Nintendo Switch Emulators?

The two mainstream ones are out of development. I live under rocks, but not so many rocks that I don't know this.

I was hoping for either a backup of them as they were, or some fork(s) that continued development.

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I use Arch BTW, so I just use ryujinx from the AUR. The upstream git repo was updated to one that is in active development and is working better than ever.

Here are the latest stable releases for all platforms

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- Wait, they revived Ryujinx? Wonder if it has all of the patches that didn't get merged before the shutdown...
  
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  From the repo:
  
  This fork is intended to be a QoL uplift for existing Ryujinx users. This is not a Ryujinx revival project. This is not a Phoenix project.
  
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Suyu, it's the continuation/fork of Yuzu:
https://suyu.dev/

Also Azahar, the continuation/fork of Citra:
https://azahar-emu.org/

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- Suyu is just a renamed Yuzu.
  
  As soon as Yuzu wrecked by Nintendo; They took the source code, changed the name to Suyu and then done little to no changes to it.
  
  They also caused lots of drama within their own Discord. One of the people who were involved, left because of threats, issues with the “developers” and overall childish behavior.
  
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  Oh did not know that, sad to hear.
  
  They did remove traffic to the old Yuzu domains though, which now are in the hands of Nintendo, used to monitor which users use emulators.
  
  Do you have other suggestions for promising successor forks?
  
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  What about sudachi?
  
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  Should I take this to mean Suyu hasn't been and isn't going to actually have updates and continued development? Basically making it the same as the version of Yuzu I still have installed on my PC (which was the last official update before the takedown)?
  
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It's sad that Nintendo has so much money that these devs keep caving, when they legally have a right to develop an emulator as long as they're not distributing them with title keys and such.

I think a major reason they went so hard on this issue is the rumors that Switch 2 will have largely similar hardware and backward compatibility, including use of the same type of cartridges. As such emulating Switch 2 could easily just be a simple continuation of the work on the original Switch and it's going to be a bad deal when their brand new system can be emulated on day one of release.

Personal opinion, it's the natural result of them keeping their systems so low-end for so long, emulation of them is just easier than emulation of a PS5 or an Xbox. (do you even have to emulate xbox? aren't they technically UWP windows apps?)

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- Totally agree. I think another crazy thing is that Nintendo knows how easy it is to emulate their latest games when developers are doing it without source code legally.
  
  Like imagine if nintendo just saved the effort and money they otherwise would spend on R&D, manufacturing, shipping, and promotion, litigation on new consoles every so often and just released an official emulator instead. It would be so much better for the environment to let people use their own hardware and they could just focus mostly on making games.
  
  At minimum, they could do both and have an option to sell games to people that don't want another device to play media that their current devices already are capable of. And slowly phase out the console.
  
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  The whole point of consoles is to have an easy to use out of the box experience. As soon as 3rd party hardware gets involved, that goes out the window. Look at the epic failure of steam boxes. Rumors are that the next iteration will be first party hardware for exactly this reason.
  
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I used the links in https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page to get the latest builds

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Hope this works and is allowed:

https://pastebin.com/kFxD9kjg

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There are still torrents of yuzu and ryujinx going around.

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I've been playing using the latest forks setup on the Fitgirl torrents of Switch games. Started with The new Zelda and Unicorn Overlord, then grabbed some other games. The folder comes with a launcher to both emulators, I customized the whole thing to be my own Switch central, and updated the Ryujinx build with the last "official" one on the Internet Archive.

Other than that, this thread has good recommendations for followup projects to both. The megathread has places to download the games themselves individually.

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You can find the last appimage/flatpaks of yuzu on archive.org, they still work fine

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What platform would you perhaps be interested in?

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- PC. Linux & Windows. The former for me, the latter for a friend.
  
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