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ComparisonJune 12, 20269 min readPriya Raghunathan

Ryubing, Sudachi, Citron and Eden: a plain explanation of the forks

When the original project shut down in 2024, development scattered across several continuations. They share a config format but differ in priorities.

Branching diagram of open-source project forks

October 2024 ended official development, but the source had been mirrored so widely that continuation was inevitable. What emerged was not one successor but several, each with a different emphasis and a different tolerance for risk. Because they all descend from the same final commit, migrating between them is a folder copy rather than a reinstall.

Ryubing

The most conservative continuation and the one I recommend by default. It prioritizes stability and keeps close to the original architecture, which means fewer surprises and a slower feature cadence. If you want something that behaves the way the project did before the shutdown, this is it.

Sudachi

More willing to take performance work upstream and generally faster to adopt Android improvements. The trade is the usual one: newer code, occasional regressions, more frequent updates to keep up with.

Citron and Eden

Smaller, more experimental, and worth watching rather than depending on. They occasionally land a fix for a specific problematic title well before the larger forks do, which makes them useful as a second install rather than a primary one.

How to choose without overthinking it

  1. 1Start on Ryubing. It is the safest default and the easiest to get help with.
  2. 2If a specific game runs badly, check whether another fork has a known fix for it.
  3. 3Copy your config and save folders across — the layout is identical, so nothing is lost.
  4. 4Keep no more than two installed. Beyond that you are managing emulators instead of playing games.
The forks are not competing products. They are the same project exploring different risk appetites, and you are allowed to use more than one.

The Yuzu lineage, briefly

The parallel situation on the Yuzu side played out similarly and has its own set of continuations with their own quirks. We deliberately do not try to document both trees here; the maintained walkthroughs at

playwithyuzu.com stay current on that lineage in a way a secondary section of this site never could.

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