Store
Turn a game you already have into a HOME menu entry.
Drop an APK below and this makes a forwarder — a small
.nro that appears in hbmenu with the game's own name and icon
and goes straight into it, without opening Viridite first.
Your APK never leaves this page. It is read in your browser with the File API and the forwarder is assembled in memory. There is no upload, no server step, and nothing is stored. You can disconnect from the network after this page loads and it still works.
Games that run
Pick one, fetch its APK from the link, then attach the file below. Viridite cannot host or ship these — they are not ours to distribute — so the download is from the public listing and the file stays on your machine.
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Attach the APK
Where it goes
Copy the downloaded .nro to your SD card at:
/switch/Viridite Games/<package>.nro
And put the APK itself in /Viridite/apks/ — the forwarder
starts the Translation Core directly, and the Core needs the game to be
there.
Skipping the first-launch wait
The first time a game runs, the Core unpacks the APK onto your card and that is the slow part. It only happens once — every launch after it is cached — but it does not have to happen on the Switch at all.
Pre-install the game does that unpacking here instead,
on a machine with a real CPU and no SD card in the way, and gives you a
zip. Extract it into /Viridite/games/ and the first launch
skips straight past extraction.
It is a separate download rather than something baked into the
.nro on purpose. Unpacked game data is bigger than
the APK it came from — that is what decompressing means — and hbloader
reads an NRO wholly into memory, so a forwarder with a game inside it
would be a larger download that would not load.