Switch emulation now goes both ways: PC games on Switch and Switch games on PC
Suyu, one of Yuzu's offspring conceived to keep Switch emulation alive and well on PC, recently achieved a major technical milestone. Unfortunately, the developers have also decided to stop working on the project for the foreseeable future. But new forks have already begun refreshing Suyu's code, allowing Nintendo's cat-and-mouse game... Read Entire Article
Nintendo attempted to stop Switch emulation on PC through legal action against the Yuzu developers. However, this only fueled the growth of emulation tools, with Suyu, a branch of Yuzu, achieving a significant milestone. Despite the developers deciding to halt Suyu's development, new forks have taken over, keeping the cat-and-mouse game with Nintendo's efforts alive.
The final public release of Suyu (0.04) introduced a recompiler mode that translates Arm64 native code to run natively on PCs. This new mode offers substantial performance improvements for heavier games. Suyu, now inactive, was replaced by a new team using a fresh fork and versioning scheme (0.0.10). Meanwhile, a separate project called Wine-NX aims to run older PC Windows games on a Switch console.
Wine-NX is a Wine 11 port to Horizon, the Switch's native OS, packaged for modded consoles. It utilizes Box64 emulator's dynamic recompiler to run 32-bit x86 Windows programs, achieving varying performance results with different games.
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