lmao so there’s no reason to even own the hardware?
And I believe most Nintendo games for the Switch 2 are already 🏴☠️-available (that is, basically all the exclusives)
What’s the minimum hardware requirements if I wanted to get an emulator handheld?
I have no idea. I saw today that there’s already a working Switch 2 emulator for Android (ARM) but I didn’t see the details. Given that the Switch 2’s GPU is basically an RTX 3050, I’d expect a top-of-the-line Snapdragon to be required (8 Elite for example)
E: I just saw the arm emulator was on a Snapdragon 8 Elite but it wasn’t even reaching 25 fps consistently. I don’t know much about x86 handhelds, but I’d say you’d need something much more powerful than the Steam Deck, for sure.
I will say I have Mario kart world running on my GPD win mini 2025 edition with the good processor option, the AMD HX whatever.
I got frame rates in the teens occasionally spiking to the twenties. It’s slow. But the emulator is Young and that’s very promising for a few days. I am patient and the game is technically playable just a little bit of a slideshow.
I can play it on my desktop with a 3080 I just haven’t bothered putting it on there yet because all of these recomps need to go on my GPD right now. We’re talking breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom? Those need to be on my shit.
But this is not falling off my radar and I will absolutely follow the progress of this especially once I get all my recomps done.
The people have spoken
YES! Fuck Nintendo with a stick. I’m here for it. I had Mario Kart World running the other day.
Yo do you know if online works? I’d love to play some of these titles with my less-than-enlightened friends who (unfortunately) own a switch
Switch 1 has Nextendo. But nothing for Switch 2 yet. It’d be a stretch to do it in a week, even with AI reverse engineering
Switch 1 emulation is much more likely to have some sort of functionality
Anyone know where one might look for this stuff? I would very much like to play this but I would also very much not like to give Nintendo any money.
All the places I used to get this stuff from have seemingly been shut down.
Probably check Ziperto. Been my source for a lot of stuff. Also NXBrew has been reliable. Outside of that, it’s been driven down into discord groups and telegram. Though I haven’t lost access to roms altogether. My collection is about 600 games or so. A lot of ports and remakes but nice to have on one platform. I loved my used, hacked switches.
NXBrew does appear to have it right now.
edit: that is nxbrew.net to be clear
commenting here to follow up after work, thanks for the link
I haven’t looked yet but axekin is usually good.
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