Animal Crossing: New Horizons Playable!
Added 2020-04-14 23:02:36 +0000 UTC
Good day Patrons! We’ve got another exciting update for you – we’re now booting Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and it’s working pretty well! You can expect the game to be fairly playable at reasonable performance on good hardware! Coupled with our very recent Memory Manager release, you can also expect this game to use a very manageable amount of RAM!
As a disclaimer, we have not tested this game end-to-end, and there are still several obvious graphical glitches. This game is also not working well on our Vulkan renderer, so AMD performance will be sub-par.
Instructions
- Update to the latest yuzu Early Access build.
- Install any update to Animal Crossing. At this time, the base game does not boot. However, any subsequent update (e.g. Animal Crossing v1.1.0 through v1.1.4) will work. If you need help installing the update, see these instructions.
- Add this patch (attached to this post) to Animal Crossing’s "mod" folder in yuzu. This is currently necessary to get past an initial crash on boot. Add this mod by right-clicking Animal Crossing in your game list, clicking "Open Mod Data Location", next simply extract the patch into this directory, formatting is as shown in the example below:

- That’s all! Animal Crossing should boot and be playable! If you experience any crashes, we highly recommend that you turn OFF real-time audio. This can be changed by going to Emulation → Configure → Audio, and unchecking "Enable real-time audio". We also highly recommend that you use the OpenGL renderer at this time.
This is hot off the press, and as such – we haven’t really had enough time to test the game fully and fix common issues. The above patch was discovered by ogniK5377, one of yuzu’s resident reverse-engineering experts. We’re still working on a better solution to not need this modification, and hopefully will have a proper fix soon!
We hope you enjoy playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons in yuzu, and please let us know how it works for you! Expect there to be minor bugs – but hopefully these do not hinder gameplay too much. We’re working actively on fixing these issues, so expect improvements in the coming days in yuzu Early Access and mainline builds soon thereafter!
As always – thank you for your support, and stay safe!
- The yuzu development team
Sweet can't wait to try
2020-10-20 02:32:20 +0000 UTC
still crashing on startup
2020-06-27 17:00:17 +0000 UTC
I have updated 1.02 version, and Still not working for me. Stuck at Launch.
2020-05-18 06:46:36 +0000 UTC
KK 방문 후 재생할 수 없습니다 ... 모두 아무 키에도 응답하지 않았습니다.
2020-05-13 16:18:20 +0000 UTC
Thank you. But there is a bug. No text displayed in Nook Shopping(( Yuzu 251. AMD Ryzen 5 2600, Radeon RX 580 8GB.
2020-05-12 01:43:32 +0000 UTC
you use bootcamp into windows
Threegale
2020-05-09 22:51:37 +0000 UTC
I can't play after K.K's visit... everyone just stopped no response to any key
2020-05-07 10:15:52 +0000 UTC
May I know where can I get the game?
2020-05-03 07:47:09 +0000 UTC
Go here and download the latest bypass boot crash for ACNH: https://yuzu-emu.org/wiki/switch-mods/
2020-04-29 23:06:12 +0000 UTC
Thank you, worked fine for me with Animal Crossing NH version 1.14. Version 1.20 isn't launching so far.
Matthias Huß
2020-04-26 11:18:04 +0000 UTC
Make sure you've dumped your own switch's title and prod.keys properly. Check the log for yuzu if you aren't sure what is wrong: AppData\Roaming\yuzu\log
Joe Strika
2020-04-23 13:18:10 +0000 UTC
Can play, but speed is at 50% during cutscenes. Overall, tolerable. :D
2020-04-23 07:50:21 +0000 UTC
im stuck at launching game portion. no sure what the issue. running 1.14 v and have place the Mod file correctly
2020-04-22 08:30:09 +0000 UTC
slow FPS 8/9 FPS cannot play :(
2020-04-19 09:53:39 +0000 UTC
EA 404 - Had some good success with Sonic Team Racing. Started up, got to race track and looked good but couldn't race. Controls not responding. Well done though!! (UPDATE) since 417, I can play now. Cool beans!
2020-04-18 21:59:53 +0000 UTC
Hi, is there a way to play it on a mac?
2020-04-18 14:19:20 +0000 UTC
Ok it works well for me now! Its just super slow for now when outside (8/10 fps) with the early access 401!
2020-04-18 14:05:43 +0000 UTC
Works great. I was able to make a new character and so did my wife on separate profiles. But when I try to "Call Resident", it says there's no one available to call. Any help on this? Im not sure if it's just not detecting a 2nd controller or what
2020-04-18 02:47:40 +0000 UTC
stuck on launching. how do i fix it ?
2020-04-17 19:45:45 +0000 UTC
Looking forward to Crash Team Racing working soon. Keep up the good work guys.
2020-04-17 17:58:13 +0000 UTC
Same. I let it run for 1h and nothing
2020-04-17 17:06:34 +0000 UTC
I saw a base64 for the 1.1.4 NSP on reddit. Not sure where but a decent search may yield you results.
2020-04-17 16:08:58 +0000 UTC
any base64 decode link for the 1.14 NSP or NCA please?
2020-04-17 13:35:02 +0000 UTC
hey, im new to yuzu... i have the game running in open gl with real time audio off. i have i 7 9 gen and rtx 2070..... the game is chugging super hard.... like cant get above 18-22 fps.... looking for any tips to get my fps up
2020-04-17 12:56:39 +0000 UTC
I want to install an early version
2020-04-17 05:41:49 +0000 UTC
please can't find the token i'm new to patreom
2020-04-17 05:40:33 +0000 UTC
how can i get game?
2020-04-17 01:59:21 +0000 UTC
Is there any way to connect to the internet for flying to other islands?
2020-04-16 17:07:02 +0000 UTC
wont go past the "launching" screen :(
2020-04-16 03:34:17 +0000 UTC
not sure :/
2020-04-16 02:38:14 +0000 UTC
the game playing super smooth, almost stable at 30fps
2020-04-16 02:19:41 +0000 UTC
to play the game fully you need to go to other islands or am i wrong
Scott Lanners
2020-04-16 02:16:32 +0000 UTC
Same problem as some others. 1.14 or any other.. mod in.. every setting the same. It worked ONCE.. then the % now just kicks in to high gear and nothign
2020-04-16 02:16:21 +0000 UTC
Then you arent using the provided mod.
BSoD Gaming
2020-04-15 18:57:53 +0000 UTC
Hm. Dunno why even after doing all required things it still won't boot :c
2020-04-15 18:27:37 +0000 UTC
not working for me, using 1.1.4. usual high speed percent number at launch and nothing further. is this cpu specific, im on intel i7?
2020-04-15 18:02:26 +0000 UTC
Works pretty good. It's the early days so I know there's going to be some bugs. I notice at least for me the game crashes a lot if the game autosaves while a text box is up or the phone is open. Anyone else confirm?
2020-04-15 17:03:42 +0000 UTC
whats your spec?
2020-04-15 15:17:17 +0000 UTC
Hi.All my game versions appear 1.0.0 but they are all different from v1.00 to v1.1.4.How come ?
2020-04-15 14:55:48 +0000 UTC
It works for me! But it is quite slow (15 fps). And my tent doen't get constructed and disappear from my inventory.. It does the same thing with v1.1.4 and v1.1.1.
2020-04-15 12:32:34 +0000 UTC
Well, 15-30FPS on OpenGL and 6700K. It's good start.
NexonSU
2020-04-15 11:40:15 +0000 UTC
how to you get it?
2020-04-15 08:29:54 +0000 UTC
Vulken seems to be broken in this release, works on OpenGL but No games will launch on Vulken and emu freezes - Update - fixed in build 367 - Thanks
2020-04-15 08:11:07 +0000 UTC
This works very well on Radeon 555x! The beginning is nice until he Island arive. Then it is graphical issues and lower FPS.
KrisWestGames
2020-04-15 07:26:46 +0000 UTC
Use version 1.1.4 instead :)
KrisWestGames
2020-04-15 07:21:48 +0000 UTC
does not work with v1.1 . Stuck on launching screen.
Tony Torres aka Tonycubed2
2020-04-15 07:11:41 +0000 UTC
yes please
Nomadx469
2020-04-15 05:28:00 +0000 UTC
awesommmmm!!!
2020-04-15 04:49:12 +0000 UTC
Just gave $5 to find out that early access isn't available on linux. :/ It's my fault for not reading into it, but I'd like to give my +1 for being interested in a linux early access release.
2020-04-15 04:33:03 +0000 UTC
Work for me thank you! :)
2020-04-15 04:19:54 +0000 UTC
as its launching and stuck on this launching screen i notice the speed is at 4000%
2020-04-15 01:06:04 +0000 UTC
cant seem to get past the launching screen
2020-04-15 00:39:36 +0000 UTC
Not working for me :/
2020-04-15 00:25:56 +0000 UTC
cool!
2020-04-14 23:56:01 +0000 UTC
I gotta say, this is a very impressive update
2020-04-14 23:45:18 +0000 UTC
Awesome²
2020-04-14 23:41:24 +0000 UTC
Awesome! Gotta try that out soon
Tech Dunk
2020-04-14 23:18:42 +0000 UTC
Awesomee!
2020-04-14 23:18:33 +0000 UTC