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Revision as of 14:11, 27 January 2024

Nintendo Switch
Nintendo-switch.png
Switchdocked.png
The Switch in its two forms, portable (above) and docked (below).
Developer Nintendo
Type Hybrid video game console
Generation Eighth generation
Release date 2017
Predecessor Wii U
Emulated ✓
For software that emulates the Switch, see Nintendo Switch emulators.

Since the Nintendo 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, i.e. Switch consoles susceptible to the Tegra hardware exploit. For more information and guides on how to homebrew your Switch, or if you even can, visit r/SwitchHacks.

Alternative Operating Systems

Name Version FLOSS Active Recommended
Lakka 5.0 ✓ ✓ ✓
Switchroot Android 17.1 ✓ ✓ ✓
Switchroot Linux Various ✓ ✓ ✓

Switchroot Android

A build of Android 10 "Q" for the Switch, based on Lineage OS 17.1. Since it shares the same Nvidia Tegra X1 system-on-chip, the build is based off the Nvidia Shield TV build of LineageOS. Its most notable feature is the ability to work both in handheld and docked mode and using the Joycons as a Bluetooth controller (though not all apps may detect them correctly). There is also another build that lets the Switch function as an Android TV box. Many emulators and Android software can run, including DraStic, Dolphin, and Citra.

Switchroot Linux

Many GNU/Linux distributions are available, including Ubuntu Bionic and Focal, Fedora, and Gentoo. With these, it is possible to run many emulators and software for GNU/Linux on these systems. Play! has had some success with playing PS2 games on Ubuntu, albeit at around 10 FPS.

Emulators (Multi-Systems)

Arcade

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
MAME-NX (based on MAME 0.72) git ✓ ✓ Mid ~
pFBN (based on FinalBurn Neo) git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓

RetroArch

Stable

Nightly

GitHub

Switch RetroArch Cores

RetroArch BIOS/ROMs

Available cores
Cores Game/System list Recommended Working?
PPSSPP PlayStation Portable ✓
PCSX ReARMed PlayStation 1 ✓
DeSmuME DS ~
MelonDS ~
Gambatte GameBoy/GameBoy Color ✓
Gearboy ✓
TGB Dual ✓
mGBA GameBoy Advance ✓
VBA Next ✓
FCEUmm NES/FDS ✓
Nestopia ✓
QuickNES ✓
Mesen
Mupen64Plus N64 ✓
PokeMini Pokemon Mini ✓
Snes9x 2010 & Current SNES ✓
Bsnes
bsnes-hd
Mesen S
Beetle VB Virtual Boy ✓
MAME 2000, 2003, 2003 Plus ✓
FBAlpha Arcade ✓
Neko Project II Kai (猫Project II改) PC9801 ✓
Beetle PCE FAST PCE/PCE CD ✓
Beetle PC-FX PC-FX ✓
Beetle SGX SuperGrafx ✓
Flycast Dreamcast ✓
GearSystem MasterSystem/GameGear ✓
Genesis Plus GX MasterSystem/GameGear/MegaDrive/Genesis/CD ✓
PicoDrive MasterSystem/GameGear/MegaDrive/Genesis/CD/32X ✓
Yabause Saturn ✓
4DO 3DO ✓
P-UAE Amiga Series ✓
Beetle WonderSwan [Cygne] WonderSwan/Color ✓
DOSBox MS-DOS ✓
Vecx Vectrex ✓
O2EM Odyssey2 / Phillips Videopac+ ✓
FreeIntv Intellivision ✓
fMSX MSX ✓
NeoCD Neo Geo CD ✓
Mu Palm OS ✓
EasyRPG RPG Maker 2000/2003 ✓
PX68k Sharp X68000 ✓
ScummVM point-and-click adventure game engine ✓
EightyOne (81) Sinclair - ZX 81 ✓
Beetle Neo Geo Pocket [NGP] Neo Geo Pocket / Color ✓
Theodore TO8D ✓
FUSE ZX Spectrum ✓
Caprice32 CPC/CPC464 ✓
CrocoDS ✓
Stella Atari 2600 ✓
ProSystem Atari 7800 ✓
Beetle Handy Atari Lynx ✓
Virtual Jaguar Atari Jaguar ✓
VICE C64 ✓
MrBoom Bomberman ✓
NXEngine Cave Story ✓
OpenBOR Open BOR Game Engine ✓
PrBoom Doom ✓
Reminiscence Flashback Game Engine ✓
GW Game & Watch ✓
Cannonball OutRun ✓
TyrQuake Quake ✓
XRick Rick Dangerous ✓
OpenLara Tomb Raider ✓

Emulators (Single system)

Atari

Atari 130 / 800 / 5200

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Atari800-switch git ✓ ✗ Mid ~

Commodore

Amiga

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
UAE4All2 git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓

Microsoft

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Bochs git ✓ ✗ Low ✗
DOSBox-switch git ✓ ✗ Mid ~

Nintendo

Nintendo 64

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
GlideN64

(old RetroArch core)

3.0 ✗ ✗ Mid ✗
Nintendo 64 - Nintendo Switch Online N/A ✗ ✓ Low ~

Nintendo DS

Name Version FLOSS Active DSi Accuracy Recommended
DeSmuME-NX 0.0.3 ✓ ✗ ✗ Low ✗
melonDS (fork of melonDS) R6fix1 ✓ ~ ~ Mid ~
NooDS rolling ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ✗ (WIP)

melonDS standalone includes a JIT compiler so it's generally faster than its retroarch counterpart

Nintendo 3DS

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Citra POC ? ✓ ? ~

Nintendo Game Boy / Color

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Game Boy - Nintendo Switch Online N/A ✗ ✓ Low ✓
khedgb Update 7 ✗ ✗ Low ~
mGBA 0.10.3git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓
PlutoBoy git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓

Nintendo Game Boy Advance

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Game Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online N/A ✗ ✓ High ✓
gdkGBA git ✓ ✗ Low ✗
mGBA 0.10.3git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓
Switch-gba git ✓ ✗ Low ✗
VBA-M NX git ✓ ✗ Low ✗
VBA-Next git ✓ ✗ Mid ✗

Nintendo Game & Watch

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
MADrigal Switch
(includes RetroArch 1.8.5, the gw-libretro core version 1.6.3 and all 59 games) 		10-05-2020 ✗ ✓ Mid ~

Any recent RetroaArch release includes direct G&W support through the handheld-electronic core which should be a better choice. You can even download the games with the online updater on retroarch itself.

Nintendo NES Nintendo Entertainment System / Family Computer Disk System

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
LaiNES git ✓ ✗ Mid ✗
NESwitch git ✓ ✗ Mid ✗
Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online 2.3.0 ✗ ✓ Mid ✓
NoiES git ✓ ✗ Mid ✗
pNES (based on Nestopia) git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓

Nintendo SNES Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
pSNES (based on snes9x) git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓
Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online 3.4.0 ✗ ✓ Mid ✓

SEGA

Dreamcast

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Flycast CI Buildsgit ✓ ✓ Mid ✓
reicast Alpha ✗ ✗ Mid ~

Genesis / Mega Drive

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
pGEN (based on Genesis Plus GX) git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓
SEGA Genesis - Nintendo Switch Online N/A ✗ ✓ High ✓

Saturn

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Yaba Sanshiro (Yaba三四郎) 2.2.0 ✗ ✓ Mid ~

Sony

Playstation

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
DuckStation git ✓ ✓ Mid ✓
PCSX-ReARMed git ✓ ✗ Low ✗

PlayStation 2

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Play! git ✓ ✓ Low-Mid ✗

PlayStation Portable

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
PPSSPP 1.9.3+ ✓ ✓ Mid-High ✓

PlayStation Vita

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Vita2hos git ✓ ✓ Low-Mid ✗

SNK

Neo Geo Pocket / Color

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Neopop-SDL v0.2 ✓ ✗ Mid ✗

x86 CPUs

Name Latest Version 8086*¹ 286 386*² 486*³ Pentium*⁴ Pentium II*⁵ Celeron*⁶ Pentium III*⁷ Pentium 4*⁸ FLOSS Active Recommended
UniPCemu itch.io ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ?

*¹8086 emulation includes the 8088 CPU. *²386 emulation includes the SX and SL. *³486 emulation includes variants. *⁴Pentium emulation includes variants. *⁵Pentium II emulation includes variants. *⁶Celeron emulation includes variants. *⁷Pentium III emulation includes variants. *⁸Pentium 4 emulation includes variants.

Fantasy computers

Chip-8

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
AXChip8 1.0 ✓ ✗ Mid ✗
Chip8-NX 0.3 ✓ ✗ Mid ✗
Swip8 1.0.0 ✗ ✗ Mid ✗

Pico-8

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Fake-08 v0.0.2.20 ✓ ✓ Mid ✓

Source ports

Multi game engine

Name Version FLOSS Libretro Active Recommended Supported game(s)
Commander Genius 2.6.3.1 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy, Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter
EasyRPG 0.8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ RPG Maker 2000/2003 games
MegaZeux 2.93 ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ Caverns of Megazeux and multiple ZZT style ascii games
OpenBOR git ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ Pak mods
ScummVM 2.8.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Adventure games and RPGs (LucasArts, Sierra, Activision, Humongous & more. Over 250 games.)

Single game engine

Name Version FLOSS Libretro Active Recommended Supported game(s)
Action-adventure
Ship of Harkinian 8.0.4
Nighty build
git 		✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (any PAL version)[N 1]
Zelda3 git ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Pinball
SpaceCadetPinball git ✓ ✗ ? ✓ 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
Platformer
Cave Story Engine 2 Website
git[N 2] 		✗ ✗ ✗[N 2] ? Cave Story
NXEngine-evo git ? ✗ ✗ ? Cave Story
RVM Sonic CD git ✓ ✗ ? ? Sonic the Hedgehog CD (2011)[N 3]
Sonic 1 and 2 (2013) git ✓ ✗ ? ? Sonic the Hedgehog 1 (2013)[N 3], Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2013)[N 3]
Sonic 3 A.I.R. (Angel Island Revisited) Website ✗ ✗ ? ? Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
Sonic CD (2011) git ✓ ✗ ? ? Sonic the Hedgehog CD (2011)[N 3]
Sonic Robo Blast 2 v2.2.11 ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ Sonic Robo Blast 2
smw git ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ Super Mario World
Racing
SRB2Kart git ? ✗ ? ? Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart
RPG
DevilutionX git ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ Diablo
OpenMW (unofficial) git ✓ ✗ ✓ ~ The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Sim - City-building
Julius
Augustus (gameplay changes) 		git
git 		✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ Caesar III
TBS
Fheroes2 git ✓ ✗ ✓ ~ Heroes of Might and Magic II
Visual Novel
ONScripter-jh git ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ Visual Novel
  1. ↑ As of v8.0.0, Ship of Harkinian supports any PAL ROM of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo 64 or GameCube (SoH Compatibility Checker to check if your ROM is supported). Launch the PC version and locate the ROM to generate an oot.otr file and place it in the soh Switch app folder. Additionally and optionally, you can load the PAL version of the Master Quest version in the PC version to create an oot-mq.otr to add another game mode.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 There is also an official Nintendo Switch remake called Cave Story+ with 3D graphics and the most features out of any other existing version (making it the "definitive version") that may be more recommendable depending on the user's preference. Cave Story Engine 2, or CSE2 for short, is a source port of the classic Cave Story by Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya. CSE2 came with a portable version and an enhanced version of the original freeware but in November 2020, the CSE2 source port has received a DMCA cease and desist notice from Nicalis, the current IP owner of Cave Story, and the unofficial Switch port received a DMCA cease and desist as well.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sega Forever classics version on Android or iOS can also be used.

Streaming

Name Version FLOSS Active Accuracy Recommended
Moonlight-NX git ✓ ✓ Mid ~
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