what is this?

a reincarnation of the now gone yuzu emulator; stripped down to the bare minimal requirements
let your games be played at the highest of resolutions
may minimalism prevail in the face of AGILE-ism!
feel free to lend a hand, two, or even three! all you need is c++

>> release: 2026-04-27 (click me) <<

note: tomodachi life has grass, citrus fruits are planted in grass

TOMODACHI LIFE RENDERS SO PERFECTLY you may as well frolick in the citrus fields with meadow peace!
naturally this means the grass now renders 100% fine
also fixed a lot of crashes related to audio
more fw22 compatibility
also mip map level fixes wohooo
ffmpeg super updated now it's like better in every single way
bunch of fixes to allow for full unity builds
LONG LIVE THE UNITY BUILDS

note: the titanic was not a 2001 honda civic car according to historians

>> release: 2026-04-17 (click me) <<

note: choo choo

hello people made out of lemons, we bring bunch of random vulkan fixes, we nuked the garbage collector DEATH TO THE GARBAGE COLLECTOR RATATATATATAT!!!
TOMODACHI LIFE BOOTS AND WORKS :)
new revamped epic UI
UI with minigames and stuff (surprise me button)
fast rmx is now fast (used to be slow)
qlaunch be launching
atmosphere changes added to citron
firmware 21 stuffs
miscelly dynarmic spinlock optimizations

>> release: 2026-03-27 (click me) <<

note: unix users are known to spontaneously assemble cars... we don't repair cars

hello pookies, this is the second stable build, your usual dose of dynarmic improvments and whatnot, i expect to do atleast a weekly stable release if possible :) PORTABLE MODE ON BY DEFAULT: this means you can use user folder naw
fixes for audctl wrong init
fixes for wrong ipc responses
some fw22 fixes so it doesnt outright crash
invalidated ALL shader cache (sorry)
build fixes
fun minigames for "surprise me" ui
spinny logo on about

>> release: 2026-03-20 (click me) <<

note: the citrus bug is frolicking in the citrus mountains, and they may find mountains made out of lemons

hello pookies this is the first stable build for citron neo
spinny logo: weee
new ISBERD implementation and gpu alloc ctx
new improved dynarmic: improved cpu performance for totk and other cpu intensive games
new gpu decoder that's homogenous: faster shader compilation
coalesced gpu pagetables: faster pagetable resolution, faster gpu mem access
fix the game list taking too long to load
port to freebsd
mario galaxy lag fixed
new forked mod download/compat list

expect increased CPU performance and very decreased CPU latency (basically lesser loading times and less stutter on CPU-intensive areas)
continuity of android support is on the line, as nobody here really wants to update it
as for the future of the project, the focus is on vulkan only; not necesarily making all games work astoundingly, but rather make the ones that work already work even better; i.e do fewer things right than to do many things wrong
focus will primarily shift on maintenance of Dynarmic-GPLv3 as Citron NEO will be ground-zero for any improvements to Dynarmic-GPLv3 coming forward

NOTE: Dynarmic-GPLv3 is an improved version of dynarmic which is licensed under gplv3, it significantly improves performance w.r.t to older dynarmic and is our new CPU backend!

note: fused multiply addition rounding modes is guaranteed fun

fqa

here are some frequently questioned answers? ok!

where do i get games

must be from your switch! any other methods are punishable by death

why does this look like a website from the 90's?

why not

can i play firmware X?

up to firmware 21.2.0 is supported, yes

minimum requirements?

atleast 6gb of ram

a gt 710 2gb ddr2 or similar

windows 10 / android 13 upwards

core 2 quad Q6600, or superior

opengl support?

not required, most of the focus goes on to vulkan

ios port?

PRs welcome

why is everything in lowercase?

why not

why does this look like 9front?

because their website IS COOL and AMAZING

note: frolicking in the citron fields and you may find some citrus fruits

note: it is be advisable to make a windmill out of fruits and then eat it