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 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

For the future and anyone else who reads this:

https://rentry.co/128bb

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thank you!

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 10 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 10 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 Don't they get outdated as the emulators become more developed?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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago (2 children)

How's Half-Life doing?

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

or Metroid Prime 4 even lol

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Damn. I walked right into that one lol