Homebrew About switch emulator on pc

[StarTrekVoyager]

full emulation will never happen, it will most likely use dynarec or whatever thing to "simulate" the Switch.

 

[Somario]

Usually a PC must be 5x - 10x times powerfull compared to the console ancd the most important component is the CPU. For example, for the Wii U emulator is better to have an high MHZ cloch of the CPU than have a best graphic card.

As oppostite of what people might think, Zelda Breat of the Wild on PC emulator is VERY BETTER than switch version. You can play at 4K resolution, 60 FPS (or over if your PC is powerfull enought) and tere's a lot of fix and graphics improvements made by comunity.
look at this!

With the last CEMU 1.10.0f you can play BotW very cool, fast and smoth than Switch.

I would also like to give an additional answer....for now there are not many games for Switch and those announced have come out / will also come out for PC (excluded Nintendo game like Mario, very killer app of the console). Maybe the Switch emulator will be the PC without emulator?

 

[nmkd]

full emulation will never happen, it will most likely use dynarec or whatever thing to "simulate" the Switch.

Doesn't matter, CEMU is mostly HLE too

 

[dinoson631]

i have a good feeling we will see a switch emu before a hacked switch, also i've been trying to sell my 1070 for $320 new open-boxed on offer up and i get nothing but scammers and lowballers. $320 is a fantastic price right? Still has the warranty so idk wtf is going on

 

[nmkd]

i have a good feeling we will see a switch emu before a hacked switch, also i've been trying to sell my 1070 for $320 new open-boxed on offer up and i get nothing but scammers and lowballers. $320 is a fantastic price right? Still has the warranty so idk wtf is going on

Are you serious?

You can't make a Switch emu before having a hacked Switch.

 

[dinoson631]

Are you serious?

You can't make a Switch emu before having a hacked Switch.

welp...the crazy thing is i actually thought about that before typing this but decided to type it anyway xD i kinda mean not hacked in the way that we can't load games but your point is still very valid

 

[nmkd]

welp...the crazy thing is i actually thought about that before typing this but decided to type it anyway xD i kinda mean not hacked in the way that we can't load games but your point is still very valid

Well, technically we already have a Switch emu (Mephisto/CTU) but I guess you're talking about games.

 

[zoogie]

A little bit of a hype update maybe:

@subv2112 and I have had a busy weekend... more coming soon! pic.twitter.com/OdLdZdbVF6

— bunnei (@notfunnei) January 9, 2018

The size of that screenshot ~720p, from the head Citra dev, reswitched logo, hmmm....

 

[Spectral Blizzard]

A little bit of a hype update maybe:

https://twitter.com/notfunnei/status/950817906455171072

The size of that screenshot ~720p, from the head Citra dev, reswitched logo, hmmm....

Holy shit!
Switch emulation before homebrew could actually be a thing
Hell yeah!

 

[CallmeBerto]

I would say min

10th Gen Intel CPU to get very good frames
GPU is not really import for emulation. Easy get away with a 1060

 

[Nezztor]

A little bit of a hype update maybe:

https://twitter.com/notfunnei/status/950817906455171072

The size of that screenshot ~720p, from the head Citra dev, reswitched logo, hmmm....

Maybe because is arm like 3ds is going to be easy for them who knows

 

[MasterJ360]

Also depends on the emulation build I couldn't run stabel 30fps until they gave CEMU hyperthreading . Never liked the speedhack b/c it just speeds up everything including cutscenes

 

[KazoWAR]

since the switch uses basically an off the shelf Tegra, i don't think it would be too hard to emulate that, most of the hard part would come from the emulation of the underlying OS/syscalls that games use and the communication between the Tegra chip and other components.

 

[lordelan]

At first, i'll tell you, I'm not delusional, I know we won't see a switch emulator before a couple of year
What I want to know is, what kind of pc would we need in order to run open world games such as breath of the wild and super mario odyssey? Do you think we will need something not released yet like gtx 1280?
or maybe it would be a cpu probleme?
can somebody tell me what pc specs will be required to run, for example, super mario odyssey at lik 30-40 fps
Again, im not asking for an emulator
It's pure curiosity

I really don't wanna offend you bro but this thread is really pointless for now as absolutely no one can tell you yet what would be needed.
Most likely you would need hardware that's not even released yet for the first few versions of an emulator as it keeps improving over months after release.
On the other hand the Switch isn't that much more powerful than the Wii U. It's "just" an Android tablet hardware sided so as the emulator progresses, it will pretty much run with today's hardware at some point. But as you said this will take years I guess.

(and tbh I don't really care as I'm one of the lucky guys to own a Switch )

 

[FliP0x]

For emulation, you will need a cpu with very good single core performance.

CEMU is a good indicator of what might be required, but I wouldn't bet on it as Switch might be different. 3DS runs on ARM as well (idk about Wii U) so the "base" is already there.

Tegra is a Nvidia GPU and the same architecture (I believe it's Pascal?) exists on PC, so drivers shouldn't be a problem. I believe the Switch will be emulated sooner than expected due to the existence of CEMU and Citra. Performance will depend on optimization.

I wouldn't consider BotW on CEMU as a matching point for possible Switch Emu requirements, as CEMU, even though still in Alpha stage, is already a very well developed and optimized emulator.

 

[Somario]

A lot of Switch future games will be available (or they ALREADY available) for PC so the Switch emulator for PC it's the PC itself.

 

[FliP0x]

3rd party games yes, but the nintendo platform has a bunch of exclusives, eg. Zelda, Pokemon, Super Mario, Kirby, Mario Kart, Super Smash etc.

 

[thomasnet]

You'd need to emulate a Tegra and an ARM processor at the same time.
The Tegra is a chip still broadly used today so NVIDIA won't allow anybody to emulate it.

 

[SoslanVanWieren]

You'd need to emulate a Tegra and an ARM processor at the same time.
The Tegra is a chip still broadly used today so NVIDIA won't allow anybody to emulate it.

Not to mention it would take a very expensive pc to emulate it. more then cemu and cirta so its not worth emulating current gen consoles because of how powerful and expensive your processor would need to be.

 

[Owenge]

but i though botw on switch has better graphics than wii u version

Ha Nintendo made sure the game ran the same on both the wiiu and the switch, that's why you don't have a map on the wiiu's game pad.