You only risk getting a virus by installing third party builds with unpublished source code, or by downloading ROMs from shady sites (something not condoned by this sub). Is Citra emulator safe?Ĭitra is open-source, anyone can inspect the code themselves to verify it isn’t a virus. So it’s perfectly legal to play Switch games on your PC with Yuzu or any other emulators, provided you have a modded Switch that you legally purchased the games for and dumped yourself. What’s illegal is distributing those games, or obtaining them by unlicensed download.