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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by haunter on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:36PM (#50384149)
Seeing that Macs can now run Switch 1/2 games natively because of the ARM CPU is actually incredibly. And to me personally the first hand on sign of the end of x86.
Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by forsalebypwner on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:42PM (#50384222)
Is Switch 2 emulation actually happening? I haven't been following that
Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by haunter on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:46PM (#50384269)
Switch 2 user space has been jailbroken so any game can be dumped. But not the other way, so the Switch 2 can't run pirated Switch 1/2 games yet.

There are now Switch 2 emulators that can run any dumped game on PC/Mac etc. https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Nintendo_Switch...

Most Switch 2 games are getting dumped, including the just released Ocarina of Time Remake https://imagepaste.org/i/kx5c925r.png

As I mentioned in my comment there is a native Switch code compiler for Mac, so not emulation https://github.com/seedds/nxnative

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by anonreplier on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:49PM (#50384294)
peasants gonna peasant
Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by 4ndrewl on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:18PM (#50384584)
revolting comment
Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:24PM (#50384645)
I don't think Switch 2 recompilation efforts portend the death of x86. It's not a very high performance watermark.

If anything, nxnative is a good example of the limitations of Apple's ARM architecture. Switch 1 emulators had native passthrough to Nvidia GPUs for features like Physx and DLSS. This repo seems to fudge it with software acceleration and lower-quality upscaling solutions.

Whereas the original Switch 1 emulators could run the game accurately, this is more of an HLE effort like Bleem! was.

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by forsalebypwner on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:01PM (#50386845)
Thanks! I tried nxnative just now, performance is great. Appreciate the info.
Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by grishka on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:34AM (#50390184)
I remember reading somewhere that Switch 2 can run pirated Switch 1 games through some kind of Switch 1 flashcart, but this will get you banned on Nintendo servers.
Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by speed_spread on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:00PM (#50384402)
> the end of x86

I'll believe that when there's an open ecosystem of state-of-the-art ARM (or RISC-V) devices based on industry consortiums reference specs. Until then, it's device trees all the way down or waiting for Qualcomm to get their Linux shit together. Yeah, didn't think so.

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by dmitrygr on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:25PM (#50386021)
Did you just use qualcomm as an example of openness? I guess you never actually worked with qualcomm...