Switch 2 Emulation on PC is already here, and its progressing much faster than I expected, – how does it even work? In short, Switch 2 Emulation leverages from already mature Switch 1 emulation code, documented Nvidia Ampere information and with modern AI technology it can patch in the missing pieces in order to make it an accurate Switch 2 experience on hardware thats powerful enough. There is still a long way to go but progress is already way beyond what many expected. Let’s discuss how this all works in today’s episode.
Sources:
Lichii (GitHub):
Eglantine (GitHub):
EglantinePS5 (GitHub):
Pokopia Recomp:
Pokopia Recomp (multiplayer fork):
Switch 2 recomp/decomp tracker:
Pro-Gamer – Eden-NX2 & Eglantine:
XDA – First Switch 2 emulator running Mario Kart World:
Wccftech – Mario Kart World full speed on Eglantine:
TechEBlog – Eglantine MKW 60 FPS:
DSOGaming – Eden-NX2 released:
DSOGaming – Lichii runs Star Fox Remake:
DSOGaming – Lichii boots Ocarina of Time Remake:
PC Games Hardware – OoT Remake at 60 FPS:
GBAtemp – Eden NX2 thread:
Nintendo Life – Switch 2 jailbroken:
GBAtemp – ns2jb released:
Notebookcheck – Switch 2 jailbroken:
BigGo – ns2jb built with Codex:
Notebookcheck – Digital Foundry confirms Switch 2 specs:
Notebookcheck – T239 die shot & benchmarks:
Notebookcheck – Nintendo mass DMCA, Feb 2026:
0:00 Switch 2 Emulation is Here
1:12 History Lesson of Switch 1 Hacks
2:43 How the current Switch 2 works
3:58 How Switch 2 Emulation works
8:58 Static Recompilation is also possible
10:54 How Will Nintendo Respond?
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Turns out the Switch 2 is two Switches taped together.
Power to the players, not the corporations! 👏👏🍻
its the wii situation all over again
Gotta love how no one gives a shit about making an Xbox Series X/S emu or ports cause they have nothing worth playing that can’t already be played on pc
Yo I can't wait to play DK Bananza with a Rareware face mod
Great times
This honestly fucking blows
So hopefully someone will port OOT Switch One
It's no surprise really it's old technology. It's going to be easier to emulate then something more current.
This is all very timely, with Nintendo gearing up to dominate Christmas sales with OOT.
Plooks like my computer will be my Switch 2 while my real Switch 2 collects dust
At this pace, we'll see switch 2 ports for switch 1.
AI and vibecoding. That's how. And guess what? It runs horribly because of it. People are just really speedrunning stupidity with the Switch 2 scene.
SomethingsomethingCiv7DevsMessedUp.Basically. Nintendo recalled the game, but the toothpaste is out of the tube now.
Luckily for Nintendo I'm too dumb to find game dumps
Stills needs the Recomp and VR mod to be the Ultimate version.
The first video source in the description got blasted by Nintendo
I think Nintendo will move everything into the cloud, soon. Because of emulators like this.
i think cloud/stream gaming and downloadable key cards will be forced on us soon.
Why have ps6 and helix . When pc is better . Yes cost more .but more freedom . No disc . I think sony failed there users . Japanese become to much greed. They forgot games ment to be fun . Just spend hundreds and millions and release garbage.
For everyone, everything.
For ourselves, nothing.
The exploit is extremely complicated so I don’t think Nintendo even understands how it works so they need time to research the vuln and see if the FS vuln can apply to any of their other sysmodules. To my knowledge it has 2 different race conditions and requires the heap to overflow to a specific spot in memory which ASLR can mess up. If they do patch it, we will most likely be getting a 24.0.0 because they need to recompile the whole kernel. It should probably get patched by this Wednesday.
Honestly nobody cares about emulators anymore. Ocarina of time is running stable with 60 fps on my work laptop with nxnative
why you blur the videos of other people on youtube? showing something is not the same as pirating or endorsing
Sony must get mixed feelings seeing Switch 2 games on the PS5.
Zelda always forces jailbreaks and emulation its the ultimate motivator for programmers and hackers just look at TOTK and how it forced the people working on the emulator to improve it enough to beat the switch in performance.
Paying for a whole new system to play a few games was always anti-consumer, but nowadays specially, is an outdated system that should be burned to the ground. and I'm glad it's finally happening.
Slop
Nintendo can keep trying to stomp it out as much as they want. They always had. But with Ai at the forefront it will be even more inevitable that people will make emulators and recomps as long as there's enough people who care.
Fritzii (ootr focused Lichii fork) is already at v5 after a few days
I feel like a great chance has been wasted to call this recomp "The Legend of Zelda: Hackarina of Time".
The Nintendo Switch did not inherit a 1 to its name just because a Switch 2 exists.
You don't need the 1. Just call it the Switch.
slop emulator
Only 5% of gamers will be able to emulate these games, its still a niche hobby. I made up 5%, but u need to be tech savy to play these games and have the gaming rig to do it, which 95% of people dont.
I really hope they get stopped
Turns out we own everything at the cost of Free 99 🤭🤭
Switch 2 emulation was yesterdays news.
These games is ported to PC and runs natively now with no emulation involved at all.
All the IA haters are quiet lately
I enjoy your retro content mate but this is just a dog whistle to plenty of amoral and unethical twits, as evidenced by the vast majority of the comments. Lost a subscriber.
I hope theres a way to make the graphics less terribly nosy one day, on characters fabric it looks kinda weird, the triforce on the hylian shield pretty consisteently looks off, and the lighting looks plasticy. the game need like a material overhaul to work better with the better lighting
This is absolutely amazing