I originally thought this wasn’t possible, but I’m surprised that Switch emulation is now possible on a Mac, back then I wasn’t able to play Wii U and Switch games on my Mac, but now with Cemu and Ryujinx being usable, I can see improvements coming to these for plenty of games in the future
depends most of the games in switch are Made by different companies meaning some games will be compatible with the app while other might not, the Nintendo games such as BOFTW, Mario kart 8, etc will probably get improved in the future but other games such as the Witcher, doom, etc will still suffer because every company made the game differently
I have a late 2018 Mac Mini and I just recently discovered I could play Wii U games. Some can work perfectly like New Super Mario Bros, the HD versions of Zelda Windwaker and Twilight Princess, and Star Fox Zero. Some other games will load but they're massively slowed down. Breath of the Wild was one of those and I'm just amazed that it loaded and played despite the slow down. I can't even imagine what gaming will be like on one of the new Mac Minis. I'm so excited for the next time I upgrade!
i have been playing mario oddyssey with ryujinx and beyonetta 2 with cemu since i saw your videos and it has been a great experince i have played and complted zelda with cemu on windows here in india its pointless to buy a switch and i am very thankful to you though i own a playstation its funny that im still playing games on mac ! great job man keep them coming
Mario Kart 8 runs perfectly on my MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro). 60fps throughout (unless there's shader compilation, which is not often now). Hypervisor is turned on.
Dude, keep up the grind! Thanks to you I found about this and I am able to play these games. I'm a college student, I'm broke, and bored, and I need some new entertainment 😁
Suprising to see Mac getting support for Switch emu. Once Mac and Linux catch up with Windows in gaming, I'll probably never use Windows ever again. I'll have a Macbook for work and productivity and a Linux desktop for gaming(Also consoles for physicals)
Hi Andrew ! Thank for this video. I was wondering if you would know if emulating with ryujinx will be working well with my macbook ? I just bought a macbook pro 13 inch M2 with 16 gigs of ram and 512 g ssd.
I need an advice, base M2 chip Zelda BOTW 10 fps , DARC SOULS REMASTERED 10 fps did some can give a solution to increase fps or it’s just weak base cpu that cap’s productivity???
Hey Andrew! What settings did you use for Fire Emblem Three Houses? My M1 Mac Mini crashes when engaging in fights and can’t barely seem to progress unless I skip everything. Any tips?
I have an Intel MacBook Pro 2019 with an i9 processor and 32 gigs of ram. I have follow all instructions to the letter and no matter the game I try on the emulator it keeps crashing! Is there something im missing here? Thank you in advance.
My Mac will not find these games. When I download it just ghosts the games and I can’t select. Any options? Please. :) I don’t have this problem on my windows pc.
How did you setup the motion control? I have the joycon with grip and I would use it... On my MacBook Pro M1 16gb Zelda works 30fps. It is playable with some graphic glitch and some deceleration because the shader cache is compiling.
I can not run mariokart on cemu on m1 macbook air... no matter what settings i use it crashes immediately after showing the intro screen. what is the secret?
Can you try the Xenoblade series? I've tried Xenoblade 2 and there were a bunch of issues. Was wondering if it was due to a bad ROM. Would love to see how Xenoblade 3 performs as well.
can someone please tell me how I can download the animal crossing new horizon game for Ryujinx Mac ?? I already have Ryujinx ready just the game is missing
I was playing pokemon shinning pearl but after defeating the 4th gym it won’t load anymore. Y keeps loading to open the game, i have a m1 pro processor.
1x speed from base M1 I did not expect, this is actually insane. At this point, getting a Switch is just dumb. Archaic hardware when you can buy a copy and enjoy the games with better quality everywhere else (outside multiplayer and shader compilation, which only bothers the first 30 min of gaming). Better put Switch money into a Steam Deck.
Could you make a tutorial on installing mods in games like Smash and Mario Kart? I’ve been having trouble with mods just not showing up or games crashing. It’s possible they just don’t work yet but there’s not enough documentation to make sure.
Anyone know why 80% of the games download with no sound? Check my mac's sound settings and everything is find on my end, changed up the audio settings in ryujinx and nothing. If anyone can give me some advice that would be awesome.
@@drewcon4t hmm so seems torrent downloading is 50/50 i redownloaded pokemon violet 3 times and now works perfectly i use nsw2u its the safest site just make sure to use a torrent
Turned macbook air m1 on today and ryujinx has reset itself. Asking for prod keys/firmware again, lost save files. Anyone know how to get those save files back?
Figured it out, Ryujinx started using /users//.config/ryujinx for whatever reason (possibly some conflict with the way mac os expects things to work?). I simply needed to take the ryujinx folder from /users/ and replace the above.
all we need now is how to play online via ldn , i think people complains too much even with shader the emulator is here since one week and it works better than most over emulators so
Guys, I'll to get a Macbook for work but also to emulate some games, what do you say, do I get the Air or the Pro? Both with M1... Does the Pro make up for the higher value?
Pro is better for games. I also personally like the touch bar that the pro has, I think it’s so cool. How much better for games? Well, they’re slightly more playable. Macs really aren’t gaming computers but definitely go for the Pro if your looking to emulate basic games
go with pro I have a M1 for college which is not bad and I can play some good decent amount of games but with the pro you can pretty much play more games and has better chip
I couldn’t even find the ROM games for the Nintendo switch because it kept taking me to fake pages or scam pages saying my Mac got a virus or something so does this application not work anymore??
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on M1 Pro gets 60 easily on 4K with rare stutters (not due to shader compilation) Edit: Never played Grand Prix on emulator, only Time Trials, I stand corrected, it is pretty unplayable. Time Trials is fine though, smooth 60
@@valeriorussotto6087 Check second link in description on the "Switch emulation on Mac just got A LOT better! Ryujinx OFFICIAL release" video dont wanna post a link cuz youtube is annoying
Yes it's works but the temperature of CPU 70 degrees 🔥How can we do so that our macbooks do not heat up? I was playing Pokemon Scarlet on a Mac book pro M1 Pro
Shader complaining MK8 using Ryusak simply crashes the game when trying to launch. Deleting it from Ryusak fixes it, but you have to compile the slow method way.
What about Super Smash bros Ultimate? i tried it but its quite slow for competitive play, undocked mode seems to work better but still not great, im playing it on a Macbook Pro M1 13" ( yep... the M1 model with the infamous touch bar ahahah)
Botw works you just need to turn it off for the inititial boot up of the game then next time you play turn it back on it just can't get through the tomb
I've been trying out Ryujinx on my M1 Max and I'm absolutely blown away. Well done to the Ryujinx team, excited to see where this can go!
What games have you been enjoying the most so far?
I was playing all switch games on my note 20 ultra
@@prestongower7800 We. Do. Not. Care. We tryna play on da MAC
Anyone have a link for some roms?
@@PinkGabe909 Try nx brew
You have to take a drink every time Andy says, "shader compilation stutter"
Better yet, take a drink every time a game stutters
i'll do YOU one better, take a drink every time the game goes under 60 (or 30, depending on the game) FPS
Andrew**
I’m drunk
I call this game "Alcohol poisoning"
I originally thought this wasn’t possible, but I’m surprised that Switch emulation is now possible on a Mac, back then I wasn’t able to play Wii U and Switch games on my Mac, but now with Cemu and Ryujinx being usable, I can see improvements coming to these for plenty of games in the future
depends most of the games in switch are Made by different companies meaning some games will be compatible with the app while other might not, the Nintendo games such as BOFTW, Mario kart 8, etc will probably get improved in the future but other games such as the Witcher, doom, etc will still suffer because every company made the game differently
I have a late 2018 Mac Mini and I just recently discovered I could play Wii U games. Some can work perfectly like New Super Mario Bros, the HD versions of Zelda Windwaker and Twilight Princess, and Star Fox Zero. Some other games will load but they're massively slowed down. Breath of the Wild was one of those and I'm just amazed that it loaded and played despite the slow down. I can't even imagine what gaming will be like on one of the new Mac Minis. I'm so excited for the next time I upgrade!
i have been playing mario oddyssey with ryujinx and beyonetta 2 with cemu since i saw your videos and it has been a great experince i have played and complted zelda with cemu on windows here in india its pointless to buy a switch and i am very thankful to you though i own a playstation its funny that im still playing games on mac !
great job man keep them coming
how do I get the audio to work, I have been unsuccessful
@@Esmandaucom what happened for me was no matter what I tried there wouldn't be any options then I restarted the app and they were there
once the shader compilation issues get figured out I will absolutely be all over this lol
how do I get the audio to work, I have been unsuccessful in various games to get the audio working
Brave not blurring out the gameplay video. Happy to see it runs decently on base m1.
This is absolutely incredible stuff. Mac gaming is is reaching a whole new level.
Love your videos you're like the only one that does gaming videos for Mac really appreciate it man keep up the good work!
Thanks for the videos you make, I love your channel!
Mario Kart 8 runs perfectly on my MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro). 60fps throughout (unless there's shader compilation, which is not often now). Hypervisor is turned on.
Hi Have you played Zelda BOTW on your MBP 14 (M1 Pro)? I wonder what frame you have?
Playing now super Mario Odyssee with my son. Great work.
Good videos! Keep it up!
Dude, keep up the grind! Thanks to you I found about this and I am able to play these games. I'm a college student, I'm broke, and bored, and I need some new entertainment 😁
Been waiting for this!!!!
Really impressive! I’m still waiting for citra to be ported to ARM and support Vulcan
we need citra !
@@l91106 wait cites doesn't work on Mac? I've been playing citra on Mac for years
@@badgertech7054 Are you using an Intel Mac? If so I assume Citra is an x86 app natively. Which would not run natively on M1+ chips.
@@harrydsgn oh that's true I have both and now that I think about it I haven't tried adding it to my m1 Mac
Citra was ported to arm years ago.
Great video!
Awesome! Thanks for featuring my comment lol. Looking forward to the Animal Crossing crashing fix hopefully soon! :)
Try to switch off hypervision in Ryujinx settings ;)
@@paul.m843 Do you mean Hypervisor from the CPU settings?
@@cdbaxul4726 Yes :)
@@paul.m843 Thanks, still crashing randomly for me...
@@cdbaxul4726 Sorry to read that...
I really hope to be able to play those games on the base M1 MacBook Air in the future!
Is the base M1 going to be powerful enough?
it is
@@xinxin852
How? All I can get is 14 fps and the computer gets very hot.
Hey Andrew! what do you use to record your screen? I tried OBS but it doesn’t pick up system audio.
Suprising to see Mac getting support for Switch emu. Once Mac and Linux catch up with Windows in gaming, I'll probably never use Windows ever again.
I'll have a Macbook for work and productivity and a Linux desktop for gaming(Also consoles for physicals)
Which is never sadly.
Hi Andrew ! Thank for this video. I was wondering if you would know if emulating with ryujinx will be working well with my macbook ? I just bought a macbook pro 13 inch M2 with 16 gigs of ram and 512 g ssd.
I need an advice, base M2 chip Zelda BOTW 10 fps , DARC SOULS REMASTERED 10 fps did some can give a solution to increase fps or it’s just weak base cpu that cap’s productivity???
On my Base M1 MK8 seems much more stable than you've shown, it's running just fine for me with 30FPS (besides shader cache stutters)
On mine tooo
I also have a base M1 Macbook Air and it runs pretty well, not solid 60 but somewhere 45-60, sometimes even 75 with v-sync disabled
Maybe because he’s recording at the same time it lowers he’s fps. But maybe it’s all about the setting.
Hey Andrew! What settings did you use for Fire Emblem Three Houses? My M1 Mac Mini crashes when engaging in fights and can’t barely seem to progress unless I skip everything. Any tips?
actually botw on cemu now runs pretty much perfectly! a lot of the bugs and the graphical glitches have been resolved in the latest builds
On base m1 or pro?
@@lolislayer1643 on m1 Mac mini it does not run perfectly. The fps is like 20 at best. I guess it depends on what he means by “runs perfectly.”
@@CarlYota Bro prolly has a mbp lol
what controller do you play with? in BOTW we have to use gyro if you use a ds4 you can use the gyro directly on the macbook or have to use config?
You can use DS4 however if you want to play BOTW I recommend Cemu.
Dread runs really well on Ryujinx on M1
I have an Intel MacBook Pro 2019 with an i9 processor and 32 gigs of ram. I have follow all instructions to the letter and no matter the game I try on the emulator it keeps crashing! Is there something im missing here? Thank you in advance.
Yes you should just Boot Camp and run x86 Ryujinx the performance will be better on Intel Macs.
My Mac will not find these games. When I download it just ghosts the games and I can’t select. Any options? Please. :) I don’t have this problem on my windows pc.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has actually worked flawlessly on my M1 Max Studio
How did you setup the motion control? I have the joycon with grip and I would use it... On my MacBook Pro M1 16gb Zelda works 30fps. It is playable with some graphic glitch and some deceleration because the shader cache is compiling.
Hai provato su ryujinx a giocare a botw? Funziona? Sto cercando il modo migliore per giocarlo da Mac Pro m1
@@lorenzosavio7199 la migliore opzione al momento è usare cemu. Il risultato è discreto ma spreme il Mac.
I can not run mariokart on cemu on m1 macbook air... no matter what settings i use it crashes immediately after showing the intro screen. what is the secret?
great contents, keep it up
Could you do FIFA 23 legacy edition, Witcher 3 and assassins creed and Ori?
Can you try the Xenoblade series? I've tried Xenoblade 2 and there were a bunch of issues. Was wondering if it was due to a bad ROM. Would love to see how Xenoblade 3 performs as well.
I've tried Xenoblade 2 on M1 macbook pro and 10-15 fps. So disappointing
the crash of animal crossing seems also because the compability of hypervision, turn it off and no crash again.
Thanks a lot !
Hey, can you test Ori and the Will of wisps, Dead Cells and Life is Strange remastered collection on M1
can someone please tell me how I can download the animal crossing new horizon game for Ryujinx Mac ?? I already have Ryujinx ready just the game is missing
I was playing pokemon shinning pearl but after defeating the 4th gym it won’t load anymore. Y keeps loading to open the game, i have a m1 pro processor.
1x speed from base M1 I did not expect, this is actually insane. At this point, getting a Switch is just dumb. Archaic hardware when you can buy a copy and enjoy the games with better quality everywhere else (outside multiplayer and shader compilation, which only bothers the first 30 min of gaming). Better put Switch money into a Steam Deck.
Can’t wait to played Zelda!!! No wonder it wasn’t working yesterday when I downloaded on my M1 Max. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Could you make a tutorial on installing mods in games like Smash and Mario Kart? I’ve been having trouble with mods just not showing up or games crashing. It’s possible they just don’t work yet but there’s not enough documentation to make sure.
Any updates on RPCS3?
Red Dead Redemption I has a very subtle framerate and playable on Macbook M3 pro with vsync off.
Anyone know why 80% of the games download with no sound? Check my mac's sound settings and everything is find on my end, changed up the audio settings in ryujinx and nothing. If anyone can give me some advice that would be awesome.
where do you download your games from? no sites I find seem legit
@@drewcon4t hmm so seems torrent downloading is 50/50 i redownloaded pokemon violet 3 times and now works perfectly i use nsw2u its the safest site just make sure to use a torrent
@@drewcon4tsoftcobra or Nxbrew
Turned macbook air m1 on today and ryujinx has reset itself. Asking for prod keys/firmware again, lost save files. Anyone know how to get those save files back?
Figured it out, Ryujinx started using /users//.config/ryujinx for whatever reason (possibly some conflict with the way mac os expects things to work?). I simply needed to take the ryujinx folder from /users/ and replace the above.
does pico park work on m1 pro MacBook? if so using which emulator?
ryujinx is going crazy this year
Is there any updates on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the original M1 chip? That's basically the only game I want to play
Awesome stuff! Thanks for covering this. Does Nier automata work? While it's mostly consistent, 60fps would be amazing on that.
you could use crossover/parallels for nier considering it only requires like 2 gigs of ram
all we need now is how to play online via ldn , i think people complains too much even with shader the emulator is here since one week and it works better than most over emulators so
Any top notch car racing games which we could play on ryujinx?
Guys, I'll to get a Macbook for work but also to emulate some games, what do you say, do I get the Air or the Pro? Both with M1... Does the Pro make up for the higher value?
Pro is better for games. I also personally like the touch bar that the pro has, I think it’s so cool. How much better for games? Well, they’re slightly more playable. Macs really aren’t gaming computers but definitely go for the Pro if your looking to emulate basic games
go with pro I have a M1 for college which is not bad and I can play some good decent amount of games but with the pro you can pretty much play more games and has better chip
I am wondering what is better for switch emulation ds4 or a 8bitdo controller.
I've played Pokémon Sword on my M2 Air for 4hrs, and it runs great, but it freezes occasionally after long hours/minutes of gameplay.
Have you played any other game on the M2?
@@demagagegigogu Not yet, only Pokemon Sword
I do not have problem with mario kart 8 in ryujinx , i play in 60 fps with some bug sutter in the first run but after 0 issue (M1 macbook pro)
I couldn’t even find the ROM games for the Nintendo switch because it kept taking me to fake pages or scam pages saying my Mac got a virus or something so does this application not work anymore??
still working for me as of may ‘24, rom sites are cancer but many have still given me a rom at the end
@@lostsaint which website do you mostly use??
use an ad blocker
Can I ask you if I can play botw on M1 Pro with ryujinx?
I have a problem when I play pokemon scarlet on macbook m1 pro, which is that the game freezes after playing the game for 30 minutes
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on M1 Pro gets 60 easily on 4K with rare stutters (not due to shader compilation)
Edit: Never played Grand Prix on emulator, only Time Trials, I stand corrected, it is pretty unplayable. Time Trials is fine though, smooth 60
where did you download the Mario Kart ROM?
@@valeriorussotto6087 Check second link in description on the "Switch emulation on Mac just got A LOT better! Ryujinx OFFICIAL release" video
dont wanna post a link cuz youtube is annoying
Will the Metal 3 version help Apple-users with emulating Switch something?
What's monitor tool that you are using?
What is the stats app you are using????
Yes it's works but the temperature of CPU 70 degrees 🔥How can we do so that our macbooks do not heat up? I was playing Pokemon Scarlet on a Mac book pro M1 Pro
dang almost perfect
Is there a way to play Pokémon Violet on the Mac and Pokémon Scarlet on an actual switch together?
Trend words of the day:
Game is locked to 30 fps.
Shader compilation stutter.
Have you done a new video about how to use the online gameplay?
Yes I will publish this weekend.
@@Andytizer for the Mac version correct because I haven’t seen 1 on it anywhere yet.
And the MacBook Air M2 can handle too?
Do you think it's better to play BOTW on ryujinx or cemu?
cemu!
Does vsync cause you to have input lag?
Thanks for the video.
Looking forward to the covering of the "LND"-multiplayer.
So it is impossible to connect to Nintendos Online?
can u test free online games? like overwatch 2?
Having trouble with Intel Mac, i7 on bigsur. Tried MD and SMO and they both crash ryujinx
I'll go full circle and ask if Skyrim is playable. Same with Witcher 3.
Shader complaining MK8 using Ryusak simply crashes the game when trying to launch. Deleting it from Ryusak fixes it, but you have to compile the slow method way.
Are you related to Allen Tsai? The youtuber one.
ive managed to play mario kart 8 without major slowdowns. try updating the game to 1.7.2
shader compilation stutters stopped after the third race
Played mario kart 8 and it goes 60fps everytime, idk why but I love it
i would love see Dark Souls running in Ryujinx!
I tried it, it runs but the some of the textures are black
just turn off the VSync of Fire Emblem you can get stable and fluently 60fps with no issues, it doesn't need cheat (I'm using m1 pro)
Resident evil games would be awesome 😊!
How do I connect a pair of Joy-Cons as a single controller?
How about scarlet and violet and legends Arceus, because those are a total mess on the original switch itself
Yes I covered this on my previous video, runs great!
It runs really good
Of course it can. The switch is an underpowered 7 year old system
where do you download these games? torrent?
Any solution for sonic frontiers?
can you play these games without controller?
Witcher 3 please.
What about Super Smash bros Ultimate? i tried it but its quite slow for competitive play, undocked mode seems to work better but still not great, im playing it on a Macbook Pro M1 13" ( yep... the M1 model with the infamous touch bar ahahah)
On my base mac mini m1 runs it flawlessly
Botw works you just need to turn it off for the inititial boot up of the game then next time you play turn it back on it just can't get through the tomb
i crash after the load screen with it on
I don't I got it running on 4k 30 fps
@@lucygelz I have 16 gbs of ram though so maybe that's it
05:02 i see monster hunter rise , its playable or how ???
Mario Kart 8 performance is a shame especially with the new DLC and gameplay tweaks they've been doing
Splatoon 3 does not run well, the second there's any longer sight line the game slows to a crawl, and this is with shaders pre-compiled.
“Handle” is certainly a limitation of software and optimization. Of course the M1 can keep up with. 7 year old tablet.
Do you know if DOOM 2016 works?
does anywhere know a good site to get switch rooms?
How do I get past the tutorial on animal crossing new horizons without crashing?? Mac M1
Turning off the hypervisor fixed this for me