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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023 by mschuster91 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:15AM (#39028817)
> The Switch is on its last legs anyway, and the successor will reset jailbreaking/emulation progress back to zero.

Jailbreaking yes, but emulation? I wouldn't be so certain, it's still the fundamentally same, mainstream CPU/GPU family just with more beef.

The most pressing challenge is getting game cartridges to a point where they can be decrypted.

Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023 by jsheard on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:18AM (#39028861)
I suppose, but as you say jailbreaking is a prerequisite to emulation since we need to extract the games, and possibly the firmware. In the absence of a "god mode" hardware exploit like the Tegra X1 bootrom bug that's also a moving target because newer games will need newer firmware to decrypt, requiring a steady supply of new exploits to keep breaking open those new firmwares.