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Pokémon Sword
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 |
Compatibility
| Build Date | Tested By | Hardware | Version | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/2/2022 | SoapDash_1 on 01/02/2022 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz GeForce GTX 1070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 Windows |
Mainline Build 3200520 |
Bad
|
| 12/9/2021 | Ronniel_Portorreal on 12/12/2021 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 Windows |
Mainline Build c9e536c |
Okay
|
| 01/7/2022 | Lubiandres on 01/08/2022 | AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics Windows |
Mainline Build 4e9911a |
Okay
|
| 01/8/2022 | richard_williamson on 01/10/2022 | AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Windows |
EarlyAccess Build d323d56 |
Perfect
|
| 12/6/2021 | Wang_Vergil on 12/07/2021 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Windows |
Mainline Build 88a3c0b |
Okay
|
| 12/31/2021 | Coolerice on 01/01/2022 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10100F CPU @ 3.60GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Windows |
Mainline Build 6591103 |
Perfect
|
| 12/25/2021 | Kermit_The_Frog on 12/26/2021 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9600K CPU @ 3.70GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Windows |
Mainline Build 6da1884 |
Okay
|
| 12/5/2021 | cuneo_45 on 12/19/2021 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz Radeon RX 580 Series Windows |
EarlyAccess Build 3831d4c |
Okay
|
| 12/7/2021 | Gustavo_Henrique4 on 12/08/2021 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Windows |
Mainline Build ba7c602 |
Okay
|
| 01/3/2022 | Peter_Chan on 01/03/2022 | 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K @ 3.60GHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2 Windows |
Mainline Build a7a5be1 |
Great
|
Compatibility
Okay
Game functions with major graphical or audio glitches, but game is playable from start to finish with workarounds.
Release(s)
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