

It also only runs “old homebrew” tests for now – so no games! This… should be interesting.

That might mean you’re not going to even want to begin using it – but only keep an eye on its development. Specifically, it’s an unofficial port of LineageOS 15.1 based on Nvidia’s own build for the Nvidia Shield TV set-top-box. Note that this emulator currently has… “absolutely no graphics” and “only console output” for now. If you’d like to get in on the development expansion of this project, there’s a Discord project started right now as well.

As is true of every emulator, you take the legalities into your own hands as well – and the best place to start is actually owning an Nintendo Switch before you do anything. Any downloading and loading you do is your own responsibility. If you head over to the original GBATemp thread right this minute, you’ll find the APK download and a temp ROM download. It doesn’t even really need an NVIDIA processor to run, just ARM64 CPU/OS and at least 4GB RAM. Instead its the base of MonoNX, made possible by the Ryujinx Team, and finally ctrninja over at GBATemp, an independent gaming community of some repute. It’s not exactly NVIDIA’s situation that’s to seek for the way this emulator is made possible. The processor rolls with an NVIDIA Tegra X1 mobile processor – and the Nintendo Switch “Pro” has been rumored to come with NVIDIA Tegra X2 (but that’s beside the point.) Today we’re talking about Android. The Nintendo Switch runs an NVIDIA processor under its hood – a mobile processor, the likes of which came previously to NVIDIA-made hardware like the NVIDIA SHIELD tablet.
