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|title = Atari VCS / Atari 2600Nintendo Switch|logo image = Atarinintendo-2600-Wood-4Sw-Setswitch.png|image2 = switchdocked.png|imagecaption = The Switch in its two forms, portable (above) and docked (below).|developer = [[:Atari|Atari, Inc.Nintendo]]|type = [[:Category:ConsolesHybrid consoles|Home Hybrid video game console]]|generation = [[:Category:SecondEighth-generation video game consoles|Second Eighth generation]]|release = 1977|discontinued = 19922017|successor predecessor = [[Atari 5200 Wii U emulators|Atari 5200Wii U]]

}} The '''[[gametechwikipedia:Atari 2600Nintendo Switch|Atari 2600Nintendo Switch]]''' (also known as '''Video Computer System''' or simply '''VCS''') is a secondan eighth-generation hybrid gaming console released by [[wikipedia:Atari|Atari]] Nintendo on September 11March 3, 1977. It 2017 and retailed for {{Inflation|USD|199299.99|19772017}} . During its development, the Switch was known as the NX (short for NeXt or Nintendo "Cross") and had was widely speculated up until its announcement. Aside from specialized components unique to the console, the hardware is more or less off-the-shelf, being built around a semi-custom variant of Nvidia's Tegra X1 system-on-a-chip which was also used on a 6507 CPU number of [[Android emulators|Android devices]]. The Switch contains 4 ARM Cortex-A57 CPUs and 4 ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs running at 1.19 MHz 020 GHz with 128 bytes 4GB of RAMand a proprietary GPU codenamed GM20B. While Nintendo intended to step up the security of the console, vulnerabilities were still found early on that allowed tons of system files to be dumped, including dumps of games in the form of romfs.istorage archives, an exefs folder, and license files. It These game dumps eventually got shared online by scene groups except for their licenses but were missing important files to run and even if they had been completed, there were no custom homebrew apps let alone solutions to load unofficial game dumps for the system. A number of prominent hacking teams (starting with shuffle2 and fail0verflow in collaboration) all came across a 160x192 16new exploit independently of each other that allowed complete control over the system, later officially recognized by Nvidia as CVE-color2018-6242. A "debugging emulator" for the Nintendo Switch, CageTheUnicorn (now [https://github.com/reswitched/Mephisto Mephisto]), popped up not long after the first components were dumped. It was designed to emulate sysmodules with "no support for graphics, sound, input, out or any kind of even remotely performant processing [...] by design". A couple of 128months later, displaymembers of both the [[Citra]] and [[Dolphin]] teams announced the release of [[yuzu|their own emulator written in c++]], which was capable of booting some homebrew applications; within a couple of weeks yet another emulator named [[Ryujinx]], written in c# by developer gdkchan, was released showing successful booting of commercial Switch games Puyo Puyo Tetris and Sonic Mania.

! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]! scope<abbr title="colFree/Libre and Open-Source Software"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]>FLOSS</abbr>

! colspan="76"|PC / x86|-|[[Stella]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://stella-emu.github.io/downloads.html {{StellaVer}}]|{{✓}} ||Cycle ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[MAME]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]|{{✓}} ||Cycle ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|Z64K|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.z64k.com/ Beta 3.0]|{{✗}} ||Cycle ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[Pantheon]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/News.htm {{PantheonVer}}]|{{✗}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[https://github.com/ppeccin/javatari.js javatari]<br />[https://github.com/ppeccin/javatari javatari.js (old)]|align=left|{{Icon|Web}}|[http://javatari.org 5.0.3]|{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[https://alienbill.com/2600/ z26]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html 4.07]|{{✗}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

|[http://pcae.vg-network.com/ PCAE[yuzu]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|DOSLinux}}|[httphttps://pcae.vgyuzu-networkemu.comorg/ 2.6downloads Nightly]<br />[httphttps://www.bjarsgithub.com/emulatorsyuzu-emu/pcaewin_2.7.zip 2.7yuzu git]|{{✗✓}} ||High ||{{✗✓}} ||{{~✓}}

|[[Clock Signal|CLKRyujinx]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://ryujinx.org/#/Build Nightly][https://github.com/TomHarte/CLKRyujinx/releases {{clkver}}Ryujinx git]|{{✗✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗✓}}

|[http://emu7800.sourceforge.net/ EMU7800]NSEmu

|[[sourceforgehttps:projects/emu7800/filesgithub.com/emu7800RKX1209/|1.8]nsemu git]|{{✗✓}} ||Mid ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

|[[BizHawk]]Mephisto|align=left|{{Icon|WindowsLinux|macOS}}|[httphttps://tasvideosgithub.orgcom/BizHawkreswitched/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}Mephisto/releases git]|{{✗✓}} ||? ||{{✓✗}} ||{{✗}}

|StellaratorCageTheUnicorn

|[https://github.com/dpiponireswitched/Stellarator GitCageTheUnicorn git]|{{✗✓}} ||? ||{{✓✗}} ||{{✗}}

|Gopher2600|align!colspan=left|{{Icon"10"|Linux}}|[https://github.com/JetSetIllyMobile /Gopher2600 Git]|{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}ARM

 ! colspan="7"|Mobile / ARM|-|Stella<ref group=N name=libretro />|align=left|{{Icon|Andriod|iOS|Linux}}|3.4.1|{{✓}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|2600.emu|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.A2600Emu 1.5.2.8[Skyline]]|{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|Ataroid

|[https://wwwgithub.emuparadise.mecom/emulators/filesskyline-emu/userskyline/com.androidemu.atari-5-1.0.4-691.rar 1.0.4releases git]|{{✗✓}} ||? ||{{✗✓}} ||{{✗}}<small> (WIP)</small>

|g2600[https://eggns.wordpress.com Egg NS]

|[https://dl3drive.apk4nowgoogle.com/129491file/4c38c3024e2030259293b809d4ae2eb1adedb189d/com.goodgorgon.play2600.apk 7.1RygOcWDULuwoGSORDrtCXHHof1KoldKO/view 2.0]|{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|-! colspan="7"|Console|-|Stella<ref group=N name=libretro>''Only available on consoles and mobile as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).''</ref>|align=left|{{Icon|PS3|PSP}}<br>{{Icon|Wii|3DS|Switch}}|3.4.1|{{✓}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|PSP2600|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}|[http://www.mediafire.com/?tg4y5d25djkzwca 1.2.06 Beta 5]|{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}|-|Wii2600|align=left|{{Icon|Wii}}|[https://github.com/raz0red/wii2600/releases/download/0.2/wii2600-0_2.zip 0.2]|? ||? ||? ||?|-! colspan="7"|Other|-|1FPS Atari 2600 Emulator|Minecraft Datapacks|[https://sethbling.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Downloads/Builds/15seconds.zip 0.2]|{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}|-

;[[yuzu]] <references groupsmall class=N "plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;">([https://yuzu-emu.org/game compatibility])</small>:An open-source emulator made by many of [[Citra]]'s developers. As it is a hard fork of Citra it shares many of its traits, namely cross-platform support and the use of OpenGL (though unlike Citra it also supports Vulkan). Many 2D games now render graphics properly and at good speeds; many 3D games are playable. This emulator currently offers early access builds to $5/month [[Emulators on Patreon|Patreon]] subscribers which allows them to utilize new features prior to their eventual release on the mainline build. One of yuzu's notable features is its disk-based shader cache for OpenGL, negating the need to compile shaders on the fly on every boot. Resolution scaler was disabled some time ago due to bugs, but in July 2021 work on reimplementing resolution scaler has started. ;[[Ryujinx]] <small class="plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;">([https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx-Games-List/issues compatibility])</small>:An open-source emulator that's programmed in C#. Most 2D games are now booting and running at comfortable speeds and many 3D games are playable. It also supports resolution upscaling to 4K and beyond; custom upscaling/downscaling ratios are supported. Ryujinx now has a disk-based shader cache. Unlike yuzu, Ryujinx does not offer packaged early access builds; however work-in-progress features can still be tested by using Appveyor builds or building locally from unmerged pull requests. Separately, Ryujinx has released a closed source LDN-enabled preview build supporting local wireless multiplayer across the internet, as well as LAN mode compatibility on local networks with Switch consoles on supported games. As of August 2021, Vulkan API support has been added. ;Skyline:An open-source [[Compatibility layers|compatibility layer]] for ARMv8 [[Android]] devices. For the sake of convenience, the team bills the app as an emulator, but it functionally works like [[Wine]], running almost all of the original code on bare metal except for what interfaces with the rest of the system. At the moment Skyline does not have any graphical output, but some games do boot with audio only. ;Egg NS:Similar to DamonPS2, closed-source payware/malware emulator only for Android. '''It can hardly run any games''' and behaves very much like virus software. '''It is best to NOT use this emulator'''.Claimed the first spot in getting games running on Android. 81 titles are purported to work, and the rest are either not working or assumed to fail. There is significant controversy surrounding this emulator for the following reasons: the current version lacks any onscreen buttons and instead requires users to purchase a specific controller; it expects to run on a high-end device within the ballpark of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/855+/865/865+; '''it was discovered to have violated GPLv2 licensing requirements by using code from yuzu in a disallowed manner. Made by the Chinese illegal market.'''

==External links=====Internet Archive=See also==* [https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_library Console Library: Atari 2600]* [https://archive.org/details/atari2600manuals Console Manuals: Atari 2600Emulators on Switch]* [http://www.atarimania.com/rom_collection_archive_atari_2600_roms.html Atari 2600 VCS Reference Set (Complete ROM Hunter v15 Collection) ]

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