The launcher

Follow the steps below to build your own copy of YW4Recomp:

1. Point it at your game files. NSP, XCI or extracted folders of version 2.2.0.
2. It checks, extracts and builds the game. locally, once: about 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Play. From the launcher, or from a shortcut.

What you need before you start: the game and its 2.2.0 update, the keys for NSP and XCI files, a graphics card with Vulkan 1.3, and the free disk space. The launcher checks your files before beginning the build process.

Choose how your copy is stored: NSP or XCI files, or extracted folders (ExeFS and RomFS, the update applied). Then point it at the base game, the 2.2.0 update, the keys folder and, if you have them, the DLC.

Nothing from the game comes with the launcher. The YKW4 Recomp launcher does not ship with any game files nor assets and we do not condone piracy or unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials.

• Check launcher checks if the files are the right game and the right version, and the keys open them.
• Options: where the build goes, whether saves and settings stay in the game's folder or in AppData, shortcuts, and your option to download AMD FSR or NVIDIA DLSS. It names your graphics card; DLSS is greyed out without an NVIDIA RTX card. The graphics settings themselves (resolution, shadows...) are in the game.
• Build: the game's code is being translated and compiled into a Windows program on your PC, about 10 to 15 minutes, once. You can follow along using the progress bar on screen.

Once the game is built, the launcher opens on Play. With options:

• Overview: what's new in this version, and your latest screenshots (F12 in the game).
• Screenshots, Mods (the English patch and other Switch mods) and DLC tabs.
• Last played, play time, and shortcuts to the saves and the logs.
• Free up space: you can remove the build files the game doesn't need to run.

• Playing: the theme; what the launcher does when the game starts (hide and come back when it closes, minimise, stay open, or close); start in full screen; mods on or off.
• Where things are kept: the game folder, and the saves and settings in it or in AppData.
• Shortcuts: desktop and Start menu.
• Disk space, downloads (changing them rebuilds the game) and updates.
• Rebuild and Uninstall (it shows what is kept and how big it is).

Ten Yo-kai themes besides the built-in look: Damona, Happierre, Hidabat, Jibanyan, Komajiro, Komasan, Manjimutt, Shmoopie, Usapyon and Whisper.

Synced with the game. The game's in-game overlay and performance HUD use the same themes: the game opens in the launcher's theme, and a theme picked in the game (Settings › Look › Theme) is the launcher's too once the game closes.

A theme is a small CSS file of colours in the launcher's themes folder, so a new one can be added without a rebuild; it shows up in both.

The launcher and the game have their own version numbers and are updated on their own. The launcher checks when it starts; a new version of the game is built again from your files, and the old one stays until the new one works.