
It’s definitely interesting, even exciting, to see games like the original Hero or Jet Set Radio Future running on a device it was never intended for. They say that just because you could doesn’t mean you should. But while XQEMU does build and run, it is not compatible with the Switch’s Joy-cons, hence the need for an external wireless controller. Amusingly, the vanilla version of Linux4Tegra is developed and released by NVIDIA itself, just not for the Switch. Voxel9 explains that the XQEMU emulator for Xbox successfully compiles on a modified Linux4Tegra Ubuntu. That time has come as far as Xbox emulation goes. And when you can run Linux on something, it’s only a matter of time before you can run so many other things. Thanks to an unpatchable hardware bug on the NVIDIA Tegra chip, however, the doors were cracked wide open, allowing even a full-blown Ubuntu Linux desktop on it. You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit towards the left: Likely, if you bought your Switch sometime in 2019 or earlier, it's hackable, even on the latest firmware.The Nintendo Switch was almost one of the most difficult Nintendo hardware to break into. There are other ways, but they are more tricky A capable PC with a decent amount of RAM requirements are listed in the Yuzu and Ryujinx sections MicroSD card that's >= 32 GB in size with an adapter so you can transfer files via your PC USB-C cable for connecting your Switch to your PC's USB 3.0 port (I say 3.0 because, apparently, payloads can't be sent via USB 2.0 on Linux) Check if your Switch is vulnerable to payloads (we need to send payloads to our Switch in order to dump the necessary files) by entering its serial number on Damota's website. An easy way to do this is by buying this $8 RCM jig from Amazon. In terms of hardware, you will need: Your Switch, obviously, along with your physical game cartridges if you wish to dump those Some way of getting your Switch into recovery mode (RCM). There's no telling if Nintendo can actually identify what you're about to do with your Switch from here on out and whether they will ban your Nintendo account for it, so it's best to keep the device offline. Before doing any of the following, put your Switch in airplane mode.

The process involves dumping several files from your Switch system and transfering those files to your PC in order to decrypt the games. (This is probably driving Nintendo nuts.) Getting Started Unfortunately, emulating the Nintendo Switch isn't as simple as downloading the emulator and opening a game file to play it.

The best part is, both emulators are open-source and available for Linux. Emulating a modern console such as the Nintendo Switch is possible thanks to Yuzu and the lesser-known emulator Ryujinx. Yes, believe it or not this is an actual thing.
