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Both Ryujinx ;Egg NS:Claimed the first spot in getting games running on Android. 81 titles are known to work, and yuzu the rest are sharing either not working or assumed to fail. That's about it for positive things; the current version lacks any onscreen buttons, and instead forces users to purchase a specific controller. It also expects to run on a high-end device within the ballpark of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/855+/865/865+. Combine all that with users needing to log into their service to use the emulator, and you can imagine there was quite a controversy. The fact that it was eventually discovered to have lifted code between themselves to grow fasterstraight from yuzu (which uses a license with [[Licensing#Definition|stronger copyleft conditions]]) did not help.
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The '''[[wikipedia:Nintendo Switch|Nintendo Switch]]''' is an eighth-generation hybrid gaming console released by Nintendo on March 3, 2017 and retailed for ${{Inflation|USD|299.99 ($310.13 in 2018 money). It has a Nvidia Tegra X1 SOC (System On a Chip) with 4 ARM Cortex-A57 CPUs and 4 ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs at 1.020 GHz with 4GB of RAM. It's GPU is a Nvidia GM20B|2017}}. During its development, the Switch was known as the NX (short for NeXt or Nintendo "Cross") and 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 number of [[Android emulators|Android devices]]. The Switch contains 4 ARM Cortex-A57 CPUs and 4 ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs running at 1.020 GHz with 4GB of RAM and 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. 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 new exploit independently of each other that allowed complete control over the system, later officially recognized by Nvidia as CVE-2018-6242.
==Emulators==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Operating SystemPlatform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
! colspan="5"|PC / x86
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|[[yuzu]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux}}
|[https://yuzu-emu.org/downloads/ Nightly]
|{{✓}}
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|[[Ryujinx]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux, |macOS}}
|[https://ryujinx.org/#/Build Nightly]
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|NSEmu|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://github.com/RKX1209/nsemu NSEmuGit]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[SphiNX]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|{{✗}} (WIP)
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|Mephisto
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/reswitched/Mephisto/releases v1.2.1], [https://github.com/reswitched/Mephisto Git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|CageTheUnicorn
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://github.com/reswitched/CageTheUnicorn Git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
!colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
|-
|[https://eggns.wordpress.com Egg NS]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=15jYpgxZZKcstAqxZYg5_znDiXS41Shep&export=download 1.0.2]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[SphiNX]https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline Skyline]|Windowsalign=left|{{✗Icon|Android}} (WIP)|[https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/releases 0.3]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|}
;[[yuzu]]<small class="plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;">([https://yuzu-emu.org/game compatibility])</small>:An open-source cross-platform emulator made by the many of [[Citra]] team. yuzu has seen it's development pace grow extremely fast during 2018 to developers. It advanced so quickly the point that certains team had many games are now working fully playablein a matter of months.<ref>[https://yuzuAs it is a hard fork of Citra it shares many of its traits, namely cross-emuplatform support and the use of OpenGL (though unlike Citra it also supports Vulkan).org/game/ yuzu Top- Compatibility list] </ref> Some tier hardware is required to get decent speeds in most games at the moment; many 2D games now show correct render graphics properly and sometimes at good speed. Some speeds, many 3D games are playable but almost none is running with some even reaching full speed.:A , and a lot of Nintendo Switch exclusives games are playable already but can't be considered perfect yet.<ref>[https://twitter.com/yuzuemu/status/1057781359639490560 Yuzu - Super Mario Odyssey now playable] (Oct 31, 2018)</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/yuzuemu/status/1063573285391294465 Yuzu - Pokémon Let's Go Ingame on release day] (Nov 16, 2018)</ref>:It is known that the devs are now working on a Vulkan renderer and The development team continually work works to improve the emulator compatibility and accuracy, and offers builds that introduce new features early through [[Emulation AccuracyEmulators on Patreon|accuracyPatreon]]. Note that top tier Hardware is required to get decent speed in most games at the moment. ;[[Ryujinx]]<small class="plainlinks" style="font-weight:An open-source public domain emulator programmed in C#. Compared to it's early days<refnormal;">([https://m.youtubegithub.com/watch?v=Z5rwaENaDLQ Ryujinx/Ryujinx - This Emulators Progress is INSANEGames-List/issues compatibility] (Jul 24, 2018)</refsmall>:Another open-source emulator that's programmed in C#. Despite the differences in code, it has now slower development than the Ryujinx team shares a lot of information with the yuzu but seems to focus on full system accuracyteam. Most 2D games are now booting despite of confortable and running at comfortable speeds and some 3D games are showing graphicsplayable. It also supports resolution upscaling to 4K, though at a severe performance penalty.
;[[SphiNX]]
:A closed-source emulator that's been in the work works since late July/August 2018. It can boot some homebrews as well as the title screen of one commercial game. This is more Seems to be a one man person project for personal training at the momentmore than a fully fledged community project.
;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.
==References==
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