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Nintendo Switch Emulator Announced for PC

Yesterday, the team behind the Citra 3DS emulator announced their new project. Yuzu, a Nintendo Switch Emulator for PC. The emulator will be able to do, "all of the things you didn't need it to do!." According to the team

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sloth33952284d ago

except being able to play the games outside anywhere you are

badz1492284d ago (Edited 2284d ago )

People just wanna play games. Portable or not

WickedLester2284d ago (Edited 2284d ago )

Then they should do the LEGAL thing and buy a Switch!

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WickedLester2284d ago

@Haurus

Get real! You know damn well the vast majority of people who download this will not be Switch owners, but rather low lifes who think they're entitled to something for nothing. White wash it all you want but you know darn well that is the truth! Yeah I'm sure Nintendo is just THRILLED to hear this news.

Imalwaysright2284d ago

WickedLester

That may very well be truth but it will be those people doing something illegal. The emulators themselves aren't illegal.

HollowKnight2284d ago

@WickedLester

You do realise those "low lifes" need a $1000 + PC builds to run the Switch emulator.
If they can afford a 1k+ PC they sure can afford a $60 game.

DarkZane2284d ago (Edited 2284d ago )

@HollowKnight

The WiiU emulator didn't take much to run at 1080p. Considering the Switch isn't that much more powerful than the WiiU and that the Switch is actually a glorified nvidia shield, it's gonna be just as easy to run the Switch emulator.

You don't need to buy a $1000+ dollar computer for this. If you're using a computer that is 7-8 years old and have anything other than your default intel video card, you can already run it fine at 1080p.

ABizzel12284d ago (Edited 2284d ago )

It was bound to happen, as beneficial as off the shelf products are for fast production, it's also the easiest way for emulators to pop up, and unfortunately as much as Nintendo tries to block it, their systems are easily emulated due to the lack of brute force a PC needs to power it, and the security Nintendo used to block it.

That being said I doubt it'll be fully ready within the next 2 years as far as full scale playability goes, and by then Switch should have a lower-end SKU if Nintendo stick to their handheld routine and be less than $200 making it an easy buy for Nintendo fans, so the impact this has will be diminished to those who had no plan on buying a Switch, but simply wanted to play Switch games, which again you should just buy the device.

I have no problem with emulation so long as you actually purchased the device during its lifecycle.

ABizzel12284d ago

@Holy

This $1,000 PC thing needs to come to an end. You don't need a $1,000 PC to do anything gaming wise. A $400 Gaming PC and a $500 gaming laptop are more than enough to game well and run emulation. Are they high end, No, but in the case of the gaming PC it's above the base PS4, and the gaming laptop is above Switch but below base XBO.

This $1,000 gaming PC rumor has to stop. You don't need a $1,000 gaming pc to game. With a $100 - $150 GTX 1050 or 1050 TI, that nasty old family computer can instantly turn into a 1080p @ 60fps High settings in nearly every game. If you want to dip your toes into PC gaming this is my recommendation. It's cheap, super easy, and you can sell the GPU and get your money back if you don't like it.

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Fishy Fingers2284d ago

Imagine a future where PCs were portable and could simply sit on your lap...

Old McGroin2284d ago

On top of your lap. What an age that will be.

WickedLester2284d ago (Edited 2284d ago )

Imagine a future where people actually pay for their shit instead of acting like a bunch of entitled parasites.

Big_Game_Hunters2284d ago

you mean without burning it?

Princess_Pilfer2284d ago

Have you never heard of a laptop?

Shiken2284d ago (Edited 2284d ago )

Not nearly as viable as a casual portable console for no where near the price. The laptop argument has always been the weakest attempt of grasping straws I have ever seen.

Fishy Fingers2284d ago

Shiken, believe quite a few people already own a laptop. Don’t think anyone is arguing that you’d buy one purely for an emulator... :/

Shiken2284d ago

Fishy

But do most people have a laptop that can run current gen games, easily accessible in a public setting, and have enough power to handle the drop in performance after about an hour of play without a power source?

Princess_Pilfer2283d ago

I'mma call bull. There are laptop/tablet things that are intended to be useable with only one hand.They fit in my purse. Unless you're trying to shove the switch in a jacket pocket, there's not much difference.

Nobody is arguing that buying a laptop and emulating a console is cheaper than buying the console. That has exactly 0 bearing on the fact that you can, in fact, have a computer that you can play anywhere.

Also, lots of people already have them for work, or use a laptop as their gaming PC and just plug it into their TV when they're at home. For those people (I'm not one of them) there's no extra investment necessary to have the portability.

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SirCupcakes912284d ago

Yea that's why I believe this really won't hinder the sales of the Switch. People who want the switch will buy the switch for its portability.

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TripleCs2284d ago

Well that was fast. The console hasn't even been out a year yet..

Ittoittosai2284d ago

Thats what happens when you juat buy someone else tech and jack the price up because you slapped Nintendo on it. The switch is juat a nividia shield period.

bow2yoda2284d ago

@ lttoittosai and its not nintendos fault at all for using inferior security in their consoles???

AnotherProGamer2283d ago

Their 3DS emulator isnt that good so I don't expect their Switch emulator would be much better

StormLegend2284d ago

Wow already? I hope this doesn't mess up sales. These gaming companies need to do something about emulators.
I would hate for any company games to get emulated. All that hard work for nothing when people can just emulate it.
I don't mind them for older games from previous gens before.

nowitzki20042284d ago (Edited 2284d ago )

Emulators are legal, roms is where it gets complicating.

ONESHOTV22284d ago

oh boo hoo, a triggered Nintendo fan dude emulation isn't illegal roms are and you talk about as if someone couldn't just go to the store and buy a new or a used copy and burn it to their PC and there you have it the way it was meant to be played. you BI-- about emulation but let used games pass as if it's any better find something better to complain about because you lost this argument

vergilxx32284d ago

" you talk about as if someone couldn't just go to the store and buy a new or a used copy and burn it to their PC"

I wonder if anyone has ever done that

SirCupcakes912284d ago

I doubt it will. It's likely to not have the full functions of the Switch. The question is how will they handle the motion control without the joycon itself? only time will tell but the people that will likely use this probably didn't intend to buy a switch to begin with.

LOL_WUT2284d ago

It was done for the WiiU so i dont see why it couldn’t be done for the Switch. Cant wait to see what they’ve come up with ;)

chris2352284d ago

thanks i already got a much more powerful console. no need to waste my time with a subpar emulator emulating subpar hardware. it‘s 2018 for god‘s sake.

ONESHOTV22284d ago

lol what console is that and the last time I checked the switch cannot play the breath of the wild in 4k or 60FPS so what's that about being superior

DwightSchrute012284d ago

Is graphics the only thing that makes a console superior. Lol
Idiot Sony fanboy logic

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Delta, a new all-in-one Nintendo emulator launches for iOS

The new Nintendo-focused emulator for the iPhone is now available with support for several classic systems.

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jznrpg1h ago

How long until they get sued and it gets taken down? I say a month or 2

PRIMORDUS44m ago

Sued for what? It's just an emulator no ROMs are with it. ROMs are easy to get anyway, but with iPhone you can't just copy and paste like Android unless it's jail broken I think. Anyway Nintendo should be more concerned with their ROMs up to torrent for years for all of their concoles, but then again they can't do nothing about it, they never will and I love it. 🤣

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If Developers Won't Save Their Games, Emulators Will

TheGamer Writes "The only way to preserve gaming history is through emulation."

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banger88284d ago

How do you preserve a game that requires a persistent internet connection? Many future games will be online-only even for single-player. We'll only be able to stream games and you'll have to be connected at all times. That's the disgusting future of gaming.

blackblades283d ago (Edited 283d ago )

That's true, MK11 for example require there server and online for even single player content. Some people out there did make a server etc for some games on a emulator I think. Maybe one day they'll upgrade emulators to be online for todays way of gaming. Also for companies to not be like nintendo

Inverno283d ago

It's possible. Take a look at PlayStation Home, it was shut down years ago and now through PS3 emulation, and emulating PSN, they've brought it back online.

DickyD1226282d ago

That whole psn revamped project is amazing.

jznrpg283d ago

Many of those games aren’t worth saving to me.
I’m sure some will be but I try to stay away from anything online only. There are old online only games that are up and running for the ones that are worthy but some will die like they should.

cammers1995282d ago (Edited 282d ago )

That's like EA and Maxis how they lied and said SimCity 2013 required a server to play because it was too powerful for our PCs but then like a couple months later a hacker made a crack to play it offline and ea shut up about it and finally made an offline mode. 🤣

Persistent internet connection is DRM. Plain and simple.

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XiNatsuDragnel283d ago

Emulators are the future of gaming because console makers aren't going to do squat imo.

Christopher283d ago

Yeah, they totally aren't going to maintain BC support for past-generation games on current-generation consoles. I can say, definitively, that this is not happening at all.

XiNatsuDragnel283d ago

It's like I'm waiting for all nintendo console games on the switch 2 I understand licensing and stuff like that but they gotta make effort or ppl will do it for them.

mastershredder283d ago

ugh…unless they own their game outright, that save/preservation bs you are spewing (the flavor of the month club) is not on them.

neomahi283d ago

This is some sticky territory because I don't buy current gen consoles for games I played yesterday. I move on. Phil Spencer and Xbox design and make THE WORLDS MOST POWERFUL CONSOLE like they have Napoleonic Syndrome and then they want to use all that power to backward compatability and games that look like they should be on the PlayStation, that's why you want the worlds most powerful console? I buy new hardware for new gaming experiences and new games. I'm hearing a lot of current gen gamers (that are older) now talking that with the elimination of physical media for a more digital audience and not letting up on DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes, and season passes, we're smarter than all that and can mic drop and leave at any time. We don't want remasters and remakes. Sure, its fun to remember when we were kids and how much easier life was, it was a simpler time, but we don't want the same old experiences, thats what nostalgia is for, no, we want something new. We want new games that push hardware and promote innovation. Not the same experience repeated over and over. Pushing emulation is just going to force developers to have to remake games over and over because they'll get pirated otherwise and then they can't focus their energy and attention on new experiences and ideas to create nostalgia for the current generation of gamers either, they'll have nothing to look back on. And all the DLC, loot boxes, microtransactions, season passes have got to stop. Maybe its just like my parents use to see when the things they had disapeared and theres just never anything I'll be able to do about it, but there was a time when you bought a game and you got everything with it. Now, before the game goes gold, they dissect it, the game goes gold and then they sell you the rest of the game to pick your pocket for more money. You really think Capcom didn't think ahead with Street Fighter 6. That they thought that at some point they'd integrate Rashid and Akuma and 4 other characters into the game when they got around to it? IF you really think that then you don't deserve to play games, their Season Pass DLC characters are already done and sitting on a HDD waiting for someone to press the upload button, it's all done and has been done and SHOULD have shipped with Street Fighter 6, but because we've gone to GAMES AS A SERVICE business models, this is what we get. Street Fighter IV on the PS3, you played and unlocked additional characters, thats how it used to be, now Capcom wants to sell them too you, but the same is said for Dead or Alive, Guilty Gear, Blazeblue, Mortal Kombat. Theyre selling you games with content you should have already gotten, but they've picked it apart to sell you the rest later for more money, That's dispicable!

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Unlock the Nostalgia: The Ultimate Guide to Downloading Old PC Games

Are you feeling nostalgic for the good old days of gaming? Longing to relive the excitement and joy you experienced while playing those classic PC games from your childhood? If you landed on this site, you probably are. Luckily, we are here for you! In this guide, we will take you on a journey down memory lane and show you how to unlock the nostalgia by downloading and playing your favorite old PC games. Whether it's the iconic adventures of Commander Keen, the strategic battles of Age of Empires, or the addictive puzzles of Myst, we've got you covered. This article will walk you through finding reliable sources and playing those games on your computer, either a PC or a Mac. So, grab your virtual time machine, dust off your floppy disks, and embark on an unforgettable gaming experience that will transport you back to a simpler time. Let's unlock the nostalgia together!

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