Skyline is an experimental Switch emulator for Android devices, which was initially capable of playing Sonic Mania, Celeste, and parts of Super Mario Odyssey. In April 2018, it was reported that another emulator, Ryujinx, was initially able to play part of Cave Story. Ryujinx Logo of Ryujinx Main UI of Ryujinx, running on Windows In a statement to PC Gamer, the developers of Yuzu said that they were interested in potential optimizations to the emulator for use on the Steam Deck. The emulator briefly supported online functionality, but it was removed shortly thereafter. The emulator is made by the developers of the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra, with significant code shared between the projects. Yuzu was announced to be in development on January 14, 2018, less than a year after the Switch's release. Yuzu (sometimes stylized in lowercase) is a free and open-source emulator of the Nintendo Switch, developed in C++. Main article: Yuzu (emulator) Logo of Yuzu The coverage and development of the emulators has attracted notable attention from the industry, including Nintendo, as well as Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH which, at the request of publishing companies partnered with them concerned about piracy, has developed a digital rights management measure intended to prevent play of emulated Switch games. Switch emulators have been widely noted by video games journalists for the swift and significant progress of their abilities to accurately emulate the console, as they are already able to run existing and new titles for the console in a playable state, sometimes within days of their release, as well as able to run on a variety of devices, including PCs running Microsoft Windows and Linux, and the Steam Deck. Multiple emulators are in development, the most well-known being Yuzu and Ryujinx. Emulators of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo's current eighth-generation video game console, have been in development since 2017, less than a year after the console's release.

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