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points by haunter 2 days ago | 0 comments

Seeing that Macs can now run Switch 1/2 games natively because of the ARM CPU is actually incredibly. And to me personally the first hand on sign of the end of x86.

[–] forsalebypwner 2 days ago

Is Switch 2 emulation actually happening? I haven't been following that

[–] haunter 2 days ago

Switch 2 user space has been jailbroken so any game can be dumped. But not the other way, so the Switch 2 can't run pirated Switch 1/2 games yet.

There are now Switch 2 emulators that can run any dumped game on PC/Mac etc. https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Nintendo_Switch...

Most Switch 2 games are getting dumped, including the just released Ocarina of Time Remake https://imagepaste.org/i/kx5c925r.png

As I mentioned in my comment there is a native Switch code compiler for Mac, so not emulation https://github.com/seedds/nxnative

[–] grishka 2 days ago

I remember reading somewhere that Switch 2 can run pirated Switch 1 games through some kind of Switch 1 flashcart, but this will get you banned on Nintendo servers.

[–] forsalebypwner 2 days ago

Thanks! I tried nxnative just now, performance is great. Appreciate the info.

[–] speed_spread 2 days ago

> the end of x86

I'll believe that when there's an open ecosystem of state-of-the-art ARM (or RISC-V) devices based on industry consortiums reference specs. Until then, it's device trees all the way down or waiting for Qualcomm to get their Linux shit together. Yeah, didn't think so.

[–] dmitrygr 2 days ago

Did you just use qualcomm as an example of openness? I guess you never actually worked with qualcomm...