After Yuzu got shut down I’m not sure what this leaves people with for switch emulators. I’m going to try and find archives and will update the post when I do.
Last windows build: archive.org
Slightly older, but has linux and mac builds archive.org
Okay there we go, a github mirror: https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx
Do we have hashes anywhere to verify that installer?
Ended up just building it myself–actually super fast and painless, much to my surprise. Literally just updated my .NET SDK, ran the build command and it finished in under a minute.
How’s Suyu going? Nintendo is fucked up beyond all recognition sending goons to a guy’s house for daring to make an emulator for their shitbox proprietary slop
“offered an agreement”
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Is it just me or does their download page not work anymore? Also, kinda funny Nintendo is going balls out at the end of the console’s lifecycle lol
They pulled downloads immediately, the archive links should work. If they don’t I can upload when I get back home in a few hours.
this is a actual reason for “learn to code”. I wish I wasnt stupid
Emulation specifically is wickedly hard and there’s a reason basically every emulator has a team of dozens to hundreds of contributors and is in active development rather than capable of perfect emulation
Eh, it isn’t black magic. It’s just very labor intensive to nail down the broadest degree of compatibility possible. Requires tons of testing, and eternal vigilance against regressions (i.e. fixing one game breaks another). The fundamental concepts are well documented, and often times already available in generic implementations (CPU emulators / JIT recompilers / OpenGL / Vulkan implementations / compatibility layers, input libraries, etc). A project like WINE (famously not an emulator) is a lot more complex than a virtual machine which just runs the official binary system firmware.
Not to say it is easy, but it is an interesting subject with tons of literature and free software implementations to study. It has a lot of moving parts, but part of doing effective software development is understanding you don’t need to roll your own JIT recompiler when llvm and gcc-jit exist. Most contributors will specialize more or less in one thing (cpu architecture / graphics / audio / networking / debugging / reverse engineering / etc).
Implementing a CHIP-8 is a good way to get into emulation:
