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Systems: multi-system frontend · Runs as: homebrew NRO · Get it: ticoverse.com

Best effort: this guide is community-maintained and may lag behind new releases. The emulator's own site (linked above) is the authoritative source — if anything here doesn't match what you see, trust their instructions.

TICO is a polished multi-system emulator frontend for the Switch, and the emulator HaulNX's folder layout grew up alongside — TICO's system folder names (nes, snes, n64, gba, psx, dc, ...) are the same slugs HaulNX uses under sd:/roms/. That makes the two line up almost for free; you just have to make them agree on one ROM root.

Install

  1. Download TICO from ticoverse.com.
  2. Copy tico.nro to sd:/switch/ (or sd:/switch/tico/).
  3. First launch creates its data folder at sd:/tico/ — config, BIOS folders, and its default ROM library at sd:/tico/roms/.

Point TICO at your HaulNX library

TICO defaults to sd:/tico/roms/<system>/, but sd:/roms is the central library every emulator on this wiki shares — so point TICO there:

  1. In TICO's settings, change the library/ROM path to sd:/roms — check ticoverse.com for where the setting lives in the current version.
  2. Rescan (see below). Because TICO's system folder names are the same slugs HaulNX uses, everything shows up under the right console automatically.

If your TICO build doesn't expose the ROM path in its settings, copy games from sd:/roms/<system>/ into sd:/tico/roms/<system>/ with HaulNX's file browser (Settings › Manage data) instead — but leave the library itself at sd:/roms.

Rescan after downloading

TICO doesn't watch the filesystem. After a HaulNX session:

  1. Open TICO and press R.
  2. Hover over the console whose games you added and press +.
  3. Choose Rescan Games.

BIOS files

Consoles that need BIOS files (PSX, Dreamcast, Saturn, Sega CD, GameCube): drop them directly in sd:/tico/system/<system>/ — no subfolders. Example: PSX wants scph5501.bin at sd:/tico/system/psx/scph5501.bin.

Format notes

  • DS ROMs must be unzipped before TICO will see them. Most other cartridge systems accept zips.
  • CD-era systems prefer .cue/.bin or .chd — if a game came down as a zip, extract it into the same folder.

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