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Pokémon Shield
Summary
Pokémon Sword and Shield are currently in a playable state.
In order to have the best possible experience, please follow the instructions below:
- Dump and use your NAND and keys from your console following our quickstart guide.
- Under
Controls, use either thePro ControllerorDual Joyconscontroller options along with setting theConsole ModetoDocked.
As with most emulators, your in-game performance is highly dependent on the power of your system.
HARDWARE ISSUES
- A horizontal line effect on characters may occur while playing this game in OpenGL on non-NVIDIA based hardware. AMD users in Windows may switch to Vulkan to fix this.
- Intel GPU users will not get reliable performance. Due to being integrated graphics is generally built on the efficiency and power-saving perspective. The use of dedicated GPUs is highly recommended.
known issue
- Time base event like poke job not work properly (this can be solve with CUSTOM RTC setting)
- crash occur in some specific scene for some user (it can bypass with disable multicore)
Known Issues
| Title | Created | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|
| Pokemon Sword & Shield - Running in Tall Grass isn't possible | November 15, 2019 | November 30, 2022 |
| Missing HLE service command 'SetOperationMode' in 'ISystemLocalCommunicationService' (ldn:s) | November 15, 2019 | May 1, 2020 |
| No 3D output in Sword/Shield on AMD | November 16, 2019 | November 23, 2019 |
| Softlocks in pokemon sword and shield | November 16, 2019 | January 18, 2020 |
| Pokémon SwSh Box screen not rendering properly | November 16, 2019 | February 27, 2021 |
| Pokemon Sword & Shield - Weird graphical glitch | November 17, 2019 | January 18, 2020 |
| Wireframe on certain models in Sword/Shield on AMD | November 20, 2019 | September 22, 2020 |
| Some games crash seconds after being ingame | November 25, 2019 | June 18, 2020 |
Compatibility
| Build Date | Tested By | Hardware | Version | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/24/2021 | on 11/24/2021 | AMD Ryzen 5 3500 6-Core Processor Radeon RX 570 Series Windows |
Mainline Build 2655193 |
Great
|
| 12/15/2021 | tangyuanyiyao on 12/21/2021 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz Radeon RX 580 Series Windows |
EarlyAccess Build d63ed47 |
Okay
|
| 11/9/2021 | NeM on 11/10/2021 | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2 Windows |
Mainline Build ec1b5f1 |
Intro/Menu
|
| 01/2/2022 | zzj1554 on 01/19/2022 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10875H CPU @ 2.30GHz GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2 Windows |
Mainline Build 3200520 |
Perfect
|
| 11/29/2021 | Poas on 11/30/2021 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 Windows |
Mainline Build d969cc2 |
Perfect
|
| 12/9/2021 | ZOLOTOV41 on 12/19/2021 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Windows |
Mainline Build c9e536c |
Perfect
|
| 12/5/2021 | figure on 12/13/2021 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 Linux |
Mainline Build ea85b30 |
Perfect
|
| 11/17/2021 | TheBrutalSkull on 12/09/2021 | AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2 Windows |
Mainline Build 5ecccbe |
Great
|
| 12/19/2021 | Alex_Jacobs on 12/20/2021 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz Intel(R) Iris(R) Plus Graphics Windows |
Mainline Build c25e33d |
Okay
|
| 01/17/2022 | Naldo on 01/18/2022 | 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics Windows |
Mainline Build c5647b8 |
Perfect
|
Compatibility
Great
Game functions with minor graphical or audio glitches and is playable from start to finish. May require some workarounds.
Release(s)
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