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Then you have to dump it from your Nintendo switch, there are many tutorials online on how to do it. You will need to dump the product.keys and title.keys of your Nintendo switch game. Now you’ll notice that it will say incomplete production keys.
After that you nintendo to switch games will be loaded and the emulator will open. Once you open the emulator it will ask you to select the folder where you have dumped your Nintendo Switch Game NSP/XCI/NRO files.Ĭlick on use this folder and allow it access.
After this just go ahead and open the emulator.