Abstract:
A few days after the crack of Nintendo Switch 2 was made public, multiple developers showed off the early results of running games on this platform on hardware other than Nintendo consoles. The private modification tool has allowed "Mario Kart: World" to run on the iPhone 18 Pro, and "Sprawl: Scramble Team" has also been launched on the PC and entered the character selection interface.
Will Faust completed a mobile demo of Mario Kart: World using a privately modified version of nxnative. He also showed off a macOS version before, but it had missing geometry and wrong colors. nxnative will directly execute the original Switch program code on Apple ARM hardware, while converting the Nintendo graphics interface to Metal; adapting to Switch 2 also requires processing the new NVN2 graphics interface.
Faust said that the physical memory of the mobile phone demonstration occupies less than 6.5GB, and a device with 8GB of memory may also run. However, he has made it clear that he will not release relevant Switch 2 modification code.
Meanwhile, Sheepish showed off a privately modified version of the Eden emulator to launch Splash: Splash on PC. The initial version could not skip the opening animation, and subsequent demonstrations have entered character selection, but there are still problems such as severe slowdown, some functions not yet implemented, and vertical synchronization failure.
Another clip shows that "Dong Qigang: Full Power" is running on PC, but there are few relevant technical instructions. These demonstrations adopt different technical routes and cannot yet prove that Switch 2 games are widely compatible. There is no public version that can be reproduced independently. The Eden demonstration has not yet reached normal playability.
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