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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.
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, or any kind of even remotely performant processing [...] by design". It was then revealed that A couple of months later, members of both the [[Citra]] and [[Dolphin]] teams were already working on announced the release of [[yuzu|their own emulatorwritten in c++]] in secret, followed by which was capable of booting some homebrew applications; within a couple of weeks yet another developer releasing an emulator named [[Ryujinx]], written in c# by developer gdkchan, was released showing successful booting of commercial Switch games Puyo Puyo Tetris and Sonic 3.
==Emulators==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+PC
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Operating SystemPlatform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
! colspan="5"|PC / x86
|-
|[[yuzu]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux}}
|[https://yuzu-emu.org/downloads/ Nightly]
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[Ryujinx]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux, |macOS}}
|[https://ryujinx.org/#/Build Nightly]
|{{✓}}
|{{~✓}}|-|NSEmu|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://github.com/RKX1209/nsemu Git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}
|-
|[https://githubgbatemp.comnet/RKX1209threads/nsemu NSEmusphinx-nintendo-switch-emulator.517276/ 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 1.0.4]
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[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:An open-source cross-platform emulator made by the [[Citra]] team. yuzu has seen it's development pace grow extremely fast during 2018 to the point that certains games are now fully playable.<refnormal;">([https://yuzu-emu.org/game/ yuzu - Compatibility listcompatibility] )</refsmall> Some 2D games now show correct graphics and sometimes good speed. Some 3D games are playable but almost none is running full speed.: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 An open- 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 continually work to improve the source emulator compatibility and made by many of [[Emulation Accuracy|accuracyCitra]]'s developers. Note that top tier Hardware As it is required to get decent speed in most games at the moment.;[[Ryujinx]]:An open-source public domain emulator programmed in C#. Compared to a hard fork of Citra it's early days<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5rwaENaDLQ Ryujinx shares many of its traits, namely cross- This Emulators Progress is INSANE] platform support and the use of OpenGL (Jul 24, 2018though unlike Citra it also supports Vulkan)</ref>, it has now slower development than yuzu but seems to focus on full system accuracy. Most Many 2D games are now booting despite of confortable render graphics properly and at good speeds and some ; many 3D games are showing graphicsplayable.;This emulator currently offers early access builds to $5/month [[SphiNXEmulators on Patreon|Patreon]]:A closed-source emulator in subscribers which allows them to utilize new features prior to their eventual release on the work since late July/August 2018mainline build. It can boot some homebrews as well as the title screen One of one commercial game. This yuzu's notable features is more a one man project its disk-based shader cache for personal training at OpenGL, negating the need to compile shaders on the momentfly on every boot.
;[[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.
Both Ryujinx ;SphiNX:A closed-source emulator that was announced & released in September 2018. It was shown booting some homebrews as well as the title screen of one commercial game. The project appears to be dead at this time, with no known updates in over two years. ;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:Claimed the first spot in getting games running on Android. 81 titles are purported to work, and yuzu the rest are sharing 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 between themselves to grow fasterfrom yuzu in a disallowed manner.
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