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+# About
+Since going through the effort of getting your firmware, prod.keys, and games from the Nintendo Switch™ using methods along the lines of "[RCM](https://switch.hacks.guide/user_guide/rcm/)" or "[Modchipping](https://switch.hacks.guide/user_guide/modchip/)" was extremely difficult for me to achieve, I managed to find a way that allows not only for you, the user, to **emulate the Nintendo Switch™**, but also **get just about any game from Nintendo®** (if supported by the Nintendo Switch™).
+
+<br>
+
+# How did I achieve this?
+Simply put, I just browsed the internet for 2 hours straight looking for the key items needed:
+* an emulator (Ryujinx)
+* prod.keys (Product keys) & title.keys (Title keys)
+* firmware (The Nintendo Switch™ firmware)
+* games (Any [NSP](https://file.org/extension/nsp) or [XCI](https://file.org/extension/xci) game files)
+
+<br>
+<br>
+
+# Lets begin
+Starting from now will be a "tutorial" on how to achieve this blissfull setup that lets you easily run any Nintendo Switch™ game, without the need for an actual Nintendo Switch™ in your possession.
+
+### Table of contents
+* [Installing Ryujinx](#installing-ryujinx)
+    * [Open Ryujinx](#open-ryujinx)
+* [Getting your prod.keys, title.keys & firmware](#getting-your-prodkeys-titlekeys--firmware)
+* [Installing your prod.keys, title.keys & firmware to Ryujinx](#installing-your-prodkeys-titlekeys--firmware-to-ryujinx)
+* [Setting up a controller for Ryujinx](#setting-up-a-controller-for-ryujinx)
+* [Getting a game for Ryujinx to run](#getting-a-game-for-ryujinx-to-run)
+    * [Add a games directory](#add-a-games-directory)
+    * [Getting games (NSP or XCI)](#getting-games-nsp-or-xci)
+    * [Getting Ryujinx to detect the new game](#getting-ryujinx-to-detect-the-new-game)
+* [Thats it!](#thats-it)
+<br>
+
+# Installing Ryujinx
+Lets start off with installing [Ryujinx](https://ryujinx-emulator.com/download/); Make sure to choose the [correct platform](https://mdigi.tools/operating-system/) before downloading.
+
+### Extract to a memorable place
+After the download is complete, you can extract the zip file to a memorable place, since it will also be the place where your games will be stored later.
+
+### Open Ryujinx
+Once it is finished extracting, open the folder and run "**Ryujinx.exe**". If you are on windows you should see a terminal popup with stuff wizzing by in it; This is good, and means its about to start. Once the main Ryujinx application is open; It should look like this (Ignoring the games currently listed):
+
+![Example of Ryujinx opened](image.png)
+
+Now that you have Ryujinx installed and opened, Lets get our prod.keys, title.keys, and firmware now for Ryujinx.
+
+<br>
+
+# Getting your prod.keys, title.keys & firmware
+This would have been **an extremely difficult** process if we weren't blessed with one website, called [Prodkeys.net](https://prodkeys.net). This website provides and extensive list of almost **every version** of  prod.keys, title.keys and even firmware. You can find all of these here:
+* [prod.keys + title.keys v16.0.0-v19.0.0](https://prodkeys.net/ryujinx-prod-keys-v2/)
+* [firmwares v15.0.0-v19.0.1](https://prodkeys.net/latest-switch-firmwares-v2/)
+
+<br>
+
+It is recommended that both the prod.keys, title.keys & firmware have a version very close to each other. You should stay within a (.0)-(.1) version gap:
+* v19.0.0 &larr; The last didget of the version is what you should pay attention to.
+
+A bad example of this is downloading prod.keys & title.keys v16.0.0, and firmware v19.0.1. This gap is too much and may become quite the problem down the road.
+
+Once you have chosen the versions of both, you simply need to click "**DOWNLOAD**" on both. You should have 2 zip files called:
+* Prokeys.net vXX.X.X.zip
+* Firmware.XX.X.X.zip
+
+<br>
+
+# Installing your prod.keys, title.keys & firmware to Ryujinx
+Now that you have prod.keys, title.keys & firmware, you can now finally install these to Ryujinx. The process is quite simple:
+
+### Extract Prodkeys 
+Extract "**Prodkeys.net vXX.X.X.zip**" to `C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Ryujinx\system`, insure that in `system` you delete "**Profiles.json**", as that will be re-added with new information later.
+
+### Installing the Firmware
+After extracting the Prodkeys, next is to install the selected firmware. Ryujinx makes this a very easy task, simply do the following:
+1. In the **Top left** part of Ryujinx, click the "**Tools"** tab
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's top left menu](image-1.png)
+2. Then hover over "**Install Firmware**" to show the extended menu
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's top left menu w/ tool's clicked & install firmware hovered](image-2.png)
+3. Finally either click "Install a firmware from a directory" if you already extracted "Firmware.XX.X.X.zip" to a folder, or "Install a firmware from XCI or ZIP" if you still have the zip file.
+
+Now you have prod.keys, title.keys & firmware installed on Ryujinx.
+
+<br>
+
+# Setting up a controller for Ryujinx
+After preparing Ryujinx with prod.keys, title.keys & firmware, we can now setup a controller that Ryujinx will use to control the game we play. This process should be quick and simple:
+1. Click "**Options**" in the top left menu
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's top left menu](image-3.png)
+2. Then click "**Settings**"
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's top left menu w/ settings hovered](image-4.png)
+3. Go to "**Input**" from the sidemenu
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's settings sidemenu](image-5.png)
+4. Go to "**Input Device**" and select your currently connected controller (In my case Xbox Series X Controller (0))
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's settings w/ input settings shown](image-6.png)
+5. Ryujinx should automatically change keybindings for the Xbox Series X, so don't worry about changing keybinds (If it didn't then go through the process of changing it to match)
+6. Then go to the top right and create a new profile by editing the name to your liking.
+
+    ![Picture of Ryujinx's input settings profile manager](image-7.png)
+
+    Then click the save button.
+
+    ![Picture of Ryujinx's input settings save button hovered](image-8.png)
+
+7. Finally click "**Apply**" at the bottom right of the Ryujinx settings to apply your changes to Ryujinx
+
+Now Ryujinx has a controller that can control the emulated game.
+
+<br>
+
+# Getting a game for Ryujinx to run
+Finally, we need a game. This is the hardest part of this entire document. Since it's "Illegal" this document will most likely get DMCA'd so, please IN ADVANCE someone save this with [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org) so it isn't lost like other tutorials have had happen to them.
+
+### Add a Games Directory
+First we need a "Games" directory for Ryujinx to detect games in. This is crucial for Ryujinx to manage and control all games we download:
+1. Click "**Options**" in the top left menu
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's top left menu](image-3.png)
+2. Then click "**Settings**"
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's top left menu w/ settings hovered](image-4.png)
+3. Then find "**Game Directories**", it should be the first shown tab (**User Interface**) when you open the "**Settings**" menu
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's User Interface tab in the settings menu](image-9.png)
+4. Click "**Add**" and find your dedicated "Games" folder
+
+   ![Picture of Ryujinx's User Interface tab in the settings menu w/ add hovered](image-10.png)
+5. Finally click "**Apply**" and Ryujinx will now use this "**Path**" as a place to detect games.
+
+### Getting games (NSP or XCI)
+We are now at the "**Illegal**"" part of this documentation. Where get games that are suppose to be purchased, but can be freely downloaded from a specific website called [NSW2U](https://nsw2u.com/). This website provides mirror downloads to almost every game Nintendo® has published. For this documentation, we will be using [The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom](https://nsw2u.com/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-switch-nsp-xci-nsz-v17):
+1. Scroll down until you see "**Download**" in bright red, and "**Torrent**" in bright green.
+
+   ![Picture of NSW2U's download section](image-11.png)
+2. Scroll a little bit more down until you see this section (it should be right below the last section)
+
+   ![Picture of NSW2U's mirror download section](image-12.png)
+3. You can choose between any of them, but the one I chose was "**Base (eShop)**", which is an **NSP** file.
+4. Then click **(Mirror)** next to **1Fichier** (Clicking 1Fichier will take you to a gallery of all eShop games instead of the download for Totk)
+5. On [ouo.io](https://ouo.io), click "**I'M A HUMAN**"
+6. Then click "**GET LINK**"
+7. You should end up on [1fichier.com](https://1fichier.com), on a download page for "**The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom**".
+
+   ![Picture of 1Fichier's download page for Totk](image-13.png)
+8. Click "**Download**", It will then redirect to a bigger "**Click here to download the file**" button that will actually download the game.
+
+   ![Picture of 1Fichier's actual download page for Totk](image-14.png)
+
+9. Once the download finished you should end up with a zip called "**The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX][v0][US].nsp**"
+10. Finally extract the game to your "**Games**" folder.
+
+You now have your game ready to play, now lets get Ryujinx to detect it.
+
+### Getting Ryujinx to detect the new game
+Simply click the little ![Ryujinx refresh button](image-15.png) at the bottom left of the Ryujinx app:
+
+![Picture of Ryujinx's apps game directory](image-16.png)
+
+Finally, the last "Finally", double click the newly shown game in the "**Games Directory**" as shown below:
+
+![Picture of Totk in the Games Directory of Ryujinx](image-17.png)
+
+Or right click, and click "**Run Application**"
+
+![Picture of Totk in the Games Directory with the context menu shown](image-18.png)
+
+<br>
+
+# Thats it!
+Yea, thats really it. Simple right? It's truely crazy how easy this is to just bypass paying $60 worth of a game, and over $300 for a Nintendo Switch™. With that out of the way, I hope you enjoy playing your newley aquired "**The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom**".
+
+![Gif of the final outcome, running the game](final-outcome.gif)
+
+2019-2024 &copy; Wo-r 
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