How to play Nintendo Switch games on your PC

Two emulators have gotten Nintendo Switch titles running on PC, sort of.

If you're casually familiar with emulators, you've probably played classic titles on something like ZSNES or VisualBoy Advance or similar. These incredible programs allow people to play games on PC that wouldn't otherwise be playable on PC, and are responsible for our continued enjoyment of titles that cost hundreds of dollars to track down anymore. Emulating modern games is a different animal, though.

Because of the complexity of modern systems, it is much harder to create a working emulator that will allow you to play these games on PC. The Nintendo Switch falls into this category of difficult-to-emulate modern systems, so don't expect to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild perfectly on your PC. But some incredible emulation work has already begun, and a few Switch games are already booting and running on PC via two programs: yuzu and RyujiNX.

Wait, Nintendo Switch games on PC?

RyujiNX and yuzu are emulators that are currently being developed to run Nintendo Switch games, beginning with homebrew programs. Both have made considerable progress in the last year and are now able to boot and run a few games. It's ... admittedly not an ideal experience, but it's some dang cool tech.

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