Yo-kai Watch 4++

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An unofficial static recompilation of Yo-kai Watch 4++ (Switch update 2.2.0) into a native Windows program, in the style of N64Recomp: the game’s code is translated into C and compiled on your PC, with its own runtime and NVN on Vulkan. It goes further than an emulator does by replacing parts of the game’s renderer with its own code: resolution up to 4K, 16:10, 21:9, and 32:9 formats with the interface kept centered, PCSS soft shadows, TAA and SMAA, x16 texture filtering, upscaling with DLSS or FSR, frame generation, and 60, 120, or 144 fps. It is a work in progress that can’t yet be played from start to finish: it runs from boot through the start of a new game (logos, name entry, opening scenes, the Amano house, the town, the menus, and battles) and from late-game saves, but most of the game hasn’t been tried and missing effects and crashes are expected. Windows only; Linux is planned. It has no published releases. It states that Claude wrote most of the repository, and 100 of its last 100 commits list it as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Yo-kai Watch 4++ with the last update, 2.2.0, from your own console: already extracted ExeFS and RomFS folders, or the NSP or XCI with your prod.keys (and title.keys for an NSP). The project only accepts that version, checked by the executable’s hash. Plus Windows with a Vulkan 1.3 GPU and an FMA3 CPU, Python 3.11 or later, a C11 compiler (Clang preferred), and, on the first build, a download of about 550 MB of FSR, DLSS, and Streamline.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Nintendo Switch

Architecture

ARM64

Author

ILFforever

Original studio

Level-5

Year

2019

Stars

11

Last activity

2026-11-11 · today

Language

C

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