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Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub
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this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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Got Eden on my Steam Deck, runs so good. Nintendo could learn a thing or two tbh.
Emulators are legal, there's enough precedent for that, Nintendo's just butthurt that their games run better on 3rd party emulators than they do on their own hardware.
tbf, the Steam Deck's hardware blows the Switch away so of course they play better
That doesn't mean much when it comes to emulation tbh. If the emulator is shit, power won't help.
With the caveat that an emulator cannot copy any copyrighted code to use in the emulation. They try to add as much proprietary code and encryption that it's nearly impossible to emulate without breaking the law.
It's scummy, but people have and will continue to find ways around it. But even the smallest of copyright infringements will result in Nintendo's wrath.
Which is why so many emulators require you to somehow acquire the console's actual BIOS binary yourself (by manually dumping it from your own hardware, of course, and by no other means at all) and drop it into a file folder for the emulator to use.
Any emulation pisses off Nintendo, they just can't do anything about it until you're infringing on their 95 years of copyright.
I'm not sure about good. It somehow runs games a little worse than Yuzu did.
It has no trouble playing Super Mario Wonder at full speed and 1080p, that's good enough in my books.
On my PC, sure. But I was easily playing Switch games on my Deck, which... Well... Performance is lacking.
Huh, runs totally fine on my OLED Deck with the CryoDeck enhancements.
CryoUtilities. I'm not using that. What does it do?
tbf, eden is a new development and pretty young compared to yuzu and how mature it was. at least afaik
I know. But I still find it odd, since Eden is a fork of Yuzu, and not something built from the ground up.