road-to-yuzu-without-switch

This Repo explains how to install the yuzu Switch Emulator without a Switch on a Windows PC, while i distance myself from Piracy and that i own any of these Games shown in the Screenshots and Gifs! If you use anything out of this please credit me appropriately!

• Introduction
• Guide
• yuzu-Setup
• Needed-Files
• Settings
• Games
• NoPiracy
• Games
• Additional
• Compatability
• Game Updates
• Performance
• BCAT
• Mods/Patches
• Mentions
• Goodbye

Introduction

Hey, im Yukii and I'm writing you a guide on how to install yuzu without having a Switch, since I discovered this is literally a pain in the ass. I try to make it as easy as possible, but be sure to check this out if you need new keys, since I try to keep this always up-to-date! <3

Guide

Setup

First you will need yuzu. Download it. Open it in WinRar, 7ZIP idk and then move the contents in a folder and open the yuzu.exe.

yuzu will open and show this screen on there click Emulation -> Configure -> System -> Profile Then press on Add and make a new profile, then close yuzu

Files

Inside of yuzu click File -> Open yuzu folder. This will open the yuzu configuration folder inside of explorer.

Create a folder called "keys" and copy the key you got from here and paste it in the folder as a file called prod.keys.

Settings

For settings open yuzu up Emulation -> Configure -> Graphics, Select OpenGL and set it to Vulkan or OpenGL. (Vulkan seems to be a bit bad atm) With the new improvements since this guide came out, Vulkan is now a viable option!
Then go to Controls and press Single Player yadiyadiyada and set it to something like this

Then Press Configure and set Player 1 to Pro Controller if you have a controller/keyboard and to Joycons if Joycons. Press Configure and press the excat buttons on your controller (it's easier for Xbox but for you PS4 and keyboard users I have a graphic for yo found here) After you're done press Okay and continue to the next step.

Games

Download any ROM you want from any ROM Website you like, or if your arent a Pirate from your Switch. A Tutorial for that is below in I recommend here, but any ROM Site does it. After you got your File (can be .xci or .nsp) create a folder somewhere on your PC and in that folder create another folder for your game. After that double-click into yuzu and select the folder you put your game folder in.

Now the game should be in the list. Next do what I do in the gif below.

NoPiracy

• So here goes the way to get Games without Piracy!
• if Something is titled with an NP it means its NoPiracy!

NPGames

I found a very good guide that can be found here Sorry, I just don't have a Homebrewed Switch to try it atm. When you have the XCI, just do the same as in the Gif Above

Aditional

Compatibility

For a Compatibility List of Games working look here

Game-Updates

Download the update of your game or DLCs, usually as a .nsp. Put it in your folder of the game, then open yuzu. Do exactly as in there For me it was already installed but it should then show under addons that you have it installed.

Performance

For the best Performance just go below here

Nvidia:

• Download latest Driver
• Download NvidiaInspector
• Open it and Press the Green Arrow that goes down in Topbar and select import Profiles
• Download my Profile and select it
• Press ,,Apply Changes,,
• Profit

AMD:

• Use Vulkan for everything you can, OpenGL is slow as all heck on AMD due to their bad OpenGL code.

Intel:

• Once again Vulkan is better, OpenGL is bad on here too.

Generally:

Use my GamingTweaksRepo for Performance Stuff

BCATS

Whats a BCAT? It stands for BoxCat and it's Nintendo's sending you Ingame Gifts. On an Emulator this, obv, doesn't work like this on a Switch, so Yuzu has its own way of giving you these. To easiernable this go in the menu and choose Boxcat.

A list of all the stuff you can get can be found [here](https://yuzu-emu.org/help/feature/boxcat/)

Addons

Here ima show how to install mods. It's pretty simple, as an example, we're gonna take the mod from here When you download the zip file you will have a folder called "exefs_patches". Go inside that folder and in the other folder in there until you are at this file with an .IPS

Then move that IPS file into exefs_patches and delete the now empty folder. Then rename exefs_patches into exefs. Now open yuzu and rightclick your game -> Open Mod Directory. Create a new folder with any name you want and move the exefs folder into that, then restart yuzu and you're done. You now see your mod at compatibility. - Additional Note here: If you got any other names for the folder don't rename it to exefs. Instead rename them to romfs or romfs_ext.

You can completly skip these steps if you use mods from here or here

Mentions

Thy to this guy someone found on HackerNews Posting my Github as an Answer :D

Goodbye

Thank you for reading this, I hope it helped you with your start into Switch emulation. If I forgot something just create a Pull Request with the stuff added and I will review it ASAP.