Yuzu (emulator)
Yuzu, stylized as yuzu, was a free and open-source emulator of the Nintendo Switch. Yuzu was announced to be in development on the 14th of January 2018,[1][2] 10 months after the Nintendo Switch came out.[3] It is developed in C++.
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| Developer(s) | Tropic Haze LLC |
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| Initial release | January 14, 2018 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, macOS (unofficial) |
| License | GNU GPLv2 |
| Website | yuzu-emu |
| CPU | Minimum: Intel i3-6100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Recommended: Intel i5-8600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
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| Memory | Minimum: 8GB RAM Recommended: 16GB RAM |
| Graphics | Minimum: OpenGL 4.5 support or Vulkan 1.1 such as an Intel HD Graphics 530 or Nvidia GeForce GT 710 Recommended: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 8GB |
The emulator was made by the developers of the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra. Both programs use a lot of the same code. At first, Yuzu only supported test programs and homebrew, but as of July 2019, a small amount of games work without any issues.[4][5][6][7] A list of games that work with Yuzu is updated on Yuzu's official website.[8]
On the 26th of February 2024, the Yuzu Emulator officially went down because of Nintendo suing them for 2.4 million dollars. In response, Tropic Haze LLC deleted its GitHub and official websites. Since the emulator was open source, copies have been made and hosted on various file sharing platforms. Usually, these copies are given different names to somewhat disassociate itself from the original. One example that has become very popular is Suyu (pronounced "sue you"). These copies mean you can still use Yuzu even though the people that used to make it no longer do. Other people now work on it instead, but people don't like their work because it is very slow.
Features
changeYuzu used a network service called Boxcat instead of Nintendo's BCAT dynamic content network.[9]
Yuzu allows the resolution to be changed to that of various resolutions matching or exceeding the Nintendo Switch's capabilities.[10]
In December 2019, Yuzu added an experimental Vulkan renderer to its Early Access build.[11] As of April 2020,[12] this Vulkan renderer is being used with MoltenVK to continue making Yuzu for MacOS because Apple discourages the use of OpenGL in MacOS.
On May 9, 2020, the development team announced an update that included experimental multi-core CPU emulation.[13][14]
Reception
changeIn October 2018, Kotaku published an article saying Super Mario Odyssey was playable. The author of the article showed concern Yuzu could emulate games that were available commercially at the time.[7]
PC Gamer said Yuzu was able to run Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! shortly after the games came out, but with audio issues.[6]
In October 2019, Gizmodo published an article saying Yuzu could emulate some games at a frame rate at about the same speed as a real Nintendo Switch.[15]
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ Lilly, Paul (January 15, 2018). "Nintendo Switch 'Yuzu' Emulator Announced By Citra 3DS Developers". HotHardware. Archived from the original on October 31, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Reisinger, Don (January 16, 2018). "Nintendo Won't Be Happy About This Switch Emulator". Tom's Guide. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Horti, Samuel (2018-01-14). "Switch emulator announced, made by team behind Citra 3DS emulator". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on 2018-01-14. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
- ↑ Lilly, Paul (November 2, 2018). "Super Mario Odyssey Fully Playable On PC With Yuzu Emulator Likely Drawing Nintendo's Wrath". HotHardware. Archived from the original on January 24, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ↑ Evangelho, Jason (April 19, 2018). "2 Nintendo Switch Emulators Are Live And Running Gameplay". Forbes. Archived from the original on April 22, 2018. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Horti, Samuel (November 24, 2018). "Watch Pokémon: Let's Go running on PC thanks to Yuzu emulator". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Plunkett, Luke (November 2, 2018). "Super Mario Odyssey is Already Playable in an Emulator". Kotaku. Archived from the original on July 14, 2019. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
- ↑ "Games Compatibility List". yuzu emulator team. Archived from the original on December 7, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
- ↑ "Boxcat". yuzu emulator team. Archived from the original on October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
- ↑ "Resolution Rescaler · yuzu". yuzu. Archived from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ↑ CaptV0rt3x (December 3, 2019). "New Feature Release - Vulkan". yuzu emulator team. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ @yuzuemu (April 1, 2020). "With a Vulkan renderer in place, we decided to test out building yuzu with MoltenVK! MacOS support is in an early state, but the results are surprisingly good so far! 3D games aren't working quite yet, but this is further than we were yesterday" (Tweet). Archived from the original on April 23, 2020 – via Twitter.
- ↑ "New Feature Release - Prometheus · yuzu". yuzu. Archived from the original on 6 September 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ↑ Palumbo, Alessio (9 May 2020). "Yuzu, the Nintendo Switch Emulator, Can Now Take Advantage of Multicore CPUs". Wccftech. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ↑ Liszewski, Andrew (October 4, 2019). "This Nintendo Switch Emulator for the PC Might Finally Be as Good as the Actual Console". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on November 20, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
Other websites
change- Game compatibility list Archived 2021-12-07 at the Wayback Machine