

"Yuzu, the Nintendo Switch Emulator, Can Now Take Advantage of Multicore CPUs". "Super Mario Odyssey is Already Playable in an Emulator".

"Nintendo Won't Be Happy About This Switch Emulator". "Nintendo Switch 'Yuzu' Emulator Announced By Citra 3DS Developers". In October 2019, Gizmodo published an article noting that yuzu was able to emulate some games at a frame rate roughly on par with the actual console hardware. PC Gamer noted that the emulator was able to run Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! shortly after the games' release, albeit with audio issues. The author of the article expressed concern with the ability of Yuzu to emulate games that were available commercially at the time. In October 2018, Kotaku published an article noting that Super Mario Odyssey was playable. In June 2021, Fastmem support was added to early access builds of yuzu. In November 2020, yuzu's developers added online functionality to the emulator but removed it shortly thereafter.
Nintendo switch emulator update#
On May 9, 2020, the development team announced an update that included experimental multi-core CPU emulation codenamed Prometheus. In December 2019, yuzu added an experimental Vulkan renderer to its Early Access build and brought it over to its mainline builds. Yuzu also offers a resolution rescaling feature that simulates docked, undocked and beyond-native resolutions (beyond-native resolutions are temporarily disabled due to stability issues). Yuzu uses a network service called Boxcat as a replacement for Nintendo's BCAT dynamic content network. Originally, Yuzu only supported test programs and homebrew, but as of July 2019, a handful of games work without issue.
Nintendo switch emulator code#
The emulator is made by the developers of the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra, with significant code shared between the projects. Yuzu was announced to be in development on January 14, 2018, 10 months after the release of the Nintendo Switch. Yuzu (sometimes stylized in lowercase) is a free and open-source emulator of the Nintendo Switch. Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB OpenGL 4.6 support or Vulkan 1.1 such as an Intel HD Graphics 520 or Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 Windows 7 64-bit or higher, 64-bit Linux
