Emulation So what's going on with Switch emulators now?

[retrospect]

With Ryujinx and Yuzu no longer being developed, where are things at? Do the last versions of Ryujinx and Yuzu play all Switch games? Have they been forked for development to continue and how's progress? Are there other viable Switch emulators? Is there likely to be a Switch emulator for iPad given the similar architecture? Is Switch emulation simply frozen where it was?

 

[yankii]

They're all practically dead.

 

[UsernamesAreWeird]

Them playing "all games" is not realistic...

Ryujinx is on life support (see: Ryubing) and it recently left github, it is now being hosted on "git"

Yuzu has had a million forks, the most recent ones are Citron and Eden, but both are shrouded in stupid drama

 

[BlusterBong]

Them playing "all games" is not realistic...

Ryujinx is on life support (see: Ryubing) and it recently left github, it is now being hosted on "git"

Yuzu has had a million forks, the most recent ones are Citron and Eden, but both are shrouded in stupid drama

So in essence, Switch Emulation is dead and full of drama and Nintendo got exactly what they wanted in the end dispite people claiming that the hydra-like next fork and/or piracy site would sprout back up?

Say it aint so when people don't know how to keep thier mouth shut..

 

[ChibiMofo]

Is there likely to be a Switch emulator for iPad given the similar architecture?

Hello visitor from an alternate universe where Apple is using a 15 year old Nvidia architecture! Here in this universe, the iPad shares NOTHING in common with the architecture of the Switch 1 (or 2).
Please enjoy your stay.

And given how much easier it is to play Switch games on a brand new $175 Switch Lite, why should anyone bother spending all the time and resources to port one of the dead-end Switch emulators to Apple's overpriced iPad?

 

[retrospect]

Hello visitor from an alternate universe where Apple is using a 15 year old Nvidia architecture! Here in this universe, the iPad shares NOTHING in common with the architecture of the Switch 1 (or 2).

Ha. I figured them both being ARM would go some way to helping. The guy behind Ryujinx once posted on his website if he could port it to ARM Macs it should run games better than in x64 Windows, cos of the similar architectures. I figure iPads should be similar - obviously for people that already have iPads. I'm guessing he's right and you're wrong.

 

[Jayro]

Ha. I figured them both being ARM would go some way to helping. The guy behind Ryujinx once posted on his website if he could port it to ARM Macs it should run games better than in x64 Windows, cos of the similar architectures. I figure iPads should be similar - obviously for people that already have iPads. I'm guessing he's right and you're wrong.

Should be fairly easy, just needing a hardware abstraction layer to "translate" any hardware differences, like how the Switch 2 runs Switch games.

 

[Alatus]

Hello visitor from an alternate universe where Apple is using a 15 year old Nvidia architecture! Here in this universe, the iPad shares NOTHING in common with the architecture of the Switch 1 (or 2).
Please enjoy your stay.

And given how much easier it is to play Switch games on a brand new $175 Switch Lite, why should anyone bother spending all the time and resources to port one of the dead-end Switch emulators to Apple's overpriced iPad?

What a weird snarky response, especially considering you're completely wrong.

This already exists, there are 3 different ones that I know of.
They aren't in the appstore, but as long as you can sideload with extended ram entitlements + JIT they will work.

People will port DOOM to an overpriced smart fridge, but making emulators for hardware commonly owned by developers is where you'd draw the line?

 

[greator]

Switch emulator is still alive. Both PC and android. Most of them are forks of yuzu and ryujinx. Where is it? Well, that you have to google around. You know we have ninjas in here.

 

[callofcthuloo]

Citron, Eden, Sudachi, I'm literally running brand new title releases on Sudachi, unsurprisingly people here don't know shxt about what they're talking about.

Edit: No I have no idea if this runs on an iPad, but the idea 'switch emulation is dead' is easily disprovable with a fxcking google search.

 

[Ettino]

I'm using Ryubing 1.3.2 on the Mac mini m4. I would say it runs 75% of games with no issue. Some newer releases are also working fine surprisingly, Raidou Remasterd, Front Mission 3, Tony Hawk 3&4. Couldn't get Fantasy Life I to work though.

Also I highly doubt, there will be any ipad version. If the only thing you have is ipad then yeah it's dead for you.

 

[SecureBoot]

Citron has been the most consistent and successful for me but any of these forks can disappear at any time. Good news is that so far, any yuzu forks use the exact same file structure so you can copy the config between any of them easily. What I do is symlink a yuzu config folder to any new emulator I try so I have the same save games and setups

 

[retrospect]

I did find the iPad one (MelonX). It seems excellent but it needs a top-end device.

I will check out the other forks mentioned. Good to know some people have taken up the mantle. Neither A.I nor Google were any help finding out the current state of things.

 

[bobthegamer]

can you emulate on steam deck or linux?

 

[InsaneNutter]

can you emulate on steam deck or linux?

You can use EmuDeck on the Steam Deck (and other Linux distros too) to easily setup various emulators, including a couple for the Switch.

 

[TipsyTheCat]

Them playing "all games" is not realistic...

Ryujinx is on life support (see: Ryubing) and it recently left github, it is now being hosted on "git"

Yuzu has had a million forks, the most recent ones are Citron and Eden, but both are shrouded in stupid drama

it being hosted on their own gitlab instance up at git.ryujinx.app