Citra 3DS Emulator Developers Announce Nintendo Switch Emulator

The team behind the Citra Emulator for Nintendo 3DS has announced a new emulator for Nintendo Switch on Twitter. For now, the emulator called Yuzu is only suitable for developers and no official games are running yet.

The makers indicate that they do not yet know how fast the emulator is able to run games from the Nintendo Switch. The team says that making an emulator for the console is very complex, but significant progress is being made.

At the moment Yuzu is able to start up certain non-commercial games, such as homebrew games, but that still comes with the necessary problems and it is not yet possible to render the graphics in 3d.

Yuzu is still in its infancy and can now only be used for reverse engineering the Switch and for self-developed programs, the makers report on the Github page. It is planned that Yuzu will eventually support Windows, Linux and macOS.

The project was started in the spring of 2017 by one of the original developers of Citra, an open source emulator for the Nintendo 3DS from 2014. Recently, more members of the team behind Citra have focused on developing Yuzu. With Citra it is possible to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.