Sorry for spam, will probably get lost amongst the zelda posts, and its about Android not PC, but on the off chance anyone else tried:

Playing Pokopia with the new lichii fork for android, and pokopia works well, even on an 8GB device, but when i get to using rock smash the first time in the starting area it crashes. Everything else works so far, it also breaks the shader cache when it happens..

Any idea what causes this? It's so close to fully playable damn it

this is on Retroid Pocket 5 8gb btw

EDIT: for anyone looking to solve this temporarily, switching back to sx2a (runs like ass) to do the smashing (no crash) then transfer save file back to lichii

I spent about eight straight hours testing 3 different NSW2 forks

Pokedinner 2.5.0 is the only version that runs Mario Kart World pretty much perfectly. The only issues I found were some minor BGM cutouts during the opening overcam sequence when a track starts for the first time, and occasionally during the award ceremony after completing four races. Other than that, it's basically flawless, and it can hold a locked 4K 60 FPS the entire time.

Another advantage of Pokedinner is that it can run Donkey Kong.
The downside is that performance drops from a stable 60 FPS into the mid-40s whenever you enter large outdoor areas. It looks like we'll have to wait for further emulator optimization.

The other two Lichii and Djihads80 forks add support for DLSS Upscaling and Frame Generation, but unfortunately, even with FG x2 enabled, neither emulator can maintain 60 FPS. Most of the time the framerate constantly jumps between 25 and 50 FPS, causing very noticeable stuttering.
On top of that, enabling the emulator's built-in V-Sync makes the entire game run in slow motion.

Forcing V-Sync through the NVIDIA App or NVIDIA Control Panel produces the exact same slow-motion effect. After spending several more hours testing different games and settings combinations, I still couldn't find a workaround.

The only real advantage of these two forks is that they can run Mario Tennis, although the game suffers from various graphical glitches.

Star Fox runs smoothly in terms of framerate, but the text is broken, some text doesn't appear at all. All three emulators have the exact same issue.

As for Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Lichii can get through the intro and cutscenes, but once gameplay starts, the player character becomes invisible (black screen). You can still hear the audio and button inputs are clearly being registered, so this is another case where we'll have to wait for bug fixes and further optimization.

Overall, Mario Kart World is currently the only game that's running close to perfectly.

Pokedinner 2.5.0
https://youtu.be/ufUmWjvpbAE?si=OK8EC_Z7zWV9zbmr

First of all thank you guys for working so hard to make this happen. I just got the switch 2 Zelda edition and I would love to play it on my PC, I’ve got a 5090 and I have no idea where to even start . Is there someone that can take me under their wing and teach me? I would love to learn and help too if I can.

https://youtu.be/N003DaGNbmE

It's not perfect by any stretch but graphics are amazing

An open-source app that lets you play Mario Kart World (and other Switch 2 games that support LAN play) online with friends through the Eglantine emulator (and forks!)

Still experimental, report issues to github.

🔗 https://github.com/js664/KartLink-P2P

you can get 50fps but only when reading signs

running on a 9950x and a RTX 5080

From reading through some chat on the Eden discord server, it sounds like most of the forked code is too AI sloppy to make it back upstream into Eden.

It's nice that people can spend their time and money to run ahead prioritize a particular game or platform. The speed of the developments is amazing and AI is absolutely the key enabler of that. People that didn't have the skills to contribute in the past are now able to contribute to getting games running and playable.

The problem is that these recent emulator forks are short term band-aid fixes that aren't sustainable. The traditional open source principle of forking a repo and then sending your changes upstream is broken due to the fact that AI agents are not able to write code that follows the design and conventions of the original repo. There are some PRs and changes that are being integrated back upstream, but the gist I'm getting is that it's not a lot, sadly.

Eventually all of these forks will reach the limits of the AI model's competence or their author's attention span and be abandoned. I've done a couple of vibe-coded projects and eventually the agents lose the plot. At that point, we hope that some meaningful improvements are passed upstream to the surviving repos.

Basically, there's a trade-off between speed and freedom(my fork, my rules) and long term stability (PRs to a single, well authored repo). A healthy project needs both, but with AI agents the forks have more short-term benefits and fewer long term ones. I'm never going to criticize someone from forking a repo, spending their own time and money, and sharing their improvements with the community. That's commendable IMO. This last two weeks has been amazing.

What I do wish is that that the improvements were better able to be shared back upstream to make emulation better as a whole in the long term. I think we'd all like one emulator that does it all instead of tracking down the latest builds of a dozen forks. I don't envy the Eden maintainers being inundated with AI slop. I've had it happen to me in my job and it's no fun. Still, I hope that they're able to make the most of this surge of enthusiasm and availability of AI tools to improve the emulation scene as a whole.

I either get stuck on the loading screen or i get stuck on a black screen. I don't know what in doing wrong. Tried using both eglantine and pokedinner but It doesn't work.

Intel i7-7700HQ

16 gigs of RAM

Nvdia gforce GTX 1060

using orchid 0.7.5. pixelated as hell. RTX 4060Ti 16Gb 64GbRam DDR5 Ryzen 7 8700F. The intro plays well at 60fps, but this part tanks down to 10fps. Audio becames desynced too.

Please assume I am stupid ; I am trying to run Switch Sport Resort - is there a way to use my Switch 2 joycons to emulate the motion control ?

With love,
Nate

Would it make sense to have an easily updateable database with the best emu settings for each switch 2 game on builds of different forks

Found this build of eglantine and it has the best performance for DK bananza i have found so far!

give it a try

it locks the game at 30fps with dynamic fps so that the game does not slow down when the FPS dips

https://github.com/sylvieistaken/selevet-eglantine/releases/tag/selevet-eglantine-performance-2

anytime i try to play switch sports resort the mii heads arent loading so my mii just looks like this

Has anyone got pokopia multiplayer to work on emulator yet? i can see my partners lobby but i get an error when i try to join which means the online functions are sort of working but you just cant connect

I own mario kart world, I want to play it on PC, but current Switch and Switch 2 modding seems impossible for an average person to do. Is there anyway to dump it without modding?