boot” and there’s no guarantee at this point that they are in a very playable state. Specifically, the developers say:
Right now, most games won’t run, and the games that do run will run incredibly slow and only get so far before encountering issues.
This is still a very cool milestone for an emulator that targets a console from the latest generation! Can’t wait to see what comes next.
The team says their next steps are to boot more games, and try to emulate the GPU in order to improve speed and rendering accuracy.
Download Yuzu Switch emulator
The Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu can be downloaded on the official site here. Get the canary builds to get the latest and greatest (not reviewed) features.
Source: Yuzuemu
Yum, dat juicy 7fps emulation… lol
The only serious post on this page. Children read “muh free gaems” and do not understand anything anymore.
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Ladies and gentlemen the average user of this site has spoken.
Barely a year old and we’ve gotten a working emulator already? Wow
It’s a nearly stock tegra system. It’ll be one of the easiest to emulate, really.
Not really. Try Zelda and it wont work on this emulator at least for 5 or 6 years later. I am not excite yet anyway.
It will be easy to Emulate. Its a Stock Standard ARM System. There are already good working ARM Emulators out there. So the Hardware Part of the Emulation is something that is already working. They just need to Emulate the Software Subset to run the Games.
“This is still a very cool milestone for an emulator that targets a console from the latest generation! Can’t wait to see what comes next."
I don’t know if Nintendo can come at them in any type of legal way, if they can what will “come next" would probably be some type of C&D. We’ll see what happens. To the people working on this project, keep up the amazing work.
Chad
I don’t think Nintendo has any ability to take legal action. The emulator (Probably) is not bundled with any element of the Switch what-so-ever. It simply emulates the hardware.
That’s similar to Microsoft suing VirtualBox because people use it to run pirated Windows or something.
Thank goodness Nintendo used an exotic memory chip for games, it sure slowed piracy alright and was well worth the premium and hamstringing of devs.
lol you have no idea what you’re talking about.
^lol – You seem to be the only non-ape in here. Hi!
Lol you’re joking right? It’s completely hacked in less than a year.
What about Ryujinx ?
https://github.com/gdkchan/Ryujinx