Speaking about the possibility of a similar port to iOS, apart from macOS, the developer notes in a reply that “if amework is ever made available on iOS, porting it would be pretty painless I imagine.” The amework is the same framework that initially enabled a developer to successfully virtualize Windows ARM on Apple Silicon, as per The 8-Bit’s reporting. The 8 Bit notes the likely reason that emulating Nintendo Switch games on M1 Macs is even possible and how an emulator could come to iOS and iPadOS.Īpparently, emulating a Switch CPU on Apple Silicon seems to be easy, given that the Switch itself runs on an ARM processor. The developer has also installed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on macOS and is sure to test more titles. As the game begins, though, you can start to see those technical limitations. In the video posted on Twitter you can see Super Mario Odyssey running on macOS. The implementation is not quite perfect yet due to the technical limitations of the MoltenVK runtime library, which “maps Vulkan to Apple’s Metal graphics framework.” Even with these limitations, the emulation looks very promising. ostensibly, play many different games, including The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Animal Crossing.

Developer on Twitter has gotten Nintendo Switch games to run on Apple Silicon Macs. Citra is a work-in-progress 3DS emulator.

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