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Emulation on the Switch isn't going dark.

EmuSwitch is a free, open-source emulator launcher for Switch homebrew. 3DS games run built in, and ten more consoles open from the same menu.

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Free and open sourceStill in testing
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0menu for all of it
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ONE MENU

Your whole library, sorted by console.

Home shows every game with its box art, grouped the way you'd shelve them. Pick one and EmuSwitch opens it in the right emulator.

  • 3DS
    Built in3DS games run inside EmuSwitch, with save states, cheats and per-game settings.
  • +10
    Packed inTen more consoles open in the emulators that come with EmuSwitch. Nothing else to install.
  • ART
    Box art by itselfCovers download while you're online, or pick your own from the SD card or SteamGridDB.
EmuSwitch's Home screen: games grouped by console, each with a cover.
EmuSwitch's Settings, with the main settings on each page.
CONSOLES

Eleven consoles, one menu.

Put games you own and dumped yourself in their console's folder on the SD card, and they show up on Home.

BUILT IN
3DSNintendo 3DSEmuSwitch's own 3DS emulator/switch/dekopon/roms/
PACKED IN
DSNintendo DSRetroArch (DeSmuME)/roms/ds/
GBGame Boy / ColorRetroArch (Gambatte)/roms/gb/
GBAGame Boy AdvanceRetroArch (mGBA)/roms/gba/
NESNESRetroArch (Nestopia)/roms/nes/
SNESSuper NintendoRetroArch (Snes9x)/roms/snes/
N64Nintendo 64RetroArch (Mupen64Plus-Next)/roms/n64/
PS1PlayStationRetroArch (PCSX ReARMed)/roms/ps1/
PS2PlayStation 2ARMSX2-NX, with your own BIOS/roms/ps2/
PSPPSPRetroArch (PPSSPP)/roms/psp/
Wii UWii UCemu-nx/roms/wiiu/
THEMES

42 themes, from Midnight to Terminal.

Pick one in Settings, Themes. It recolours the menus and the in-game quick menu together. These are the real colours from the app.

Click a theme to try its colours on this page.

Midnight
Graphite
Ocean
Crimson
Forest
Sunset
Sakura
OLED Black
Aurora
Lavender
Mint
Amber
Neon
Synthwave
Arctic
Nightshade
Mocha
Ruby
Emerald
Sapphire
Gold
Copper
Lava
Deep Sea
Twilight
Slate
Rose Gold
Matcha
Tangerine
Grape
Ice
Galaxy
Monochrome
Pocket Green
Cherry
Royal
Candy
Jungle
Dusk
Terminal
Desert
Plum
SETUP

Ready in a few minutes.

You need a Switch that runs homebrew. There's nothing to sign up for.

  1. Download EmuSwitch.nroFrom the latest release on GitHub.
  2. Copy it to /switch/On your SD card, next to your other homebrew.
  3. Add your gamesEach console has its own folder. A PS2 BIOS from your own console goes in ps2/, and decrypted 3DS CIAs in roms/cia/ or cias/ install themselves.
  4. Open it from the Homebrew MenuUpdates install later from Settings, General.
sdmc:/
├── switch/
│   ├── EmuSwitch.nro        the app
│   └── dekopon/roms/        3DS games
├── roms/
│   ├── ds/  gb/  gba/
│   ├── nes/  snes/  n64/
│   ├── ps1/  ps2/  psp/   PS2 BIOS goes in ps2/
│   ├── wiiu/
│   └── cia/                 CIAs install themselves
└── cias/                    or here
FOR THE 3DS

Everything you'd want from a 3DS emulator.

  • Save states from the quick menu
  • Save backups in Checkpoint's format, to and from a real 3DS
  • Cheats, mods (LayeredFS) and texture packs
  • Real amiibo, or .bin amiibo files
  • 1080p docked and resolution upscaling
  • Frame generation with LSFG
  • Screen layouts on R3, with a custom layout editor
  • Touch with a pointer, and full gyro
  • Per-game settings and full button remapping
  • USB drives for your games
  • Updates itself from Settings
  • Delete a game from its + menu
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Made by adxmm
An independent project: one developer, no company behind it.
INDEPENDENT DEVELOPER

Built on the work of Azahar, Dekopon by PalindromicBreadLoaf, NXVK, ARMSX2-NX, Cemu-nx, RetroArch and its cores, and lsfg-vk. EmuSwitch is GPL-2.0-or-later; builds with frame generation are GPL-3.0-or-later.

EmuSwitch is a legal emulator, we do not distribute any illegal ROMS and we do not condone piracy, all ROMS used for testing are ROMS that we have used from our own games.

EmuSwitch is still in testing and doesn't fully work yet. Expect bugs, crashes and games that don't run properly.

Every console, one menu.

Free, open source, and a few minutes from your SD card.

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