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- The development of Nintendo Switch Emulator Nxemu has started again after a three-year hiatus.
- It is not a simple yuzu fork, although it borrows some code from the now abandoned emulator.
- The developer tries to avoid Yuzu and Ryujinx’s legal vulnerabilities.
Nintendo’s legal team has been in a tear in recent years and closed Nintendo Switch Emulators Yuzu and Ryujinx and scores a great win Against room sharing online. A developer has been notes, and with a new strategy to avoid the fire of Nintendo’s attorneys, they have recently started development on a new switch emulator.
Called NxemuThe emulator first came into development many years ago before he started a long hiatus three years ago. At that time, the emulator was only able to run a simple commercial game, which is a milestone for any emulator, but well behind the possibilities of alternatives such as Yuzu. After that, the development stopped, and it was largely forgotten.
As it turns out, the NXEMUS developer, N3xox1, is also the moderator of R/Emulation SUBLIDDIT. By holding a direct line to the latest news in emulation, they have been careful about Nintendo’s strategies to reduce emulators such as Yuzu and Ryujinx.
The most important vulnerability N3xOX1 seeks to avoid here relating to encryption. Nintendo knows that Emulators are technically legalBut bypassing certain protection, or technical limitation measures, breaks with DMCA section 1201 (A) (1) (A). The developer has written a in -depth blog posts If you want to learn more about their thoughts on the subject.
NXEMU will not decrypt games on the go, and potentially avoid Nintendo’s most important legal argument.
To avoid this, NXEMU takes a different approach. Rather than Gaffle Yuzu, which we have seen from Lemon And Sudachi, it only adds certain elements piece by piece. This means that it can utilize the code that optimizes the CPU performance, for example, while eliminating the ability to decrypt files on the go. In other words, you have to use your own tool to decrypt games before running them on NXEMU.
Since the Yuzu case broke out of the court, we do not know if that is exactly what Nintendo’s lawyers claimed. There may be other legal roads the company can use to shut down its hits. With the switch 2 just around the corner, the company will undoubtedly pull out all the stops.
Of course, this new switch emulator is still very early in development. You can Download version 0.1.0.59 On Github today, but it can only run the demo for 2048. The next goal is to get the emulator to run a single unencrypted switch game, but it may be months before any major progress is made.
Still, it is encouraging to see some progress in Switch emulation. Next to the progress of PS3 emulation on Android and recompile Efforts, 2025, form themselves to be an excellent year for emulation fans.