Homebrew Discussion [Speculation] Possibility of Microsoft Windows Games ON NINTENDO SWITCH ( wineHQ implementation )?

[Ploco]

You can see the reflect on the table that show the home menu of the switch... it's obvious. and the quality image from the game is better than the picture taken with his cellphone.

 

[madkid]

For the second time, I was talking about the title. The image has nothing to with it and the lack of question marks in the title lead me to believe this was some sort of release.

The first sentence about the edited image with paint software was for @DKB So... ¿What would you do with the title? I was asking about the wine implementation to play windows games on Nintendo Switch.

I never said "Nintendo switch can run windows games".

I only asked about if it could be posible.

 

[Deleted User]

What would you do with the title?

Put a question mark in the title, so as to not make it seem like a statement or release. That's how you make it seem more like a question instead.

That's all.

 

[madkid]

Put a question mark in the title, so as to not make it seem like a statement or release. That's how you make it seem more like a question instead.

That's all.

I think it's fine... man...
I marked the title as a "DISCUSSION" from the start...
The titles can be marked as a "RELEASE"... so it doesn't seem a release cause its a "discussion", a discussion about the possibility of the wine implementation on Nintendo switch.

 

[HtheB]

the only x86 on ARM I know of, is by using ExaGear.
https://eltechs.com/
It's not free though. (I know that some people at the Open Pandora/Pyra community uses it)

 

[Deleted User]

I marked the title as a "DISCUSSION" from the start...

Unfortunately the discussion tag is omitted when it's in the recent content section, but I can see your point.

 

[71r3n]

Misleading thread and fake picture of dead space on switch.

Haha srsly? Every dimwhit (not saying you are one!) can see, the pic is inserted with a imagetool.

 

[madkid]

the only x86 on ARM I know of, is by using ExaGear.
https://eltechs.com/
It's not free though. (I know that some people at the Open Pandora/Pyra community uses it)

This looks pretty interesting



Arcanum and Commandos

Launchable Game List:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yvaNMy4F5SGpB-o7kTcGtYMBk_2kacPowN-76aODcHk/edit#gid=0

 

[sarkwalvein]

We need to discuss actually what "Could it be possible?" means.
It is really important.
What "could be possible?", what is the question about actually.

A long time ago, some famous early computer scientist came up with the concept of the universal Turing machine (UTM), "a Turing machine that can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine on arbitrary input" - Wikipedia.

That actually means what it seems it means, given enough memory storage and enough time, any universal Turing machine (a.k.a. computer) can simulate any other Turing machine.

That is, an ARM-based Switch can emulate an x86-based Windows machine... the same as an ENIAC could emulate an Xbox One X.

...now, if your "could it be possible?" is a question related to that scenario, then the answer is yes.

in the other hand, if you also want to do it in a reasonable time, i.e. got playable FPS, then the answer is (for any software that requires more CPU than a Pentium MMX probably) no.

 

[nmkd]

This is not possible in any way, at least not with post-2000 games.

Can we close this thread now?

 

[Hambrew]

Possible, but not practical (it would work really really slowly if at all). Windows apps are made for x86 or x86_64 CPU architectures and the Switch runs on ARM. Emulating x86 on ARM is rather a slow and painful process.

Hey, ExaGear (not sponsoring me) got it working on ARM. Not just for RPi, tho! I don't have it, though.

fake picture of dead space on switch.

It was just a Photoshopped picture. Of course it's fake.

i know that wine is not an emulator

It's a compatibility shell, if that makes sense. Imagine the compatibility mode from the 32-bit versions of Windows, but for Linux, or OS X.

Wine for Android requires an x86 CPU if you want it to run x86 windows games.

Again, Exagear got x86 programs working on ARM platforms. I should also tell you that Valve has their OWN version of Wine for Steam (Linux version), essentially making Steam on Linux cool, but I'm getting off-topic.

 

[natinusala]

The only part of FreeBSD that the Switch uses is the network stack. Try again.

 

[Deleted User]

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Games like Dead Space or assassins creed.


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Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.

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¿Could it be possible?

Mavis Beacon teaches typing, now for Nintendo Switch? The hype is real

 

[XDel]

I don't know about Dead Space, but if the Pi 3 can pull off Diablo II, then I am sure the Switch could pull off at least that much, maybe more.

 

[Seriel]

We might see this become practical for some things in the future, since Windows 10 runs on ARM and is technically capable of running desktop programs as long as they're compiled for ARM. Don't think any Windows games support ARM yet though, and since Windows on ARM isn't terribly popular it's never going to be supported by any large amount of games or software.

Windows 10 on ARM supports x86 (but NOT x86_64) applications through use of native emulation. There's not much of a performance hit, although its obviously not as good as apps compiled for ARM.
(I know your post is old but this thread was revived so I was reading through it for the first time)

 

[Hambrew]

This is not possible in any way, at least not with post-2000 games.

Might I tell you the Nvidia Tegra X1 (Switch's processor) runs at about 1.0 GHz. So while it cannot run Half-Life 2, Half-Life 1 and it's expansions as well as something like Inkball (long live Windows Vista) WILL WORK.

 

[PiracyForTheMasses]

Might I tell you the Nvidia Tegra X1 (Switch's processor) runs at about 1.0 GHz. So while it cannot run Half-Life 2, Half-Life 1 and it's expansions as well as something like Inkball (long live Windows Vista) WILL WORK.

Considering half life runs on Nvidia shield portable, tablet, and tv perfectly fine, there is no doubt that the switch could handle it with ease.

 

[randomgbanoob123]

Considering half life runs on Nvidia shield portable, tablet, and tv perfectly fine, there is no doubt that the switch could handle it with ease.

Yeah this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

Ghz isn't everything.

If my Athlon 64 x2 could handle maxed half life 2 (an 11 year old proc. Clocked at a whopping 2ghz.) A new chip even mobile and 1ghz will have absolutely no problems.

 

[nmkd]

Might I tell you the Nvidia Tegra X1 (Switch's processor) runs at about 1.0 GHz. So while it cannot run Half-Life 2, Half-Life 1 and it's expansions as well as something like Inkball (long live Windows Vista) WILL WORK.

You clearly have no clue what you're talking about.

 

[maxx488]

Rdr2, wow, gow and halo 6 on switch??
Alexa play despacito 5