Nintendo 3DS / Switch Emulators Tier List for Android: Best and Worst Ranked

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0:00 Intro
0:42 Rules
1:07 Setup
1:52 Citra 2104
2:25 Citra PabloMK7
3:03 Citra MMJ
3:48 Mandarine
4:25 Lime3DS
5:00 Conclusion (3DS)
5:37 Nintendo Switch
6:37 Egg-NS
7:53 Yuzu
8:34 Uzuy
9:21 Sudachi
9:59 Torzu
10:41 Pine
11:22 Skyline
11:54 Conclusion (Switch)

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📱CPU: Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Qualcomm SM8475 - 8 Core - 2.3 GHZ
📱GPU: Adreno 730
📱RAM - 8GB
📱OS: Android 14 ROG UI

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[AlexwpiGame]

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[JohnGamer]

Alex: You're a very generous ranker. No doubt you made a small group of people very happy. What are your plans, SS & SSS tier moving forward? All kidding aside, great job on the Unplayable tier list. All that hype on Skyline, this is probably the first time a content creator tell it like it is - A switch emulator should at least have add-ons for game updates, dlcs, and firmware updates.

Someone mentioned a tier for Strato and Mikage emulator on reddit awhile back ago, calling it Unicorn tier. My thought was this is such a fitting tier name. I am proposing that you add this to the tier. I could be wrong, but I am almost positive Strato will move to a different tier soon.

For everyone: Let's talk about performance. The easiest way to gauge performance is to split the type of games in two tiers: competitive gaming and all the rest. On competitive games, high frame rate is a must. All the rest types of games, high frame rate is not as important. As for other performance metric, frame pace applies to both tiers. Competitive gaming are always multiplayer games (player against player). Now gaming on consoles like Switch, Playstation, and XBox generally falls under "all the rest" types of games and the emulation of those consoles as well. People who play competitive games generally play on PCs. Now frame rates do not appear to match when running multiple performance monitoring apps on switch emulation on android. It is more of a distraction. I think for gamers, it is best to avoid the fps counters and just eyeball the performance. If you are happy with what you are seeing without the distraction, that is what matters.

To rank an emulator is equivalent to ranking their compatibility list. "Compatibility list is the emulator's crown jewel." Yuzu's compatibilty list is around C, Yuzu Android at best C-, more likely lower. For Yuzu forks to even move to C+ or B would require a crazy amount of "real testers" to participate like hundreds of thousands of testers plus a big group of developers and contributors to work on it (Send them all here on Alexwpi Channel & subscribe, let's talk). Yuzu Android forks are C- at best, probably lower. Why do you think this is the case for Yuzu and Yuzu forks? Ryujinx looks to be more of a B and have the potential to move to A unlike Yuzu.

Testing game(s) are really difficult for a game that runs well on the emulator. For example: BOTW for Ryujinx on Windows for a status-ingame (minor glitch(es)) takes more than 193 hours. Just take a look at howlongtobeat under completionist. Real testers will have to spend more hours than a completionist if you really want to know. That is more than 8 days straight and more than 24 days if you test 8 hours a day. That game is almost perfect on Ryujinx on Windows. You should take note that status-game on Ryujinx are often more perfect than perfect on Yuzu. Just like emulators that likes to inflate their compatibility list (Skyline). Skyline later reduced their compatiblity list dramatically after development stop. Only now some or many of you are finding out Skyline are Unplayable.

Why don't we form a independent testers clubs for games and knowledge base? Maybe call it "United Federation of Gamers or The Republic of Gamers" (taken by ASUS I believe, so what?).

[edoardoferrari]

Wow, I just discovered your channel and it looks really cool. It is an excellent source of information that is always up to date, keep it up 👍

[merryzzbss]

Estava esperando esse vídeo faz um tempinho kkkk, tá mto bom mn. Continue pfv

[GeorgePerakis]

Amazing channel, great analysis, subscribed and sharing these videos.
I've been looking for good advice for Android emulation for a while but google is useless. Any advice for PS2? Is the now defunct AetherSX2 still the best option?

[abedabed]

Bro did you really get almost 120 fps on kirby with uzuy? How? Im using a mod for 60fps without NPCs and can barely get 50fps on a s23 ultra undocked. Also great video

[jpikachu-zvgt]

Could you please make a tear list for 3ds on pc (don’t forget to look at the milestones on lime3ds)

[sanzid]

Citra MMJ Is The Best For 3ds Even In My Low End Device ❤

[peekaboo]

This the information I wanted, at last... 😊

[alexanderellwood]

I was hoping mikage would be further along by now. Cant wait to see where it belongs on this list

[sudoo]

Great video, did you make or planning to make a video on vita3k android? If you are can you put trails of cold steel1 in your gaming testing list? I know the compatibility sheet cant be trusted since some -ingame status games work flawlessly, but cold steel has a playable status, and it is playable but the fps is shit on certain instances like the first 20sec of the opening and any other wierd anime cutscene or few sec on the menu. They are not shader compil lag as far as i can tell, its a wierd performance issue i think since ive seen people run that game on lower spec devices too, my specs are 8gen2 and device is odin2mini
But obviously you dont have to go that extensively and also no point if you already made a vita3k video

[xXxLuismaxXx]

So sudachi is better than uzuy except for the antutu trick right?

[goomy]

Can you make a video about the new cemu update?

[__Ryder__]

So uzuy is really the best? It has improvements/optimizations?

[AlexIndiex]

Even if torzu is from dark git, it is still better than sudachi and latest yuzu, considering both at this point are abandoned, uzuy is also on the same boat with torzu but at least both deliver performance improvements, also seems like everyone forgot about sudachi taking code from torzu when princess peach released and from ryujinx when the new paper Mario game came out, this also shows in the performance and compatibility tests, nothing changes from normal yuzu and changes are so minium it falls in the same boat with suyu, disappointing developer/s, who also trying to illegally paywalling citra iOS port when it was still active

[ds_mn]

Eu tenho um galaxy a34 com um dimensity midiatek 1080 e 6 de ram, qual emulador de 3ds e switch vc acha que rodaria bem no meu celular ?

[eskitvturkiye]

best switch emulator ? suyu vs torzu vs sudachi? my system recoments rx 6600 16 gb ram

[evatron]

Haz un video de la última versión no oficial de Touchhle no oficial ahora muchos juegos

[ramdanrivanto]

I can confirm i hate eggns but some game we should accept that run better on my rog 6 than other emulater, such as bayonetta 3 in eggns run flawlessly compare with yuzu, sudachi, uzuy or whatever still no improvement. Yuzu is dead, the rest i dont know i tried them all but still the 0.0 fps bug still there, uzuy come up with frame interpolation that still not working but some claim its working. Strato probably dead too, the only hope that ryujinx want to port the emulator to android but i doubt that very much. The best way to enjoy switch emulator is with pc or handheld with ryujinx, thats it.

[IgnacioCalvo]

I'm surprised you say Citra MMJ has better performance than Lime and Mandarine, in my case it's the opposite, even in adventure mode (SSB for 3DS) with Citra MMJ I only reached about 30 FPS, but with Lime3DS and Mandarine I get a constant 60 FPS using the Vulkan API