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|imagecaption = The Switch in its two forms, portable (above) and docked (below).
|developer = [[:Nintendo]]
|type = [[:Category:ConsolesHybrid consoles|Home Hybrid video game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles|Eighth generation]]
|release = 2017
|predecessor = [[Wii U emulators|Wii U]]
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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|2017}}. 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. 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 Mania.
==Emulators==
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
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! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
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! colspan="56"|PC / x86
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|[[yuzu]]
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|[https://yuzu-emu.org/downloadsNightly][https://github.com/ Nightlyyuzu-emu/yuzu git]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}
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|[[Ryujinx]]
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|[https://ryujinx.org/#/Build Nightly][https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx git]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}
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|NSEmu
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|[https://github.com/RKX1209/nsemu Gitgit]|{{✗✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[SphiNX]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|{{✗}} (WIP)
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|Mephisto
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|[https://github.com/reswitched/Mephisto/releases v1.2.1], [https://github.com/reswitched/Mephisto Gitgit]|{{✓}}
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|CageTheUnicorn
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|[https://github.com/reswitched/CageTheUnicorn Gitgit]|{{✓}}
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!colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
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|[https://eggns.wordpress.com Egg NS[Skyline]]
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|[https://drive.googlegithub.com/uskyline-emu/0skyline/uc?id=15jYpgxZZKcstAqxZYg5_znDiXS41Shep&export=download 1.0.2releases git]
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|{{✓}}|{{✗}}<small> (WIP)</small>
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|[httpshttp://githubwww.comeggns.xyz/skyline-emuForums/skyline Skyline?page_id=7 Egg NS]
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|[https://githubdrive.google.com/skylinefile/d/1M4kvceZGrHPsWd-emuJMFmlOEwnRxFIkHAA/skyline/releases 0view 2.1.37 Beta 2]|{{✓✗}}|{{✗}}
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;[[yuzu]]<small class="plainlinks" style="font-weight:An open-source cross-platform emulator made by the [[Citra]] team. yuzu has had an extremely fast development pace to the point that many games are now fully playable.<refnormal;">([https://yuzu-emu.org/game/ yuzu - Compatibility listcompatibility] )</refsmall> Originally only available with an OpenGL renderer, Vulkan support was added to yuzu in December 2019.<ref> [https://yuzuAn open-emusource emulator made by many of [[Citra]]'s developers.org/entry/yuzuAs it is a hard fork of Citra it shares many of its traits, namely cross-vulkan/ New Feature Release: platform support and the use of OpenGL (though unlike Citra it also supports Vulkan] </ref> ). Many 2D games now show correct render graphics properly and have at good speed. Many speeds; many 3D games are playable, and some are running at full speed.It can play almost over than 450 games at perfectThis emulator currently offers early access builds to $5/great and okay -compatability levels .A lot of Nintendo Switch exclusive games are playable already but can't be considered perfect yet.<ref>month [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 Emulators on release dayPatreon|Patreon]] (Nov 16, 2018)</ref>:The development team continually works subscribers which allows them to utilize new features prior to improve their eventual release on the emulator compatibility and [[Emulation Accuracy|accuracy]]mainline build. Note that top tier hardware One of yuzu's notable features is required its disk-based shader cache for OpenGL, negating the need to get decent speed in most games at compile shaders on the momentfly on every boot. The developers offer Early Access to new release for those who Resolution scaler support them on Patreonwas added in October 2021. ;[[Ryujinx]]<small class="plainlinks" style="font-weight:An open-source public domain emulator programmed in C#. Compared to its early days<refnormal;">([https://m.youtubegithub.com/watch?v=Z5rwaENaDLQ Ryujinx /Ryujinx-Games- This Emulators Progress is INSANEList/issues compatibility] (Jul 24, 2018)</refsmall>, it has now slower development than yuzu but seems to focus on full system accuracy:An open-source emulator that's programmed in C#. Most 2D games are now booting and running at comfortable speeds and some many 3D games are playable. Ryujinx It also supports resolution upscaling to 4K, though this requires and beyond; custom upscaling/downscaling ratios are supported. Ryujinx now has a powerful computerdisk-based shader cache.Unlike yuzu, Ryujinx does not offer packaged early access builds;[[SphiNX]]:A 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 closedsource LDN-source emulator in enabled preview build supporting local wireless multiplayer across the work since late July/August 2018. It can boot some homebrews internet, as well as the title screen LAN mode compatibility on local networks with Switch consoles on supported games. As of one commercial game. This December 2021, Vulkan API support is more a one person project for personal training at the momentstill being worked on. ;[[Skyline]] :The first attempt at an An open-source [[Compatibility layers|compatibility layer]] for ARMv8 [[Android]] emulator by [https://githubdevices.com/Cyuubi/ Cyuubi]For the sake of convenience, a developer known for the 3DS team bills the app as an emulator , but it functionally works like [https://github.com/Cyuubi/LemonLime/ LemonLime[Wine]. Originally known as [https://gbatemp.net/threads/mononx-an-experimental-nintendo-switch-emulator-for-android.531427/ MonoNX] and previously called Lightswitch, Skyline replaced running almost all of the project name due to original code on bare metal except for what interfaces with the less than admired name lightswitch (skyline being a synonym for rest of the switch operating system named horizon OS). The project had later been handed over to Pixelylon[https://github.com/PixelyIon]. This new project is being written in C++ and Java. At the moment Skyline is made to act as a compatibility layer that allows native code execution on android to remove CPU emulation overhead.:This emulator displays no graphics for commercial games, making it mostly does not useful for end-users at the moment; although sound is outputted for a few games. Further morehave any graphical output, decryption of but some games are currently not supported, do boot with audio only booting decrypted .nsp games and .nro formats.:Skyline is aimed to work for snapdragon 845 processors and newer
;Egg NS
:Similar to DamonPS2, it is closed-source payware/malware emulator only for Android. '''Itcan hardly run any games'''s and behaves very much like virus software. '''It is best to NOT use this emulator'''. Claimed the first emulator able to play spot in getting games running on [[Android]] device, able to run . 81 titles while 73 titles are still crashingpurported to work, and the rest are either not working or assumed to fail. The There is significant controversy surrounding this emulator for the following reasons: the current version of Egg NS lacks any onscreen buttons, and instead requiring requires users to purchase a Gamesir-X2 specific controller. The emulator also calls for ; it expects to run on a high-end device with within the ballpark of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/855+/865/865+. Despite the achievement, Egg NS ; '''it was however the subject of intense scrutiny and controversy due discovered to its questionable business model requiring users to spend $100 on have violated GPLv2 licensing requirements by using code from yuzu in a specific controller, a mandatory signup for disallowed manner. Made by the service, and to top it all off, GPL-licensed code stolen from Chinese illegal market.''' ==See also==* [[yuzuEmulators on Switch]].
==References==
[[Category:Consoles]]
[[Category:Handheld consoles]]
[[Category:Home consoles]]
[[Category:Hybrid consoles]]
[[Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo consoles]]
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