

As such, players can now enjoy local multiplayer battles with their friends. As the team noted, the game is fully playable on yuzu. Going into more details, the latest version of yuzu can fully run Pokémon Sword/Shield. While these games could run with some workarounds in previous versions, they can now run properly, and without the need to use hacks.


Ultimate and Pokémon Sword/Shield are playable in the latest version of yuzu. While in Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu, the game ran well and the FPS is just fine but there are some games that are perfectly running on the emulator including Hollow Knight.The development team behind the Nintendo Switch emulator, yuzu, announced that both Super Smash Bros. In Link’s Awakening, the game experience some graphical glitches but the FPS rendered it unplayable. In Super Mario Odyssey, the game ran at first but it immediately crash. In Pokemon Sword clip, we’ve seen that roaming around will give you a decent speed and FPS in the game but during battle scenes, we can clearly see a dip in FPS and it may resort to crashing. It was noted in the video there were some crashes in the game but we can clearly see that sometimes, the games ran really well with decent speed and FPS on the smartphone. In the video, it was clearly seen that the smartphone ran different games such as Pokemon Sword, Let’s Go Pokemon: Pikachu, and Super Mario Odyssey. Lastly, you’ll need to have a smartphone with a powerful chipset - specifically, a Snapdragon 855 smartphone and up and in the demo video, they’ve used the realme X50 Pro 5G that comes with Snapdragon 865 processor.

Second, you’ll need to buy the Gamesir X2 Controller which lets you have buttons similar to the Nintendo Switch. In order to play the game, you’ll need the Egg:NS app first but as of this posting, the app is buggy and it’s prone to crashing right now. Yep, you read that right! A Nintendo Switch emulator for Android does exist and you can play games like Pokemon Sword, Let’s Go Pokemon: Pikachu, and Super Mario Odyssey but of course, there’s a catch to play Nintendo Switch titles on the emulator.
