Complete guide for maximum performance on Ryujinx Download links for Keys, Firmware, Switch Games and Shaders

Play all of your favorite Nintendo Switch games portrayed in a way you never thought possible with the Ryujinx emulator! 4k 60fps with smooth game play on all your favorite titles.

By Ethan Wrenn

Ryujinx Full Installation and Set Up Guide

Hello and welcome! In this post, we will help you to get the Ryujinx Nintendo Switch Emulator up and running. Please read the post till the very end to maximize performance. Links for keys, firmware, switch games and shaders at the end of the post. Alternatively you can check out one of our previous Nintendo Switch emulator guides for the Yuzu Emulator by visiting this link: https://ethanwrenn.com/complete-guide-for-maximum-performance-on-yuzu-download-links-for-keys-firmware-switch-games-and-shaders/

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System Requirements

In order to use Ryujinx your computer will need:

At least 8GB RAM
A video card/GPU that supports OpenGL 4.5 or higher, or Vulkan.
Your Switch keys and either your dumped firmware or recent game cartridge untrimmed XCI
Your dumped Nintendo Switch games or homebrew
A 64-bit Operating System
OS-specific dependencies installed

Installing the Emulator

1. Download Ryujinx from https://ryujinx.org/download. After you’ve done that, you can install the Early Access builds that we give out here for free too but if you want you can keep using the mainline versions.

2. Now that you’ve downloaded the Ryujinx archive, open it and extract the contents of the publish folder onto your hard drive in the location of your choice.

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3. Navigate to where you extracted the Ryujinx files, and double-click on Ryujinx.exe. This will launch the emulator and you will be met with the following message (don’t worry; this is normal!):

4. Click OK on the warning box.
Now that Ryujinx has been launched, the proper folders have been created for you in your %appdata% folder.

5. Click File at the top left of the Ryujinx window, and then click Open Ryujinx Folder.

6. Navigate down into the system subfolder and copy your prod.keys file here. The file/folder structure should look like this (JohnDoe substituted for your username):

7. Close and reopen Ryujinx so that the prod.keys file is validated.
You’re done installing keys!

Installation of Firmware

Now that your keys are installed, it’s time to install a firmware. Make sure you have an untrimmed XCI file of a recent game cartridge you dumped, or have compiled your dumped firmware into a ZIP file. Download links for firmware can be found at the bottom of the page.

1. Open Ryujinx. There should be no warning about KEYS.md anymore; if you still get the warning, go back through the prod.keys steps and ensure you have placed the file correctly.

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2. Now that Ryujinx is open, click Tools > Firmware > Install from XCI/ZIP

This brings up the “Choose the firmware file to open” window.

3. Using the Ryujinx window, navigate to the location of your dumped XCI file and click Open. You will be asked to confirm whether you want to install the firmware. Make sure your prod.keys are at least as new as the firmware you are installing!
(Your firmware version number may vary)

4. Click Yes. You will see a message that the firmware is installing:

and was successfully installed:

5. Click OK. If all went well, you will now see your firmware version listed as the “System Version” in the bottom right hand corner of the main Ryujinx window.

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Complete guide for maximum performance on Yuzu + Download links for Keys, Firmware, Switch Games and Shaders

Ethan Wrenn8 August 2021

Play all of your favorite Nintendo Switch games portrayed in a way you never thought possible with the Yuzu emulator! 4k 60fps with smooth game play on all your favorite titles.

Adding Your Games to Ryujinx

Make sure to check out one of our previous Nintendo Switch emulator guides for the Yuzu Emulator by visiting this link: https://ethanwrenn.com/complete-guide-for-maximum-performance-on-yuzu-download-links-for-keys-firmware-switch-games-and-shaders/

Now that you have keys and firmware ready to go. Time to add your games! Download links for Nintendo Switch ROMs and games can be found at the bottom of the page.

With Ryujinx open, click on Options > Settings. This takes you straight to the General tab.

There are two different methods in which you can add a Game Directory in this window.

1st Method: Type the absolute path of the folder containing your games into the path field and click Add.

2nd Method: Without typing anything into the path field, click Add.

This brings up the navigation window. Navigate to the folder containing your games (e.g. D:\Switch Games) and click Add.

1. Whichever method you chose, click Save to save the game directory setting.

2. Your games will now show up in the main Ryujinx window.

Download Links

Here are the links for people looking to download the necessary keys, firmware, games shaders and more.

You can download the Ryujinx Emulator by visiting: https://ryujinx.org/download

Keys – aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tZWRpYWZpcmUuY29tL2ZpbGUvbGRzYmNza2J0MHoxMGt2L3Byb2Qua2V5cy9maWxl

Firmware – aHR0cHM6Ly9kYXJ0aHN0ZXJuaWUubmV0L3N3aXRjaC1maXJtd2FyZXMv

List of websites to get switch games from – aHR0cHM6Ly9ueGJyZXcuY29tLwoKaHR0cHM6Ly9uc3cydS5jb20vCgpodHRwczovL3d3dy56aXBlcnRvLmNvbS8KCmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNvZnRjb2JyYS5jb20vCgpodHRwczovL25zd2dhbWUuY29tLw==

Shaders – aHR0cHM6Ly9kb2NzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20vc3ByZWFkc2hlZXRzL2QvMTdNNm1ZLVRZb28weGxzd3JOSW5SZHVyNGJ1VWFKTVM5cHRYekxoR3hhSEEvZWRpdCNnaWQ9Mzk2MDE2NTA3

Decrypt Links – Put the above strings in https://www.base64decode.org to get direct links

And that’s it. That’s the guide to maximize performance in Yuzu. If I missed something or messed something up, don’t hesitate to tell me about it in the comments section.

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