How to Download and Play Nintendo Switch games on PC (Windows and Linux)
An easy and quick setup for emulating Nintendo Switch games on PC (on Windows and Linux systems).
Keep in mind that accurate Switch emulation requires a fairly good CPU. I also recommend using an adblocker for this guide.
Open your Yuzu installation folder and move the two .key files to /Yuzu/Keys
Setup your games folder
Create a folder for your Switch games
Open Yuzu Emulator, double click to add a games folder and select the folder you created.
Setup input emulation
Open Yuzu>Emulation>Configure>Controls
Select your preferred input device, the emulated controller, and assign a key to each button on the emulated controller, then press save.
Graphics settings
The default graphics settings should work well enough
If you're having issues with a specific game try switching between Vulkan and Opengl
If you're facing performance issues, make sure asynchronous GPU emulation and shader building are enabled. You can also try changing the cpu and graphics accuracy.
Download Games
You can download Nintendo Switch game files from Ziperto
Extract the files
If you're on Windows, you can use 7zip to extract multiple .rar files.
Move them to your games folder
Alternatively
You can alternatively just download a repack from Fitgirl's small switch library, which has everything setup already. I only recommend this if there's only one switch game you want to play, and you're on Windows 10.
The Yuzu Emulator project is now dead as Nintendo took the authors to court and won a massive amount 😭. There is another Yuzu project up for preservation purposes. You might want to update the links on here/info to point to this at least.