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Developer Successfully Emulates Nintendo Switch Games on M1 Mac
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Developer Successfully Emulates Nintendo Switch Games on M1 Mac
Tuesday December 22, 2020 10:53 am PST by Joe Rossignol
Earlier this week, a developer using the pseudonym Sera Tonin Brocious on Twitter successfully managed to emulate Nintendo Switch games on Apple silicon, which they demonstrated by running Super Mario Odyssey on an M1 Mac.
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As noted by The 8-Bit, the developer was able to achieve this feat with the open source Yuzu emulator, which uses Vulkan, a high-performance 3D graphics API. The implementation is not perfect due to limitations of MoltenVK, a runtime library that maps Vulkan to Apple's Metal graphics framework on macOS and iOS.
The screenshots show Super Mario Odyssey running on a 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 chip running macOS 11.0.1. This is possible because the processors in the Nintendo Switch and M1 Macs are both based on Arm architecture.
Is this Super Mario Odyssey running under virtualization on my M1 Macbook Pro? Yes. Yes it is. ? pic.twitter.com/AcgiEkVEyU — Sera Tonin Brocious (@daeken) December 20, 2020
Top Rated Comments
3 hours ago at 11:13 am
I thought Dolphin was GameCube’s code name internally at Nintendo
Correct - that's where the Dolphin emulator gets its name from. It's also where the ship in Pikmin and the island in Sunshine got their names from.3 hours ago at 11:06 am
Very cool. Crazy the possibilities that these M1 Macs are bringing about!
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