Backward compatibility has been one of the Nintendo Switch 2‘s major talking points, but Nintendo has revealed the console doesn’t natively run Switch games. Instead, Nintendo designed its own ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Nintendo’s fired off a new volley of legal notices against the Switch emulation scene. Close to a dozen GitHub pages were hit with DMCA takedown requests over the weekend. However, while several of ...

Unlike with the original Nintendo Switch, which saw both Yuzu and Ryujinx release within a year or so of the console's launch, don't expect there to be emulators for the Nintendo Switch 2 anytime soon ...

Forget the limited NSO library. A new technical breakthrough just turned your Nintendo Switch into a massive, free retro-gaming vault. A new native port of the Dolphin emulator has officially landed ...

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Zelda fans rejoice, as it is now possible to play "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" on the Nintendo Switch. It's one game fans have been requesting to be ported to the console for years, but it ...

Wind the clock back to 2024 and Nintendo’s legal attack on Switch emulators RyuJinx and Yuzu. The emulators had incurred the wrath of the notoriously litigious company by, in some cases, openly ...

An interview with Switch 2 devs revealed that the Nintendo Switch 2 relies partially on emulation to play Switch 1 games. The two systems do not have compatible hardware, so native backwards ...