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Emulation - Retro Gaming In Style

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A community for discussing emulation and preservation of retro games. This community is intended for discussing the art of emulation, the tooling involved and retro gaming in general; it is not intended as a dump of ROM files.

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State of the Switch? (lemmy.zip)
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So I didn't follow Switch emulation too much during its prime... and saw enough near the end (blatantly updating code to support pre-release games) that I steered clear.

When the nintendo-ing happened, most "folk in the know" more or less speculated that everything would end for a few years and we would just see a lot of re-builds of the source with either slightly different input libraries or crypto miners.

Well, it has been a few years! Did that come to pass? Is it still a case where my best bet would be to check the commit hash against a known good and build Yuzu myself? Have any reputable-ish groups taken over with a "fork"? Or alternatives arisen?

Thanks.

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

On Linux, I use Eden is it mostly works. Some games have a few bugs, but it is mostly fine. On my Android phone, the game runs but my Mediatek chip's Mali GPU doesn't have any supported drivers for Eden so I just see a black screen. I can even click on some of the buttons and get some sound, but no visual graphics at all. I believe Qualcomm chips will work much better for this. My Mediatek phone still runs everything up to 3DS fine though.

[–] MisshapenDeviate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Eden emulator has been working well with every game I have thrown at it. The newest release I have tried is Pokémon Legends Z-A.

[–] kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It’s been a little rough with XC3. Rough but playable. Just need to save frequently lol

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 3 days ago

I've been using Ryujinx Canary for Tomodachi Life, which was the only one I found that has good compatibility with the more recent Switch 1 games.

[–] Float@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago

Eden is the way to go. I play Tomodachi Life on it which is pretty recent.