Streisand effect in action. I am never going to buy anything Nintendo, because they're a dog-shit company. I hadn't realised a Switch emulator existed. Andddd... My wife would really like to play Pikmin 4.

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 22 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Yep all you need to do is find a copy of the firmware (you actually can get the latest firmware from the internet archive) and the decryption keys (they're a little bit more difficult to find, can't remember where I got them from, but it took a long time for me to find a working download)

[–] JackOverlord@beehaw.org 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For the future and anyone else who reads this:

https://rentry.co/128bb

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thank you!

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or just download a FitGirl repack of any Switch game and you don't have to worry about any firmware/decryption nonsense. Just install and play.

[–] graymess@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've wondered about those. Don't they get outdated as the emulators become more developed? I'm assuming it's packed with whichever version was the latest stable release at the time.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Yes but you can always just update the emulator yourself. If you're playing the latest games then you're usually using a more up-to-date version anyway.

[–] Pwnmode@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

There are tons of sites that host switch firmware and "prod keys" for it as well. You need the keys for playing games on the switch natively as well.

[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I never figured this out. When I play switch games it's always a version that bundles the emulator with it and has all the keys and bios crap already configured.

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

You might also ask nicely for folks to send you theirs. Especially since Nintendo is going after Yuzu, I'm sure there's plenty of folks that would volunteer keys via DM just to stick it to Nintendo...

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The keys I found were on a website linked from a website posted to a Reddit sub. And they were base64 encoded for obscurity

[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's actually two Switch emulators. Ryujinx is the other one. I've tried both and they're both solid options.

[–] VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago

I found that yuzu is more stable while Ryujinx is able to calculate uncached shaders a lot faster, which is great for playing Smash Ultimate, since I couldn't get online shadercaches to work correctly. I overall prefer Ryujinx, but both are very solid.

[–] reinei@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They are up to 4 already‽ I mean I never really kept up with a game I started at the second entry and wasn't particularly good at at the time but still...

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Are you seriously asking if a popular game series that first came out over twenty years is "up to 4 already"?

What world are you living in?

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How's Half-Life doing?

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

or Metroid Prime 4 even lol

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Original switch version by Bandai Namco was likely cancelled and retro are working on switch 2 version

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Damn. I walked right into that one lol