Yuzu
Developers | |
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Team Yuzu | |
Release dates | |
Windows | January 14, 2018 |
Yuzu was an open-source video game console emulator developed and released by Team Yuzu. It emulate the Nintendo Switch.
Development of Yuzu was first announced on January 15, 2018.[1] Unlike most open-sourced emulators, updates are first released as timed-exclusives (Named Early Access) to Patreon donors for about a week before they were released to the public.[2]
Due to a lawsuit from and the subsequent settlement with Nintendo in March 2024, Yuzu's development team, Tropic Haze, announced that they will stop further development of Yuzu and will remove any hosted copies of Yuzu, which also Yuzu's Github page (effectively removed Yuzu's codebase). However, there is an unofficial build that provides Early Access releases of Yuzu prior to the closure.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Official website |
- macOS is no longer supported due to Apple deprecating OpenGL and their current version not supporting the OpenGL extensions required.
Essential improvements
Switch Mods
Installing mods[3] |
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Game data
- By default Yuzu uses %APPDATA% for config and save data. The config and save data locations below referring to "path-to-game" are the directories for a portable install, this can be achieved by creating a "user" folder.
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\yuzu\config\ <path-to-game>\yuzu-windows-msvc\user\config\[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\yuzu\nand\user\save\0000000000000000\<user-id>\ <path-to-game>\yuzu-windows-msvc\user\nand\user\save\0000000000000000\<user-id>\[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Options other than 16:9 stretch the screen. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Up to 8x Native (15360 × 8640) | ||
Field of view (FOV) | Depends on game, rare for first party games. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Exclusive fullscreen is also offered | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Auto, Default(?), 2-16x. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA/SMAA | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | FSR 1.0 Bilinear, Bicubic, Gaussian, Scaleforce, and Nearest Neighbor are offered as well. |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) | Off/On/Relaxed. | ||
60 FPS | Depends on the game, mods are required for 30fps titles. (Repository of Switch 60fps/GFX Cheats) | ||
120+ FPS | Mods are required, very few have them. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | Via mods | |
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | DualShock 4, DualSense, DualSense Edge DualSense Edge support with an ability to remap back buttons and FN buttons was added in a June 23, 2023 update.[4] |
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PlayStation button prompts | Via mods. | |
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | Wired only. Emulate HD rumble. | |
Connection modes | Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth), Wireless (DualShock 4 USB Wireless Adapter) |
Tracked motion controllers | Natively supported on Joy Cons, Switch Pro Controller, DualShock 4, DualSense and DualSense Edge. Other input devices with motion control support might requires workaround. | |
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Button/gesture prompts |
Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M | Up to 8 Input Devices |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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OpenGL | 4.6 | |
Vulkan | 1.2 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 | 10 1803 or newer |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-4430 AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
Intel Core i5-10400 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
System memory (RAM) | 8GB | 16GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | GeForce GT 1030 2GB / AMD Radeon RX 550 2GB | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | N/A | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-4430 AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
Intel Core i5-10400 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
System memory (RAM) | 8GB | 16GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
- CPUs lacking the FMA instruction set will produce very poor results (unless option Unfuse FMA will be set). Intel Core gen 3 series or older, AMD phenom II or older and all Pentium/Celeron/Atom CPUs will not produce optimal results.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Nintendo Switch 'Yuzu' Emulator Announced By Citra 3DS Developers - HotHardware - last accessed on [unknown]
- ↑ yuzu Early Access - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:Keith on 2023-10-10
- ↑ externals: Update sdl to 2.28.0 - Yuzu GitHub page - last accessed on June 25, 2023