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Hello there, I've been working on this for a few days and I thought I'd finally show it off!

Please note that there is absolutely no graphics, only console output! Also, it's not very fast (only runs at 15fps on a SD625) and it only runs old homebrew (e.g. first libtransistor tests and such).

Discord support: https://discord.gg/fn8VV9T
Source code: https://github.com/Cyuubi/MonoNX

Credits:
Ryujinx Team - For the base of MonoNX, without them this would not be possible! Show them some love over at their GitHub (https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx).
Xamarin - For allowing us C# developers to program on Android.
Dr.Hacknik - Logo design.

Requirements:
An ARM64 or 64-bit x86 processor

Play Store download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyuubiapps.mononx
Alternative APK downloads: https://github.com/Cyuubi/MonoNX/releases
Test ROM download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cVa5BDn1w6FNb6QEKmch2m6k67t_q5c_

 

[PawsofHorror]

Holy Kittens, I can play Pokemon Let's Go Meowth on my Samsung Galaxy s10+ with your emulator!

Edit: Not that this wonderful emu needs any improvements but when is the next update?

 

[PawsofHorror]

Is this abandoned? 3ds emulation is kinda getting there on Android but we don't have any Switch emulators which play games

 

[ParzivalWolfram]

Is this abandoned? 3ds emulation is kinda getting there on Android but we don't have any Switch emulators which play games

You, uh... you do know that not only is PC Switch emulation not great yet, but that this emulator is gonna be harder than hell to develop as Android's pretty thoroughly locked down (without a sometimes-complicated process that not everyone's gonna do), provides nearly no direct GPU access, and that Android OEMs like to add very little RAM to devices?
(My Huawei Ascend XT² has 2GB of real memory, and around 400MB usable by apps. The Switch has like 4GB of RAM.)

 

[ZachyCatGames]

The Switch has like 8GB of RAM.)

Retail and EDEV have 4gb and SDEV has 6gb. But your point still applies.

 

[ParzivalWolfram]

Retail and EDEV have 4gb and SDEV has 6gb. But your point still applies.

thanks for the correction tho

 

[Silithas]

the discord link has expired.

 

[PawsofHorror]

You, uh... you do know that not only is PC Switch emulation not great yet, but that this emulator is gonna be harder than hell to develop as Android's pretty thoroughly locked down (without a sometimes-complicated process that not everyone's gonna do), provides nearly no direct GPU access, and that Android OEMs like to add very little RAM to devices?
(My Huawei Ascend XT² has 2GB of real memory, and around 400MB usable by apps. The Switch has like 4GB of RAM.)

Since when is RAM important in emulation?

My medium range huawei phone which I bough 2 years ago for 160€ has 3gb ram and I have 10000 tabs opened in chrome and have 1gb free.

Flagships usually have 4-6gb ram minimum but again ram was never that important but CPU and GPU and those Snapdragon 855 series can run Wii games with x2 or higher resolution at 60 fps, ps2 games run very fast in Damonps2 and Citra mmj runs Pokemon Ultra moon very fast while being in such early stage.

Mikage and official Citra/Citra mmj might run 3ds games at full speed in x2 resolutions by 2021

 

[MK73DS]

Since when is RAM important in emulation?

My medium range huawei phone which I bough 2 years ago for 160€ has 3gb ram and I have 10000 tabs opened in chrome and have 1gb free.

Flagships usually have 4-6gb ram minimum but again ram was never that important but CPU and GPU and those Snapdragon 855 series can run Wii games with x2 or higher resolution at 60 fps, ps2 games run very fast in Damonps2 and Citra mmj runs Pokemon Ultra moon very fast while being in such early stage.

Mikage and official Citra/Citra mmj might run 3ds games at full speed in x2 resolutions by 2021

Did you ever use Yuzu on your PC ? RAM is important, lots of games currently require more than 8GB of RAM, some of them even more than 16 (like Xenoblade Chronicles 2).

 

[ParzivalWolfram]

Since when is RAM important in emulation?

My medium range huawei phone which I bough 2 years ago for 160€ has 3gb ram and I have 10000 tabs opened in chrome and have 1gb free.

Flagships usually have 4-6gb ram minimum but again ram was never that important but CPU and GPU and those Snapdragon 855 series can run Wii games with x2 or higher resolution at 60 fps, ps2 games run very fast in Damonps2 and Citra mmj runs Pokemon Ultra moon very fast while being in such early stage.

Mikage and official Citra/Citra mmj might run 3ds games at full speed in x2 resolutions by 2021

If you have less RAM than the console you're emulating, emulation's not gonna go so well. 3GB of RAM isn't enough to store everything the Switch needs, and games WILL rely on the full VRAM and WRAM amounts. This isn't even taking things like read buffers or the emulator itself into account, then add to that your phone's OS and drivers and other programs running and system buffers and...

Swap/pagefile may get the job done, assuming you have the storage for it, but storage mediums are hundreds of times slower than even the slowest RAM you'll find today. Yes, even SSDs.

 

[spotanjo3]

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Hello there, I've been working on this for a few days and I thought I'd finally show it off!

Please note that there is absolutely no graphics, only console output! Also, it's not very fast (only runs at 15fps on a SD625) and it only runs old homebrew (e.g. first libtransistor tests and such).

Discord support: https://discord.gg/fn8VV9T
Source code: https://github.com/Cyuubi/MonoNX

Credits:
Ryujinx Team - For the base of MonoNX, without them this would not be possible! Show them some love over at their GitHub (https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx).
Xamarin - For allowing us C# developers to program on Android.
Dr.Hacknik - Logo design.

Requirements:
An ARM64 or 64-bit x86 processor

Play Store download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyuubiapps.mononx
Alternative APK downloads: https://github.com/Cyuubi/MonoNX/releases
Test ROM download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cVa5BDn1w6FNb6QEKmch2m6k67t_q5c_

Discord invited invalid!

 

[PawsofHorror]

Did you ever use Yuzu on your PC ? RAM is important, lots of games currently require more than 8GB of RAM, some of them even more than 16 (like Xenoblade Chronicles 2).

If you have less RAM than the console you're emulating, emulation's not gonna go so well. 3GB of RAM isn't enough to store everything the Switch needs, and games WILL rely on the full VRAM and WRAM amounts. This isn't even taking things like read buffers or the emulator itself into account, then add to that your phone's OS and drivers and other programs running and system buffers and...

Swap/pagefile may get the job done, assuming you have the storage for it, but storage mediums are hundreds of times slower than even the slowest RAM you'll find today. Yes, even SSDs.

I see, I didn't knew Switch requires so much RAM nor expected it o.0

I hope the RAM requirements go lower or I will need to buy the variant of a mobile phone with the most RAM when switch emulation comes and those 12gb+ versions cost a lot

 

[lembi2001]

NOTICE: This application has been discontinued (and support will no longer be given to this application, use at your own risk!), all development efforts have been moved to our new emulator Skyline.

https://github.com/Cyuubi/MonoNX/releases

This is from their original github page

 

[PawsofHorror]

If your Skyline runs Pokemon Sword and Shield one day you can have all my money

 

[lembi2001]

Interesting discovery

I had forgotten about this until PawsofHorror commented.

Did some digging into this (please note: I am not a coder but can read text ) and found that the code for Skyline contains code belonging to an app called Lightswitch

googled for "Lightswitch apk" and found this:

https://www.malavida.com/en/soft/lightswitch/android/#gref

Now, I don't know about you but there are some striking similarities between the logo for Lightswitch and the header image of skyline.....

Make your own mind up but either the author of skyline is the same as the author of Lightswitch or someone is ripping someone else off or this app will never see the light of day as a switch emulator.....

 

[ItsKaitlyn03]

LightSwitch was renamed to Skyline.

 

[danicybart]

We encourage ctr ninja I know that little by little your emulator is going to grab games you just have to try between trial and error and not burn your head. as the same thing happened with emu psp. so cheer up that little by little you are going to grab the shiwch emulator games