Nintendo and piracy have been two things that've gone hand in hand for a long time now given Nintendo's vast catalog of classic games and its criticized methods of making those games accessible to modern users, so it's not hard to imagine Nintendo and Denuvo partnering up in efforts to protect against Switch games. You can join the discussion on the Yuzu emulator's latest update on the OC3D Forums.

Starlink – softlock fixed, game progresses further.

Ultimate – fighter select jitteriness / flickers fixed

All Unreal Engine 4 games – motion jitteriness fixed.

Skyrim – audio looping fixed, game progresses further.

Onimusha Warriors, Tales of Vesperia, The Messenger – game logic fixed.

Toki Tori, FF7, Diablo 3, MEGA39s, A Hat in Time – distorted audio fixed.

Zelda Link's Awakening – miniature placing fixed.

Pokémon Sword and Shield – all softlocks fixed, running in tall grass fixed, hair salons fixed, animation looping fixed.

The one-line bug fix for Toki Tori and Shield managed to address the following issues within Yuzu. Other recent updates to Yuzu include recent memory usage tweaks and the aforementioned fixes for Super Smash Bros. Right now, the Pokemon Sword and Shield compatible version of Yuzu is available exclusively to the emulator's Patreon supporters, though access to this version of the emulator will be made available to everyone in time.

Another example of this is how a bug fix Final Fantasy 8 was able to male Super Smash Bros. This highlights the need to address emulation bugs within all Switch games on the Yuzu emulator, as bugs within unpopular games could easily impact AAA releases like Pokemon Sword and Shield. These games both became playable after an issue was discovered deep within Yuzu's code, which was uncovered thanks to the efforts of a developer called bunnei, who found a floating-point problem in the emulator's CPU emulation while playing Toki Tori. With the latest Early Access build of the Yuzu Nintendo Switch Emulator, Pokemon Sword and Shield have become fully playable thanks to new bug fixes and the addressed softlocks within the two games.

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