Ryujinx is a Nintendo Switch emulator, originally created by gdkchan, written in C#.
This emulator aims at providing excellent accuracy and performance, a user-friendly interface and consistent builds. It was written from scratch.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- CPU emulator, ARMeilleure, emulates an ARMv8 CPU and currently has support for most 64-bit ARMv8 and some of the ARMv7 (and older) instructions, including partial 32-bit support. It translates the ARM code to a custom IR, performs a few optimizations, and turns that into x86 code.
- Full audio support.
- GPU emulator emulates the Switch’s Maxwell GPU using either the OpenGL (version 4.5 minimum), Vulkan, or Metal (via MoltenVK) APIs through a custom build of OpenTK or Silk.NET respectively. There are currently six graphics enhancements available to the end user in Ryujinx: Disk Shader Caching, Resolution Scaling, Anti-Aliasing, Scaling Filters (including FSR), Anisotropic Filtering and Aspect Ratio Adjustment. These enhancements can be adjusted or toggled as desired in the GUI.
- Supports keyboard, mouse, touch input, Joy-Con input support, and nearly all controllers.
Motion controls are natively supported in most cases; for dual-JoyCon motion support
Website: ryujinx.app
Support: GitLab Code Repository
Developer: Ryujinx Team and Contributors
License: MIT License

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