Yuzu

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Yuzu

Developers
	Team Yuzu
	Tropic Haze
Release dates
Windows	January 14, 2018

Yuzu is a discontinued open-source video game console emulator developed and released by Team Yuzu. It emulates the Nintendo Switch.

Development of Yuzu was first announced on January 15, 2018. Unlike most open-sourced emulators, updates were first released as timed-exclusives (Named Early Access) to Patreon donors for about a week before they were released to the public.

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 removed any hosted copies of Yuzu, which also includes Yuzu's Github page (effectively removing Yuzu's codebase). However, there is an unofficial build that provided Early Access releases of Yuzu prior to the closure that is still up.

General information

yuzu Website

yuzu Compatibility List

Switch Mods

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
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
Download mods for the desired game. Right click on the game in yuzu and open Mod Data Location (alternatively %YUZU_DIR%/load/<title_id>). Extract each mod in its own directory within the Mod Data Location.

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
Windows	%APPDATA%\yuzu\config\ <path-to-game>\yuzu-windows-msvc\user\config\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\yuzu\nand\user\save\0000000000000000\<user-id>\ <path-to-game>\yuzu-windows-msvc\user\nand\user\save\0000000000000000\<user-id>\

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off/On/Relaxed.
60 FPS		Game dependent. It is possible to force a higher framerate by setting "Limit Speed Percent": some games have minor/no issues, others speed up, others don't react at all. Some problematic games have mods.
120+ FPS		It is possible to force a higher framerate by setting "Limit Speed Percent": some games have minor/no issues, others speed up, others don't react at all. Some problematic games have mods.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
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

XInput-compatible controllers
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.
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, and support for motion control depends on the Switch game titles.
Button/gesture prompts

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Up to 8 Input Devices

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Italian
Polish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	4.6
Vulkan	1.2

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	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
	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.