Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusives Already Booting on iPhone and PC, Days
Less than a week after the Switch 2's first jailbreak went public, Switch 2 exclusives are already showing up on hardware Nintendo doesn't make. Developer Will Faust posted footage of Mario Kart World running on an…
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Less than a week after the Switch 2's first jailbreak went public, Switch 2 exclusives are already showing up on hardware Nintendo doesn't make. Developer Will Faust posted footage of Mario Kart World running on an iPhone 18 Pro through a private fork of nxnative, a project that runs original Switch games natively on Apple Silicon. That came a day after his macOS demo, which had missing geometry and wrong colors, so many people called it fake. Faust says the iPhone build uses just under 6.5 GB of physical memory thanks to a swap-like, file-backed memory setup. Switch 2 support needed extra work on NVN2, the console's newer graphics API, and Faust has said he won't release the code.
On PC, developer Sheepish got Splatoon Raiders booting in a private build of the Eden emulator. It now reaches character select, though it lags quite a bit, has no VSync, and is missing plenty of features. Sheepish credited AI-assisted development and hinted at a public release later this week. Centro LEAKS also posted that DK Bananza is running on PC, though only an image was shared, and it's unclear who is behind it. Read full story
On PC, developer Sheepish got Splatoon Raiders booting in a private build of the Eden emulator. It now reaches character select, though it lags quite a bit, has no VSync, and is missing plenty of features. Sheepish credited AI-assisted development and hinted at a public release later this week. Centro LEAKS also posted that DK Bananza is running on PC, though only an image was shared, and it's unclear who is behind it. Read full story