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The emulator has received positive reception on its ability to play Wii U games on PC at higher resolutions than 1080p, the base resolution of the console, via the usage of community graphics packs. For example Mario Kart 8 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild can be run in 4K resolution on compatible hardware.
Ryujinx, written in C#, was the first Switch emulator to boot commercial games. [6] [7] In April 2018, it was reported that it was initially able to play part of Cave Story. [6] According to the creator, gdkchan, Ryujinx has a focus on correctness, rather than adding game-specific hacks as is done by some console emulators. [8]
On April 25, 2023, Ryujinx was featured in PC Gamer alongside now-discontinued open-source emulator Yuzu ahead of the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. [9] Following the release of the game, PC Gamer released a follow-up article on a number of fixes implemented to improve emulation. [19]
Ship of Harkinian is an unofficial source port of the 1998 Nintendo 64 video game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. It was first released in March 2022 for Windows, four months after Ocarina of Time's source code was decompiled and released.
Dolphin was the first GameCube emulator that could successfully run commercial games. After troubled development in the first years, Dolphin became free and open-source software and subsequently gained support for Wii emulation. Soon after, the emulator was ported to Linux [28] and macOS. [29]
The first commercial Nintendo 3DS game to be run by Citra was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. [10] [11] Citra has been able to emulate audio since May 21, 2016, [12] and has had a JIT compiler since September 15, 2016. [13] In November 2017, Citra announced networking support for the emulator. [14]
Yuzu (sometimes stylized in lowercase) is a discontinued free and open-source emulator of the Nintendo Switch, developed in C++.Yuzu was announced to be in development on January 14, 2018, [1] [2] 10 months after the release of the Nintendo Switch.
The emulator became free software under the GPL-2.0-or-later license on 2 April 2001. Despite an announcement by adventure_of_link in 2009 stating that "ZSNES is NOT dead, it's still in development", made on the ZSNES board after the departure of its original developers zsKnight and _Demo_ , [ 1 ] development has slowed dramatically since its ...