Is it because of the Tegra X1? A chip that had tons of documentation available even before the Switch release.
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Why was the Switch emulated so quickly?
hardware from 15 years ago
Arm devices have stuff like unicorn and other better cpu emulators already available by the time the switch came out.
You just answered your own question
Yes. Literally why it was discontinued early
Leaked documents and the RCM exploit mostly. Also Nintendo fanbase is filled with autism and they tend to hyperfixate on things like that.
You're totally right OP, Nintendo should've used some obscure arcane processor design so that devs don't know how to code for their shitty tablet and all the games not named Zelda are unavailable or overpriced 5 years after the system is discontinued so that Nintendo can sell them to you all over again!
the PS5 is x86-64 and will take 20 years to emulate
PS4/5 emulators are already booting homebrew PS5 apps, lol
yea the ps4 is 10 years old
good progress buddy
PS5 apps, not PS4.
hardware will be not good enough to emulate a 2020 x86 system for a long time.
We'll get windows PS5 wrappers before that
OH NO NO NO ON SNOY BROS, THE PS5 WILL LITERALLY HAVE NO GAMES IF THIS HAPPENS!
I mean...it doesnt have games as is
More than the Snoy 5
Will the Switch 2 be emulated as quickly?
Depends if they have another frick up on the same level as the first but I doubt it because the japanese are moronic when it comes to piracy and will probably implement hardware to specifically frick with it just out of spite.
If it is backwards compatible with the first Switch, maybe.
According to all rumors it will use a Tegra chip again, based on the Tegra Orin platform.
>Will the Switch 2 be emulated as quickly?
I'll tell you one thing if you want to emulate the switch 2 you better have a fricking Nvidia card because with DLSS and the use of RT cores you aint emulating that ever on AMD.
I am black.
Exacly.
Its also why the switch is so easily hacked and has so many hombrw apps that allow you to use any controller on the thing change the color vibrancy to make the colors better or even remove the underclok Nintendo put on the device to make the battery last longer fixing many frame-rate issues in docked mode while getting like 3-4 extra degrees hotter.
You even have android OS as a thing on the switch but its kinda unstable.
Because there was a day 1 hardware exploit that allowed people to get into the bios. Everyone knows that story.
How does that help with emulation?
This, emulator devs can NOT touch or even see any of that code, people don't get that.
Yeah that probably helped, but do keep in mind people were lying heavily about how good early switch emulation was and constantly insisting things worked perfectly that didn't
Because it has exclusives that aren't being ported to PC day one
Nintendo has been using off-the-shelf, well documented hardware GameCube onwards. The days of using mystery meat like the Emotion Engine are over
Yes, it had a hardware security hole that was exploited years before Switch even released
How does a security hole lead to emulation?
Security exploits can be helpful when figuring out how a system works. You could, for example, use an exploit to extract a copy of the OS that the system is running. Once that's done, you can examine the OS, figure out what makes it tick, and then use that information when writing an emulator.
Because its about as technologically complex as a blackberry
>Why was the Switch emulated so quickly?
was it? games were unplayable until like 2020-2021.
>Why was the Switch emulated so quickly?
There are a lot of reasons. But the real reason above all others is demand. Emulation autists fricking love Nintendo.
If they liked Playstation and Xbox as much as they liked Nintendo you would have seen leaps and bounds more impressive emulation for those systems than we've got today.
Any other answer is honestly cope.
iirc it was due to the hardware or something being similar enough to the 3ds that they could use what was learned with citra and apply that to a switch emulator
You don't know what you are talking about, the NVIDIA Tegra is nothing like the SOC on the 3DS, both are ARM but nothing else is similar.
Nintendo opted for really old tech for the switch because they were broke and they got a great deal on it. The switch 2 is using much more modern stuff that will be harder to emulate. It will still be emulated eventually, every Nintendo console will, but for most of its life it will just be gaming PCs able to do that, not lower end PCs or laptops/handheld PCs. The Steam Deck 2 will definitely not be able to emulate the switch 2.