In December 2019, Yuzu added an experimental Vulkan renderer to its Early Access build and brought it over to its mainline builds.

Two years after the removal, the feature was finally readded under the codename 'Project A.R.T'. After initially adding support for beyond-native resolution, the feature was removed again due to stability issues and inconsistent behaviour on different GPU vendors shortly after. Yuzu also offers a resolution rescaling feature that simulates docked, undocked and beyond-native resolutions. The implementation will eventually be replaced with one that allows the use of local BCAT files dumped from a Nintendo Switch. This feature was later removed due to being non-functional. Yuzu used a network service called Boxcat as a replacement for Nintendo's BCAT dynamic content network. Originally, Yuzu only supported test programs and homebrew.

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, 10 months after the release of the Nintendo Switch. Yuzu (sometimes stylized in lowercase) is a free and open-source emulator of the Nintendo Switch, developed in C++.

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