Emulation:Switch
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The Nintendo Swtich is a hybrid video game console released by Nintendo on March 3, 2017. It is the 8th-generation video game consoles.
The Switch is a hybrid video game console, being able to switch between Handheld Mode on-the-go, and Docked Mode for home video gaming. The Switch is powered by an Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC with 4 GB of unified system memory (LPDDR4). It utilize the proprietary, flash-based game card as its game media format, and has 32 GB of internal storage. Its primary controllers are the Joy-Cons.
The updated models, the Switch Lite and the Switch OLED, were released on September 20, 2019 and October 8, 2021 respectively. The Switch Lite is a traditional video game handheld, with buttons and joysticks integrate onto the handheld itself. The Switch OLED has the LCD screen replaced with a OLED screen. Both models were powered by an updated Nvidia Nvidia Tegra X1+ SoC, with the OLED model having a 64 GB of internal storage.
Below is a list of emulators on PC that can play the Nintendo Swtich game titles.
General information
- Switch at Emulation General Wiki
Emulator(s)
yuzu
Key points
- Open-source.
- Windows and Linux only, MacOS support dropped.
- No longer in active development due to a lawsuit settlement with Nintendo.[1]
General information
Ryujinx
Key points
- Open-source and is curently in active development.
- Windows, Mac, and Linux supported.
- Progress is very fast and can run some commercial games very well (depending on your setup).
- Has a built-in auto-updater.
General information
Game streaming app(s)
SkyNX
- Homebrew App for Nintendo Switch allows streaming PC games with audio to switch at 60fps.
- Optionally disable video and audio to use the JoyCons as controllers on PC.
- Handles up to 8 JoyCon pairs.
- Motion control support for Cemu.
- Allows use Analog sticks and triggers to control mouse or gyro to control mouse like a Wii remote.
- Built in Nvidia/AMD/Intel encoding for low latency. Optionally sets desktop resolution for max performance.
- Optionally swap A and B AND X and Y (like Xbox Input).
- Handles basic touch input: right click (touch with 1 finger, tap with the second) and scrolling (2 finger scroll).
switch-remote-play
- Application is inspired by the github project In-Home-Switching and SkyNX. The goal is to make a convenient streamer/client application to be used to remote play PC games on the switch.
- No system crashing when going to sleep (stream will disconnect though and application is closeable).
- Desktop application to host remote connection stream.
- Stream input from the switch to remote connection.
- Stream audio from remote connection to the switch.
- Automatically connect switch and PC stream applications.
- Automatically mute PC when audio is streaming to the Switch.
- Allow manual configuration of switch to PC connection.
- Disconnect / Reconnect stream at will.
- Toggle Input Mode to Mouse, DS4(PS4) controller or Xbox controller.
- Rich configuration options for h264 CPU encoder and h264 AMF encoder (AMD hardware encoder).
- Multiple controller support.
- Touch screen emulate mouse support.
- Controller gyro support and controller rumble support are still not implemented.
References
- ↑ Nintendo wins $2.4M in Switch emulator lawsuit, Yuzu to shut down - Polygon - last accessed on 2024-03-04