Homebrew Question Wine for the swich?

[babyjessica]

I am not a programmer or hacker or anything but I was wondering how hard would it be to make a version of wine for the switch? I would love to play windows games on the switch I see people making N64 emulators or SNES emulators for the switch but why not a "windows program emulator"?

I put windows program emulator in quotes because wine is technically not a emulator.

 

[ScarletDreamz]

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/7wt9h3/nintendo_switch_hacked_to_run_linux/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9kbpy1/idea_using_proton_with_the_nintendo_switch/

https://wiki.winehq.org/ARM

Wine is not fully compatible with ARM as far as i know.

 

[uyjulian]

https://github.com/natinusala/painless-linux
https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover

Good luck! Even when you get it running, the speed probably won't be impressive.

If you want a solution to play Windows games on your Nintendo Switch that works right now, check out In-Home-Switching: https://gbatemp.net/threads/in-home...rite-pc-games-to-your-nintendo-switch.526108/
Want to play on the go? Bring your laptop in your backpack and set it to broadcast a Wi-fi signal, or hook up an Ethernet adapter.

 

[babyjessica]

https://github.com/natinusala/painless-linux
https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover

Good luck! Even when you get it running, the speed probably won't be impressive.

If you want a solution to play Windows games on your Nintendo Switch that works right now, check out In-Home-Switching: https://gbatemp.net/threads/in-home...rite-pc-games-to-your-nintendo-switch.526108/
Want to play on the go? Bring your laptop in your backpack and set it to broadcast a Wi-fi signal, or hook up an Ethernet adapter.

well the swich is not even 2 years old yet. perhaps in time the switch will be able to run PC games with verry little issues

 

[gbazone]

Would be pretty great to run BF1942 through Wine on the Switch with network support. My favorite game ever. Especially Secret Weapons.

 

[Deleted User]

nah and yes together,
1. we need a mod for Linux that it dont crash by using Videos or something
2. we need a mod for wine that it is working
3. BIGGEST PROBLEM: We will not come over the 10 FPS

but Mineswepper can run ^^

I think too that Linux is not a "real" OS.
I think its something to play with if you want to code something,
but for games naahh

 

[Taorn]

I think too that Linux is not a "real" OS.
I think its something to play with if you want to code something,
but for games naahh

It's only the os that runs the majority of servers the internet operates on. But nah. It's not a real os since it's not best suited for games.

 

[Techjunky90]

It's only the os that runs the majority of servers the internet operates on. But nah. It's not a real os since it's not best suited for games.

Tell that to Atari, their new game console is going to run linux

 

[Taorn]

Tell that to Atari, their new game console is going to run linux

And to Valve for the sheer stupidity for running Proton. Those poor souls.

 

[jonyluke]

nah and yes together,
1. we need a mod for Linux that it dont crash by using Videos or something
2. we need a mod for wine that it is working
3. BIGGEST PROBLEM: We will not come over the 10 FPS

but Mineswepper can run ^^

I think too that Linux is not a "real" OS.
I think its something to play with if you want to code something,
but for games naahh

Linux it is not an OS is a kernel, Gnu is an OS

 

[babyjessica]

nah and yes together,
1. we need a mod for Linux that it dont crash by using Videos or something
2. we need a mod for wine that it is working
3. BIGGEST PROBLEM: We will not come over the 10 FPS

but Mineswepper can run ^^

I think too that Linux is not a "real" OS.
I think its something to play with if you want to code something,
but for games naahh

But look at the android version of wine it runs slime rancher around 40-50FPS

 

[Sakuraibr]

But look at the android version of wine it runs slime rancher around 40-50FPS

Android software optimization is something else since the developers work on the architecture for years, making it way easier for them to optimize the processing and rendering pipeline with their stabilished hardware, even for the Android homebrew community. The Switch is still being explored with its capabilities to the developers alongside Nintendo. For homebrew community to reach most of the console potential (if it ever will) will take years.

 

[uyjulian]

But look at the android version of wine it runs slime rancher around 40-50FPS

That isn't wine, it's a remote streaming app like In-Home-Switching

 

[Raugo]

I am not a programmer or hacker or anything but I was wondering how hard would it be to make a version of wine for the switch? I would love to play windows games on the switch I see people making N64 emulators or SNES emulators for the switch but why not a "windows program emulator"?

I put windows program emulator in quotes because wine is technically not a emulator.

WINE= Wine Is Not an Emulator, is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications in other OSs you can't use it to launch games programmed to a diferent cpu architecture.

 

[Techjunky90]

Why not port Windows 8 & 10 arm editions too?

 

[uyjulian]

Why not port Windows 8 & 10 arm editions too?

because you can't run x86_64 programs
Hangover allows you to do that

 

[Techjunky90]

because you can't run x86_64 programs
Hangover allows you to do that

I was being sarcastic

 

[Deleted User]

But look at the android version of wine it runs slime rancher around 40-50FPS

that look like a stream and u must know that the drivers for the nintendo Switch ArchLinux are not way good like a driver on your phone. My Switch crashes when I try to open Chrome.

 

[ZachyCatGames]

Windows EXE to Switch NCA wen /s

 

[Kwyjor]

BoxedWine, maybe? It's basically DOSBox running Linux with Wine. Apparently someone even got it running on Android.
http://www.boxedwine.org/
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/10/19/boxedwine/

Of course, that doesn't mean it will necessarily run at a decent speed on a Switch, even if it can be ported.