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[nocsi]

What an age we live in. Puyo Puyo Tetris is working sorta.





Tl;dr, you can now run patched Nintendo switch apps natively on ARM Linux/Apple M1.

 

[Shifty]

So it's like WINE but for Switch SINE?

That's really neat. I expect the Yuzu community will be all over this.

 

[nocsi]

So it's like WINE but for Switch SINE?

That's really neat. I expect the Yuzu community will be all over this.

Kinda but better and actually native. The patching is all done before hand, so all the CPU execution is native now. GPU is like yuzu still. But you’ll be able to run breath of wild as natively, no wine wrapper.

 

[boujeejamboree]

Can it run Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? no longer own a switch, but I want to play those new tracks

 

[Kataploom]

Goddammit, this is awesome! This would literally make Steam Deck run switch games great, but we're still far from that

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Goddammit, this is awesome! This would literally make Steam Deck run switch games great, but we're still far from that

Bro the Steam Deck is x86

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

.

 

[Kataploom]

Bro the Steam Deck is x86

Oh, didn't know I was so sure it was ARM, of it's Zen 2 actually y makes no sense for it to be ARM lol my bad

 

[SeraphJan]

The Switch Pi?

 

[Tams]

Oh, didn't know I was so sure it was ARM, of it's Zen 2 actually y makes no sense for it to be ARM lol my bad

Bruv, there's living under rocks and then there's that. When you come to this forum no less.

 

[supernova8]

Over the past while, I’ve worked on-and-off in my free time patching the arm64 Linux kernel to run Nintendo Switch games natively, i.e. by taking many of the Switch’s “Horizon” OS system calls and implementing their behavior using Linux’s existing facilities for memory management, scheduling, synchronization, etc.

Software engineers are seriously like wizards, and I love how this dude is so low-key about it.
"Oh yeah just in my free time here and there, saving the world, fighting dragons".
"One time I accidentally slipped and banged my head. Woke up and I'd made a fully functioning quantum computer."

 

[GigaBowser]

Emulation never makes a dent in their sales but they always crusading against it because of corporate greed.

 

[Tams]

Emulation never makes a dent in their sales but they always crusading against it because of corporate greed.

Ummm, have Nintendo actually taken any action against emulation that's be offered for free? They only take issue if you try to profit from it.

 

[Smasher89]

So do i get this right, given that the software gets opengl updated, there is a chance for it running switch games even better on the steam deck?

 

[Holammer]

 

[justiceiro]

So do i get this right, given that the software gets opengl updated, there is a chance for it running switch games even better on the steam deck?

Steam deck it's x86, not arm

 

[Shadowstar39]

So it can run Tetris on mac os with but without gpu acceleration, unless you buy a different chip /device , did I miss something here?
If so that is cool for raspberry pie type devices but don't know why mac people are rejoicing.

As a pc guy, this seems kinda odd. Why are you still on old opengl and no vulkan support? My x86 pc and steam deck has all of that already.
Is mac os that terrible on arm that it doesn't have native support for modern gpu apis (i get no directX, but openGL and vulkan should be standard by now).

 

[Jinzo Prime]

So it can run Tetris on mac os with but without gpu acceleration, unless you buy a different chip /device , did I miss something here?
If so that is cool for raspberry pie type devices but don't know why mac people are rejoicing.

As a pc guy, this seems kinda odd. Why are you still on old opengl and no vulkan support? My x86 pc and steam deck has all of that already.
Is mac os that terrible on arm that it doesn't have native support for modern gpu apis (i get no directX, but openGL and vulkan should be standard by now).

Mac OS doesn't support Vulcan because Apple insists that devs use their own API called Metal. It's dumb, and it's holding Mac gaming back.

 

[Drew1440]

How long will it be before we start getting Chinese Switch clones running some from of ARM Linux?