An interview with Switch 2 devs revealed that the Nintendo Switch 2 relies partially on emulation to play Switch 1 games. The two systems do not have compatible hardware, so native backwards ...

Eden, a Yuzu fork, launched on Google Play as a high-performance Nintendo Switch emulator. Nintendo has aggressively targeted emulators before; Eden risks legal action like Yuzu faced. Putting Eden on ...

Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the ...

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...

Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the ...

A representative for Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to every Switch emulator on GitHub. Switch emulator repositories are still up, but likely not for long. Active projects are still hosted outside ...

The Nintendo Switch is a great handheld gaming device that offers a great console experience right in your hands. However, with the ease with which we carry our smartphones, we can’t say the same for ...

The makers of the Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx pulled the open-source project offline after being contacted by Nintendo, one of its developer announced Tuesday on Discord. If you’re counting, that ...

A popular Nintendo Switch emulator is no longer playable after intervention from the Japanese video game company. Ryujinx, an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS, shared ...

Nintendo has shuttered another emulator, this time putting an end to Ryujinx. The program was an open-source emulator for playing Nintendo Switch games on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. A ...

Nintendo flexed its legal muscle once more, as the company issued takedown notices to several Switch emulator repositories hosted on GitHub. Though the emulation crackdown by Nintendo remained an ...

Backward compatibility has been one of the Nintendo Switch 2‘s major talking points, but Nintendo has revealed the console doesn’t natively run Switch games. Instead, Nintendo designed its own ...