A new datamine has leaked Nintendo’s official GBA emulator for Nintendo Switch. The information was brought to attention by Twitter use Trashbandacoot, who also shared screenshots of the games running.

 

 

 

A number of games are mentioned including Tactics Ogre, Golden Sun, F Zero, Ninja Five-0 and more.

What happened was four files popped up today on 4chan, and two of these are NSPs with a 7z archive that has loose NCAs. The 7z archive is called Hiyoko, a Game Boy emulator apparently made by NERD – the team that has worked on other classic platforms for Switch Online. There’s also a GBA emulator called Sloop as well

The consensus of the community is that the files are legitimate because entire builds of three Nintendo Switch Online apps are useable and playable and the source code with identifying information from developers at Nintendo, Box version control commit logs, and timestamps are there as well.  Because of the leak, there are Switch owners out there building from the code and playing pre-finished builds, making this very unlikely to be a fake.

 

 

What is notable is that there is significant maintenance being done next week on April 26, which could point to the date for a Nintendo Direct announcement.