The two mainstream ones are out of development. I live under rocks, but not so many rocks that I don’t know this.

I was hoping for either a backup of them as they were, or some fork(s) that continued development.

  • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    I’ve been playing using the latest forks setup on the Fitgirl torrents of Switch games. Started with The new Zelda and Unicorn Overlord, then grabbed some other games. The folder comes with a launcher to both emulators, I customized the whole thing to be my own Switch central, and updated the Ryujinx build with the last “official” one on the Internet Archive.

    Other than that, this thread has good recommendations for followup projects to both. The megathread has places to download the games themselves individually.

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        From the repo:

        This fork is intended to be a QoL uplift for existing Ryujinx users. This is not a Ryujinx revival project. This is not a Phoenix project.

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          15 hours ago

          Just look at the amount of contributors and releases since the fork. Its more than just an archive.

    • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      27·
      1 day ago

      Suyu is just a renamed Yuzu.

      As soon as Yuzu wrecked by Nintendo; They took the source code, changed the name to Suyu and then done little to no changes to it.

      They also caused lots of drama within their own Discord. One of the people who were involved, left because of threats, issues with the “developers” and overall childish behavior.

        • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Sudachi was an actual fork and really in development by the developer. However from what, I remember, he quit developing it because of continuously threats, insults and no appreciation from the community.

      • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Oh did not know that, sad to hear.

        They did remove traffic to the old Yuzu domains though, which now are in the hands of Nintendo, used to monitor which users use emulators.

        Do you have other suggestions for promising successor forks?

        • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          20 hours ago

          Do you have other suggestions for promising successor forks?

          I have been told about GreemDev which is a fork of Ryujinx and still being in development. But I honestly, don’t know much about it (have not been keeping myself up to date with it).

          Though so far both the original Yuzu and Ryujinx are still working pretty great. Some small issues happens like crashes with Mario & Luigi brothership but people found work-arounds for that on Ryujinx; changing CPU to ‘‘software’’ for Mario & Luigi brothership (which hits the FPS a bit but overall stability and no crashes) and then set it back to its default for other games.

          which now are in the hands of Nintendo, used to monitor which users use emulators.

          No clue about Nintendo using its data to monitor users who use(d) emulators. They rather go after the developers of emulators (I think) unless someone is stupid enough to stream pirated games, tell viewers how to get them illegally and provoke Nintendo like this guy; Jesse Keighin, aka Every Game Guru.

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    25·
    1 day ago

    It’s sad that Nintendo has so much money that these devs keep caving, when they legally have a right to develop an emulator as long as they’re not distributing them with title keys and such.

    I think a major reason they went so hard on this issue is the rumors that Switch 2 will have largely similar hardware and backward compatibility, including use of the same type of cartridges. As such emulating Switch 2 could easily just be a simple continuation of the work on the original Switch and it’s going to be a bad deal when their brand new system can be emulated on day one of release.

    Personal opinion, it’s the natural result of them keeping their systems so low-end for so long, emulation of them is just easier than emulation of a PS5 or an Xbox. (do you even have to emulate xbox? aren’t they technically UWP windows apps?)

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
      15·
      1 day ago

      Totally agree. I think another crazy thing is that Nintendo knows how easy it is to emulate their latest games when developers are doing it without source code legally.

      Like imagine if nintendo just saved the effort and money they otherwise would spend on R&D, manufacturing, shipping, and promotion, litigation on new consoles every so often and just released an official emulator instead. It would be so much better for the environment to let people use their own hardware and they could just focus mostly on making games.

      At minimum, they could do both and have an option to sell games to people that don’t want another device to play media that their current devices already are capable of. And slowly phase out the console.