What is the Best Nintendo Switch Emulator? Performance & Features Tested

Let's take a look at the differences in Usability and Performance between yuzu and Ryujinx, two Nintendo Switch Emulators.

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Welcome Back 0:00
Animal Crossing New Horizons 2:04
Super Mario Odyssey 2:50
Pokemon Sword 3:42
Zelda Links Awakening 4:17
Smash Ultimate 5:06
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 6:43
Zelda Breath of the Wild 8:03
Astral Chain 9:06

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[bowlofspiders]

Comparisons aside videos like these are important as a reference for people trying to see if they're getting the performance their systems should be putting out. Thanks for the great content.

[quesod]

I would love to see this comparison again every six months or so!
Love the content btw

[Racer-X-]

Hopefully yuzu's resolution scaler will be back soon.

[prem]

Hey can you do a setup guide on the latest PS2 emulator release? I know PS2 emulator is pretty old news, but I would really appreciate an updated guide on it from someone experienced like you.

[BrUSomania]

Played BOTW on CEMU (Wii U emulator) at 1440p 60 FPS, almost without any issues. Crashed once (I think) and had to recompile shaders after updated graphics drivers.

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[KennyFubaralo]

your videos are so professional :p but it still has your obvious excitement which makes it so personal. great work man

[Salman.khan]

Regardless of which you prefer, it’s a win win for the emulation community. At the end of the day this is what we love and we want all emulators to succeed. Props to each of the teams for going strong even in these harsh times. ❤️👏🏽🙌🏽

[Franseven]

one has upscaling and the other has disk shaders, both are lacking one of this pretty big features, no one wins in my opinion

[silentdebugger]

Frankly I'm just amazed that Ryujinx runs so many of these games as well as it does. Remember when it was such a huge deal that Yuzu could get in-game on smash ultimate? Now it's like "oh yeah, the game is playable on Ryujinx too, no big deal".

[fruitoverflow]

It's really sad to see this situation in my opinion, those devs could've made a much better single emulator instead of splitting up and having to write code for everything twice.

[DeepWeeb]

Never got a single game to boot up in Ryunjix 😞 Yuzu getting more optimized and rendering games correctly gives me hope (sadly doesn't has resolution upscaling)

[Samuel-njyy]

Thank you for showing off the emulators! I have been looking into how to emulate FE:3Houses and I almost went with yuzu, but with your comment later in the video about ryujunx I will use it for my enjoyment with confidence now. I was really worried about the un-skippable cutscenes breaking the game on yuzu.

[stoneapollyon]

so overall yuzu is the best, there's your answer

[megapro]

1:55 thanks I was still missing that moon ^^

[MauricioNajera]

I was waiting for this since you asked on community's survey. This was a much better understanding of the world of switch emulator. Very very thanks for this!

[Jeyxero]

Thank you for always providing these amazing in-depth and unbiased videos explaining every detail of the emulators!

[GrandPianist]

The link you have under "Complete Yuzu Setup Guide" just leads back to this video. Please update!!

[kazuyagaming]

Gameplay is the most important aspect . Since emulator setup is just a one time effort. Very simple choice : Prefer quality but stutters / slow --> Use RyujinX ; Prefer speed ---> Use Yuzu

[kgames]

Absolutely love your channel! Videos have helped me so so much

[starflight]

Since I kinda jsut wanna play some mario - Yuzu ftw
Thanks for making that quick and painless BsoD