diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 9ba8fe207..6fa823c1c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -34,3 +34,6 @@
 [submodule "xbyak"]
     path = externals/xbyak
     url = https://github.com/herumi/xbyak.git
+[submodule "opus"]
+	path = externals/opus/opus
+	url = https://github.com/xiph/opus.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 73405ce4b..d0af994da 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -156,8 +156,6 @@ macro(yuzu_find_packages)
         #"libzip            1.5         libzip/1.5.2@bincrafters/stable"
         "lz4               1.8         lz4/1.9.2"
         "nlohmann_json     3.7         nlohmann_json/3.7.3"
-    # we need to be careful as the version check might be broken https://github.com/xiph/opus/issues/110
-        "opus              1.3         opus/1.3.1"
         "ZLIB              1.2         zlib/1.2.11"
         "zstd              1.4         zstd/1.4.4"
     )
diff --git a/externals/CMakeLists.txt b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
index b80b27605..d1dcc403b 100644
--- a/externals/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -91,3 +91,6 @@ if (ENABLE_WEB_SERVICE)
     target_compile_definitions(httplib INTERFACE -DCPPHTTPLIB_OPENSSL_SUPPORT)
     target_link_libraries(httplib INTERFACE ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES})
 endif()
+
+# Opus
+add_subdirectory(opus)
diff --git a/externals/opus/CMakeLists.txt b/externals/opus/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..94a86551f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/externals/opus/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,254 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8)
+
+project(opus)
+
+option(OPUS_STACK_PROTECTOR "Use stack protection" OFF)
+option(OPUS_USE_ALLOCA "Use alloca for stack arrays (on non-C99 compilers)" OFF)
+option(OPUS_CUSTOM_MODES "Enable non-Opus modes, e.g. 44.1 kHz & 2^n frames" OFF)
+option(OPUS_FIXED_POINT "Compile as fixed-point (for machines without a fast enough FPU)" OFF)
+option(OPUS_ENABLE_FLOAT_API "Compile with the floating point API (for machines with float library" ON)
+
+include(opus/opus_functions.cmake)
+
+if(OPUS_STACK_PROTECTOR)
+    if(NOT MSVC) # GC on by default on MSVC
+        check_and_set_flag(STACK_PROTECTION_STRONG -fstack-protector-strong)
+    endif()
+else()
+    if(MSVC)
+        check_and_set_flag(BUFFER_SECURITY_CHECK /GS-)
+    endif()
+endif()
+
+add_library(opus STATIC
+    # CELT sources
+    opus/celt/bands.c
+    opus/celt/celt.c
+    opus/celt/celt_decoder.c
+    opus/celt/celt_encoder.c
+    opus/celt/celt_lpc.c
+    opus/celt/cwrs.c
+    opus/celt/entcode.c
+    opus/celt/entdec.c
+    opus/celt/entenc.c
+    opus/celt/kiss_fft.c
+    opus/celt/laplace.c
+    opus/celt/mathops.c
+    opus/celt/mdct.c
+    opus/celt/modes.c
+    opus/celt/pitch.c
+    opus/celt/quant_bands.c
+    opus/celt/rate.c
+    opus/celt/vq.c
+
+    # SILK sources
+    opus/silk/A2NLSF.c
+    opus/silk/CNG.c
+    opus/silk/HP_variable_cutoff.c
+    opus/silk/LPC_analysis_filter.c
+    opus/silk/LPC_fit.c
+    opus/silk/LPC_inv_pred_gain.c
+    opus/silk/LP_variable_cutoff.c
+    opus/silk/NLSF2A.c
+    opus/silk/NLSF_VQ.c
+    opus/silk/NLSF_VQ_weights_laroia.c
+    opus/silk/NLSF_decode.c
+    opus/silk/NLSF_del_dec_quant.c
+    opus/silk/NLSF_encode.c
+    opus/silk/NLSF_stabilize.c
+    opus/silk/NLSF_unpack.c
+    opus/silk/NSQ.c
+    opus/silk/NSQ_del_dec.c
+    opus/silk/PLC.c
+    opus/silk/VAD.c
+    opus/silk/VQ_WMat_EC.c
+    opus/silk/ana_filt_bank_1.c
+    opus/silk/biquad_alt.c
+    opus/silk/bwexpander.c
+    opus/silk/bwexpander_32.c
+    opus/silk/check_control_input.c
+    opus/silk/code_signs.c
+    opus/silk/control_SNR.c
+    opus/silk/control_audio_bandwidth.c
+    opus/silk/control_codec.c
+    opus/silk/dec_API.c
+    opus/silk/decode_core.c
+    opus/silk/decode_frame.c
+    opus/silk/decode_indices.c
+    opus/silk/decode_parameters.c
+    opus/silk/decode_pitch.c
+    opus/silk/decode_pulses.c
+    opus/silk/decoder_set_fs.c
+    opus/silk/enc_API.c
+    opus/silk/encode_indices.c
+    opus/silk/encode_pulses.c
+    opus/silk/gain_quant.c
+    opus/silk/init_decoder.c
+    opus/silk/init_encoder.c
+    opus/silk/inner_prod_aligned.c
+    opus/silk/interpolate.c
+    opus/silk/lin2log.c
+    opus/silk/log2lin.c
+    opus/silk/pitch_est_tables.c
+    opus/silk/process_NLSFs.c
+    opus/silk/quant_LTP_gains.c
+    opus/silk/resampler.c
+    opus/silk/resampler_down2.c
+    opus/silk/resampler_down2_3.c
+    opus/silk/resampler_private_AR2.c
+    opus/silk/resampler_private_IIR_FIR.c
+    opus/silk/resampler_private_down_FIR.c
+    opus/silk/resampler_private_up2_HQ.c
+    opus/silk/resampler_rom.c
+    opus/silk/shell_coder.c
+    opus/silk/sigm_Q15.c
+    opus/silk/sort.c
+    opus/silk/stereo_LR_to_MS.c
+    opus/silk/stereo_MS_to_LR.c
+    opus/silk/stereo_decode_pred.c
+    opus/silk/stereo_encode_pred.c
+    opus/silk/stereo_find_predictor.c
+    opus/silk/stereo_quant_pred.c
+    opus/silk/sum_sqr_shift.c
+    opus/silk/table_LSF_cos.c
+    opus/silk/tables_LTP.c
+    opus/silk/tables_NLSF_CB_NB_MB.c
+    opus/silk/tables_NLSF_CB_WB.c
+    opus/silk/tables_gain.c
+    opus/silk/tables_other.c
+    opus/silk/tables_pitch_lag.c
+    opus/silk/tables_pulses_per_block.c
+
+    # Opus sources
+    opus/src/analysis.c
+    opus/src/mapping_matrix.c
+    opus/src/mlp.c
+    opus/src/mlp_data.c
+    opus/src/opus.c
+    opus/src/opus_decoder.c
+    opus/src/opus_encoder.c
+    opus/src/opus_multistream.c
+    opus/src/opus_multistream_decoder.c
+    opus/src/opus_multistream_encoder.c
+    opus/src/opus_projection_decoder.c
+    opus/src/opus_projection_encoder.c
+    opus/src/repacketizer.c
+)
+
+if (DEBUG)
+    target_sources(opus PRIVATE opus/silk/debug.c)
+endif()
+
+if (OPUS_FIXED_POINT)
+    target_sources(opus PRIVATE
+        opus/silk/fixed/LTP_analysis_filter_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/LTP_scale_ctrl_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/apply_sine_window_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/autocorr_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/burg_modified_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/corrMatrix_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/encode_frame_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/find_LPC_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/find_LTP_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/find_pitch_lags_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/find_pred_coefs_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/k2a_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/k2a_Q16_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/noise_shape_analysis_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/pitch_analysis_core_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/prefilter_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/process_gains_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/regularize_correlations_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/residual_energy16_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/residual_energy_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/schur64_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/schur_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/solve_LS_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/vector_ops_FIX.c
+        opus/silk/fixed/warped_autocorrelation_FIX.c
+    )
+else()
+    target_sources(opus PRIVATE
+        opus/silk/float/LPC_analysis_filter_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/LPC_inv_pred_gain_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/LTP_analysis_filter_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/LTP_scale_ctrl_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/apply_sine_window_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/autocorrelation_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/burg_modified_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/bwexpander_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/corrMatrix_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/encode_frame_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/energy_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/find_LPC_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/find_LTP_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/find_pitch_lags_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/find_pred_coefs_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/inner_product_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/k2a_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/noise_shape_analysis_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/pitch_analysis_core_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/process_gains_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/regularize_correlations_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/residual_energy_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/scale_copy_vector_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/scale_vector_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/schur_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/sort_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/warped_autocorrelation_FLP.c
+        opus/silk/float/wrappers_FLP.c
+    )
+endif()
+
+target_compile_definitions(opus PRIVATE OPUS_BUILD ENABLE_HARDENING)
+
+if(NOT MSVC)
+    if(MINGW)
+        target_compile_definitions(opus PRIVATE _FORTIFY_SOURCE=0)
+    else()
+        target_compile_definitions(opus PRIVATE _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2)
+    endif()
+endif()
+
+# It is strongly recommended to uncomment one of these VAR_ARRAYS: Use C99
+# variable-length arrays for stack allocation USE_ALLOCA: Use alloca() for stack
+# allocation If none is defined, then the fallback is a non-threadsafe global
+# array
+if(OPUS_USE_ALLOCA OR MSVC)
+    target_compile_definitions(opus PRIVATE USE_ALLOCA)
+else()
+    target_compile_definitions(opus PRIVATE VAR_ARRAYS)
+endif()
+
+if(OPUS_CUSTOM_MODES)
+    target_compile_definitions(opus PRIVATE CUSTOM_MODES)
+endif()
+
+if(NOT OPUS_ENABLE_FLOAT_API)
+    target_compile_definitions(opus PRIVATE DISABLE_FLOAT_API)
+endif()
+
+target_compile_definitions(opus
+PUBLIC
+    -DOPUS_VERSION="\\"1.3.1\\""
+
+PRIVATE
+    # Use C99 intrinsics to speed up float-to-int conversion
+    HAVE_LRINTF
+)
+
+if (FIXED_POINT)
+    target_compile_definitions(opus PRIVATE -DFIXED_POINT=1 -DDISABLE_FLOAT_API)
+endif()
+
+target_include_directories(opus
+PUBLIC
+    opus/include
+
+PRIVATE
+    opus/celt
+    opus/silk
+    opus/silk/fixed
+    opus/silk/float
+    opus/src
+)
diff --git a/externals/opus/opus b/externals/opus/opus
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..ad8fe90db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/externals/opus/opus
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit ad8fe90db79b7d2a135e3dfd2ed6631b0c5662ab
diff --git a/src/core/CMakeLists.txt b/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
index f87d67db5..d1f173f42 100644
--- a/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ endif()
 create_target_directory_groups(core)
 
 target_link_libraries(core PUBLIC common PRIVATE audio_core video_core)
-target_link_libraries(core PUBLIC Boost::boost PRIVATE fmt::fmt nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json mbedtls Opus::Opus unicorn zip)
+target_link_libraries(core PUBLIC Boost::boost PRIVATE fmt::fmt nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json mbedtls opus unicorn zip)
 
 if (YUZU_ENABLE_BOXCAT)
     target_compile_definitions(core PRIVATE -DYUZU_ENABLE_BOXCAT)