How to Download Pokemon Sword on PC

Playing your favorite Switch games on PC was a dream back in 2017 but not any more thanks to the Yuzu emulator. Yuzu is an emulator for the Nintendo Switch which you can use to play your favorite Switch games including Pokemon Sword and Shield on PC. It is developed by the same team that developed Citra, the emulator for Nintendo 3DS. Disclaimer: Usage of emulators is legal, but piracy of games is not. We DO NOT support piracy – this guide is only for educational purposes. Whenever you are emulating games make sure you use BIOS and game files from your system and games.

How to Play Pokemon Sword and Shield on PC using Yuzu Emulator

Nintendo Switch emulation has become easy due to the Yuzu emulator. Here’s how you can emulate it on your PC:

• Step 1: Download and install the Yuzu emulator. Here’s an optional step – during installation, you could hit check on the “Install yuzu Early Access” if you are a patron of the yuzu early access. Early Access gives you features that aren’t available for regular users yet.
• Step 2: In order to play the games you’ll need to dump the keys from your Nintendo Switch into the yuzu folder of the emulator. You could look up videos for how to extract the keys from your Nintendo Switch.
• Step 3: Before you start the game you’ll also need to set up your controller. You can do that by clicking the “Emulation” option then “Configure”. Then in the next popup click on “Controls”. Then select the player whom you wanna map the controls for and then tap the buttons from your controller or keyboard to map the buttons.
• Step 4: To get the game you’ll need to extract your copy of the game into an xci or nsp file.
• Step 5: Now to play the game you can simply drag and drop the game in the emulator and you are good to go.

If you followed the above steps correctly your game should be up and running in no time.

That covers everything for how you can play Pokemon Sword and Shield on PC. While you are here, check out our guide on how to catch and evolve Salandit in Sword/Shield right here.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield Pc

So, you want to play Pokemon Sword and Shield on pc? Or maybe you are more interested in Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee on pc?

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This is the right place for you!

So first of all, is it possibile to play this games on a PC, without owning a switch or the game? YES!!!

Do you need a super powerful pc? NO, but because we are emulating the Switch with a Emulatore the better is your Hardware the smoother will the game play.

Now the big question, do I need to spend money to buy the emulator? No, the emulatore is free.

Hardware Requirements

• Our recommended specifications don’t guarantee perfect performance in most games, but rather strive to provide a cost effective recommendation while still considering performance.
• Mobile CPUs will not reach the same performance as their desktop counterparts due to thermal, power, and technical limitations.
• GPUs must support OpenGL 4.5 (or higher) & OpenGL Compatibility profile, or Vulkan 1.1.
  To find out if your GPU meets these requirements, visit //opengl.gpuinfo.org or //vulkan.gpuinfo.org/ and check your GPU details.

If you are interested in playing any game for Switch on pc here is your guide
If you don’t have a NINTENDO SWITCH and THE GAME you are downloading you are doing an illegal thing. So we suggest buying it.

Pokemon Shield - Nintendo Switch

$59.99
$51.84

as of January 2, 2023 2:01 pm

First of all I want to remind everyone that if you don’t have a Nintendo switch and the Pokemon game you are about to download, you are about to commit an illegal act. We have created this guide only for those who already have the Nintendo switch and the game and just want to emulate it on the PC

Playing Pokemon sword and shield on pc for free is very easy. What do we need?

1. Yuzu the Nintendo Switch emulator

Perfect let’s start immediately:

Let’s go to Yuzu’s website and download their emulator for pc, after downloading the emulator you have to install it, the procedure is simple and intuitive, there is no need to do any type of operation or change.

Now that we have downloaded the emulator, installed it and started it, we are at a good point to play any Nintendo Switch game on our PC.

2. Download Pokemon Shied & Sword for PC online digital

Now we are going to download the ROM of the game, I highly recommend downloading the ROM in xci format, for the simple fact that it is the ideal format if after times also do a randomization process of all the wild Pokemon, trainers, gyms and possibly nuzlocke.

On this site you can find the ROM you have: 

Pokemon Sword and Shield Digital Room for free HERE

We suggest to download it with Torrent, becouse the game is very Big, and if you include all the patches is quite a long download.

To download the torrent we suggest using this free torrent program is you dont have one already QBittorent, the tool is free.

Here is the game

Pokemon Sword and Shield + Update 1.3.2 + 2DLC [NSZ] 14.89 GB

Pokemon Shield + Update 1.3.2 + 2 DLC [NSP] 12.46 GB

Pokemon Sword and Shield + Update 1.3.2 + 2DLC [XCI] (Patched) 24.8 GB

Yuzu Product Key  Yuzu Roms  – Yuzu Switch Mods – Yuzu Firmware – Download RYUJINX

On Yuzu Roms we just have to find and download the rom we want to use on Yuzu, the process is quite intuitive, no matter which of the downloaded sub sites will all be fine, I suggest Torrent for sheer convenience.
Once downloaded, simply extract it and tell Yuzu where it is from the main screen of the open program.
And here you can play your fantastic Pokemon without problems

If you have any questions please contact me on my discord, I will be happy to help

Are you ready to play Pokemon sword online?