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Dekopon - (Mostly) Fullspeed 3DS Emulation on Nintendo Switch

PalindromicBreadLoaf · 2026-07-16T19:11:42+00:00

Credit goes to StickyMangoRice for the logo. Dekopon is a port of Azahar to the Nintendo Switch. The current release is version 2.0.0. Performance is very title dependent, and will be improved with time, but many games can be played fullspeed right now, sometimes even with stock handheld clocks. (I do recommend at least bumping the CPU up to dev unit clocks in handheld just to reduce shader compilation stutter and smooth out some rough frame pacing.) Depending on the game, you can get up to 4x resolution scaling at full speed in docked/handheld charging (although really 3x is all you need in handheld). If you want to try any new3ds exclusive games, they won't run well. All four of the 3DS' cores run on a single emulation thread, so we're at a 1.2GHz difference (2GHz single core where as the 4 3DS cores each run at 804MHz) from what we would need (and architecture changes from 3DS to Switch cannot account for that much raw clock speed loss). The solution would be to split the emulation threads on new3DS games, but that's a ton of work for very very little gain. See here for a full compatibility chart: Dekopon Compatibility Chart Feel free to share your own compatibility findings here and I'll update the sheet accordingly. Also share any issues you have and I'll do my best to fix them. Downloads can be found here: Releases Along with the source code here: Source ROMs default location is /switch/dekopon/roms/ All formats that Azahar natively supports are supported here too. Different screen layouts can be cycled through via pressing the right stick. Pressing '+' on a game shows information about it, including updates and dlc. Enjoy! Also if someone wants to make a better UI for this I wouldn't be offended. I can't make a good UI to save my life, but the one included at least kinda functions to get you into a game.

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delson_anr said:
download love-nx
put in your SD Card: `/switch/love2d/love.nro`
download the latest Gen1Recomp .love file
put in your SD Card renamed as: `/switch/love2d/game.love`
Generate your assets file on PC, downloading the PC executable and creating a portable.txt in the project folder, this way all assets will be generated on the project folder (assets, blue, data, rom-cache.complete and portable.txt )
Get all this folders/files and copy to your SD Card in: `/switch/love2d/pokemon-love2d/`

Mods also works, you only need to create a `mod` folder and paste your extracted mod in the folder.

Omg thank you! I actually tried the portable.txt method and extracted everything on PC but I just dropped it all into the love2d folder instead of the pokemon-love2d folder. Trying this ASAP again. I had deleted it all and given up.

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