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.

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: This is currently necessary to get past an initial crash on boot.

Add this patch (attached to this post) to Animal Crossing’s 'mod' folder in yuzu.

If you need help installing the update, see these instructions. Animal Crossing v1.1.0 through v1.1.4) will work. At this time, the base game does not boot.

Install any update to Animal Crossing.

Update to the latest yuzu Early Access build.

yuzu Instructions for Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Please note that you will need the latest yuzu Early Access build and Animal Crossing New Horizons patch 1.1.0 and up to be able to boot.

We've also included a video (courtesy of John GodGames Emus) of New Horizons running in yuzu.

We’ve included instructions on how to boot up New Horizons using yuzu down below.

Animal crossing new horizons download