How To Use The Yuzu Emulator To Play Nintendo Switch Games On Your PC
In today’s topic, we will move away from Windows 10 and Linux and start looking at the dominant mobile operating system, Android.
The question is what if you want the other side of Nintendo Switch Gaming, portability? Yuzu is the answer! This emulation platform allows you to play your Switch games on your Android Smartphone that is continuously being updated to include more and more devices to run smoothly and a growing game compatibility list Some have even been able to run the latest Switch Games including the newest Metroid!
Installation is very easy, in fact, the official Yuzu guide on installing this emulator only has seven steps with one sentence instruction for each step. If you experience trying out other emulators on your mobile device, this is not different, it is super easy to install, use and play on.
For now, you will need a mobile gaming controller called the GameSir X2 Type-C for Yuzu to work, this is officially required by the NXTeam which is the development for this emulator. Hopefully, in the future, we can use any controller we would like to use this emulator. However, if you really want to try out Switch games and just how powerful your Android Phone is, Yuzu is the most convenient and most optimized Switch emulator out there for mobile.
In relation to your phone’s power, emulation is no easy task for any system, you might be surprised that even modern hardware sometimes struggle to emulate consoles and arcade systems from the 1990s, for this emulator you will need a pretty beefy Android Phone to run games at a steady framerate.
However, if you do not the latest and greatest or even a flagship from 2018 with the Snapdragon 855 you can still try out the Yuzu emulator and test out some lighter titles plus 4 years of innovation has made it so that even entry-level and mid-range phones are capable of playing modern android games without a problem and this innovation and improvements in power will greatly help in emulation.
You might be wondering why there is no mention of iOS, well for now iOS is not supported by Yuzu and there is no indication by the developers that they are working on a version of this emulator that can run on Apple’s operating system.
Once you have installed Yuzu Emulator you will immediately realize that it has a very good user interface, it does not lag behind its Windows 10 brethren when it comes to ease of use, customizability, and amount of customization. When you have located the directory where your games are stored the next time you load up Yuzu it will display all the games you have along with their thumbnails!
Now when it comes to gameplay, since you have an external controller connected it truly feels like you are playing on a console especially when you have games that have perfect compatibility with the emulator, it is hassle-free and with no game-breaking glitches and performance issues.