Yuzu is the first Nintendo Switch emulator for PC
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Not a year has passed since the Nintendo Switch hit the market and the community is already working on what will be the first emulator of the Nintendo hybrid console. The emulator in question is called Yuzu and is being developed by the same team that works on Citra, the Nintendo 3DS emulator.
Nintendo Switch already has an emulator called Yuzu
Yuzu is an open source emulator project, this means that anyone can access the source code of the project to consult it or make modifications. Even Nintendo itself can do this to verify that none of its licenses is being infringed.
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For now Yuzu is in a very early stage of its development, which means that it is still far from being able to run console games, emulation is something very complex and complicated so there is no way of knowing when it will be ready for run the first games stably.
In favor of Yuzu we have that the Nintendo Switch is based on a Tegra X chipset that has been on the market for a long time and many details are known, this will undoubtedly make the emulation much easier so it might not happen much time until we see games like Super Mario Odyssey running on a PC.
Overclock3d fontyuzu is an open source Nintendo Switch emulator, licensed under GPLv2 (or any later version) that has been designed with portability in mind, with versions available for Windows, Linux and macOS. The project was started in the spring of 2017 by bunnei, one of the original authors of the popular Citra 3DS emulator, to experiment 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 the shared enhancements. During the first months of development, work was done privately, and progress was slow. However, as Switch's reverse engineering and homebrew development became popular, work on yuzu began to take off as well.
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The Yuzu emulator has managed to make some of the simplest games on the Nintendo Switch work, although for now they are unplayable.
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