So yeah, Nintendo can whine all they want, they really don't have any legal recourse. Making backups of media is legal *except* if you have to break copy-protection to do so. Random games, Super Mario Land, or GTA San Andreas.)īIOS backups are 100% legal. Makes me wonder what could have been if companies just continuously improved on games. Else a forgotten World Warrior would had been the end of it. (On a unrelated note, I like the CAPCOM has always improved on Street Fighter II. The best one was Chankast and as quickly as it came out, development stopped. It took many years after the Dreamcast was canceled for a proper emulator. (And buying it is not a requirement.) (I'm really glad more people will get to play it.)Īlso, though I'm not a big fan of current system being emulated, the Dreamcast's problem was not emulation, but piracy. They are releasing a couple of Wii U games on the Switch, such as Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, and I'm very glad for that since the Wii U sold so poorly, the game is a masterpiece, and this way many times more people will get to play it. Nintendo doesn't have anything to do with Super SFII, and if I get a Switch, I will probably get that game.

In addition to keeping check on the Yazu website, you can also follow the project’s official Twitter account to keep up with all the new developments.Īs is always the case with this sort of emulation, it’ll be interesting to see if what kind of response, if any, Nintendo issues. Yuzu will open up more Switch exclusives to PC gamers, such as the excellent Super Mario Odyssey. There’s still no word on when it will be fully up and running.īecause Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was also released on the Wii U, PC owners can try the Switch’s best game using the CEMU emulator-check out this video of the game in glorious 4K. It can boot some titles with varying degrees of success but it does not implement the necessary GPU features to render 3D graphics. Yuzu doesn’t yet run any commercial Switch games. There are builds ready and maintained for PC, Mac, and Linux, though it’s currently in its infancy and is only useful for Switch reverse-engineering and homebrew development. The emulator, which is named Yuza, is described as “experimental” and “open source” on its official website. For those PC and Mac owners eager to try out some of its exclusives without buying a console, good news: the team behind the popular Citra 3DS emulator has announced work on a new emulator for the Nintendo Switch.Īnnouncing yuzu, the first Nintendo Switch emulator that does all of the things you didn't need it to do! Stay tuned for more from the yuzu team!

So popular, in fact, that it’s now the fastest-selling game console in US history. The Nintendo Switch is incredibly popular.

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