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Since the Switch was hacked early in its launch, there has been a lot of interest for emulators due to the Switch's portability.  These emulators will only work on Switches with CFW on them, for more information and guides on how to homebrew your Switch, or if you even can, visit [https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchHacks r/SwitchHacks].  
 
Since the Switch was hacked early in its launch, there has been a lot of interest for emulators due to the Switch's portability.  These emulators will only work on Switches with CFW on them, for more information and guides on how to homebrew your Switch, or if you even can, visit [https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchHacks r/SwitchHacks].  
  
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===Playstation Portable===
 
===Playstation Portable===
 
[https://www.patreon.com/posts/28559579 PPSSPP for Nintendo Switch] - A very work in progress emulator. It is based on PPSSPP libretro port but considered as a standalone emulator.
 
[https://www.patreon.com/posts/28559579 PPSSPP for Nintendo Switch] - A very work in progress emulator. It is based on PPSSPP libretro port but considered as a standalone emulator.
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[https://forum.xda-developers.com/nintendo-switch/nintendo-switch-news-guides-discussion--development/rom-switchroot-lineageos-15-1-t3951389/post79954954#post79954954 LineageOS 15.1 for Nintendo Switch] - not technically an "emulator", it allows your Switch to function as an Android tablet. It's based of the Nvidia Shield TV build of LineageOS, since they both use the same system-on-chip, and runs Android 8.1 Oreo.  It's most notable feature is the ability to work both in handheld and docked mode and using the Joycons as a Bluetooth controller.
  
 
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[[Category:Emulators on consoles]]

Revision as of 22:40, 29 July 2019

Since the Switch was hacked early in its launch, there has been a lot of interest for emulators due to the Switch's portability. These emulators will only work on Switches with CFW on them, for more information and guides on how to homebrew your Switch, or if you even can, visit r/SwitchHacks.

Multi-System

RetroArch - The following cores have shown to work well on the Switch and should be included:

Amstrad Cores

  • Caprice32
  • CrocoDS

Atari Cores

Commodore Cores

Game Cores

  • 2048
  • MrBoom (Bomberman)
  • NXEngine (Cave Story)
  • PrBoom (Doom)
  • Reminiscence (Flashback)
  • GW (Game & Watch)
  • Cannonball (OutRun)
  • TyrQuake (Quake 1)
  • XRick (Rick Dangerous)
  • OpenLara (Tomb Raider)

Arcade Cores

  • MAME (2000, 2003, 2003 Plus)
  • [[FinalBurn_Alpha|FBAlpha}

Misc Cores

Nintendo Cores

NEC Cores

Sega Cores

Sony Cores

Nintendo

Nintendo Entertainment System

LaiNES

pNES - based off of Nestopia

NoiES

Nintendo Switch Online - Nintendo's official service for NES games. Requires a paid subscription and is limited to the number of games provided. Rumored to be adding SNES in the near future.

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

pSNES - a port of Snes9x

Gameboy Advance

mGBA

Nintendo DS

DeSmuME-NX - there has been several attempts at porting DeSmuME to the Switch, all of which have been abandoned (including this one).

melonDS - a fork of melonDS for the Switch, still a work-in-progress.

Sega

Dreamcast

reicast

Sony

Playstation Portable

PPSSPP for Nintendo Switch - A very work in progress emulator. It is based on PPSSPP libretro port but considered as a standalone emulator.

Android

LineageOS 15.1 for Nintendo Switch - not technically an "emulator", it allows your Switch to function as an Android tablet. It's based of the Nvidia Shield TV build of LineageOS, since they both use the same system-on-chip, and runs Android 8.1 Oreo. It's most notable feature is the ability to work both in handheld and docked mode and using the Joycons as a Bluetooth controller.