As of now, all of this is mere speculation and there is a possibility that the release of the Yuzu emulator might have no effect on Switch sales at all. It may decrease Switch sales in 2018 and even decrease the number of people purchasing games like Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. Since the release of the Switch emulator will increase piracy of Switch exclusive titles, Nintendo might take a hard hit on both fronts.

road-to-yuzu-without-switch - This Repo explains how to install the Yuzu Switch Emulator without a Switch. BetterJoy - Allows the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, Joycons and SNES controller to be used with CEMU, Citra, Dolphin, Yuzu and as generic XInput. GitHub yuzu-emu / yuzu Public Notifications Fork 1.9k Star 22.This emulator aims at providing excellent accuracy and performance, a user-friendly interface, and consistent builds. It is written in C with portability in mind, with builds actively maintained for iPhone and iPad. On the flip side, others have noted that the Switch emulator won’t be an issue for Nintendo as it would take years before an emulator is able to run games properly.Įmulators of popular consoles have been around since what seems like forever and while the emulators themselves aren’t illegal, they lead to piracy. Ryujinx-Games-List - List of games & demos tested on Ryujinx. Yuzu is an experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch for iOS devices. On a Reddit discussion thread regarding the announcement, a number of people have noted that the release of a capable emulator might adversely affect the sales as people will be able to play Switch exclusive titles on their systems. But again you won't be running practically any games using that PR.While proud members of the PC Master Race are more than happy with the announcement, others have expressed concern. If you are still interested look at this PR #4165 that is where people are currently adding patches to make Yuzu compile on macOS. So ultimately yes, you can compile Yuzu for macOS with some work, but you won't be able to run pretty much anything that uses a 3D engine, which includes most commercial games, even ones that have a 2D appearance. And while there are projects attempting to translate Vulkan calls to Metal they are still pretty immature and not at a stage where they work well with Yuzu. macOS only supports a graphics API called Metal. The issue is that macOS does not support OpenGL 4.6 or Vulkan which are the graphics APIs required by Yuzu to properly render games.

Long answer: Compiling Yuzu for macOS is not really the main issue for compatibility, that can already be done with some minor patching to the source code. Short answer: No, it's not possible, at least not in the sense of having it work as well as the Windows and Linux versions.