Hacking To Hack or Not to Hack... I want to play VC1, 2, 3, and 4 on My Switch! Is this Achievable?

[Owenge]

Not really my keys are dumped the sxos itself prevents detection disabling Nintendo services with its DNS enabled so we are good to go on running any homebrew

No DNS that’s the problem XD

 

[Codiox]

Where are you ? Yes, it is on Switch.

I don't mean Lakka, does anybody still use this?

I mean like Retroarch

 

[osaka35]

Not sure which path is best. not sure where we're at for downloading switch DLC and installing it from sd, if that's what you're asking.

but

if you have not done any hacking/homebrew/cfw, then use CTCaer/hekate only to backup properly (look at the sticky about switch banning for full details on how to)
Restore to this clean backup before going online if you've used ANY hacks/cfw/homebrew
Once you go online, you must create a NEW clean backup . Stay offline and hack away, but you must restore from the most recently created "clean" one if you want to go online again.

If you're trying to save fuses, I'm not sure the current knowledge of detection of burnt fuses or not (check the switch banning sticky for info on this too)

Thinking is, Nintendo changes certain info in files whenever they talk with your switch/you go online, so if there's a discrepancy between their files and yours, you get banned. SXOS backups aren't as clean as CTCaer/hekate, so use CTCaer/hekate to create a completely clean backup before using SXOS (or other cfw/homebrew tools).

As far as advice goes, I'm not sure how to figure out DLC. I'm guessing in a little while it'll be easy enough to just install it directly from sd after getting it from somewhere on the web.

 

[Swing]

What systems have been successfully emulated/played on Switch? And is it possible to play these games on TV by just running the emulator and then plugging it into the stand like when playing normally?

 

[tomi1578]

I don't mean Lakka, does anybody still use this?

I mean like Retroarch

Lakka is retroarch

 

[Draxzelex]

Lakka is retroarch

No, Lakka is Linux, an entire operating system, while Retroarch is an emulator spanning multiple platforms typically the retro ones.

 

[Rahkeesh]

No, Lakka is Linux, an entire operating system, while Retroarch is an emulator spanning multiple platforms typically the retro ones.

Lakka is a minimal linux distro that includes a linux version of retroarch and is basically optimized to run only that.

The issue is mostly OS drivers as The PPSSPP core in Retroarch runs quite well on platforms like Windows. Lakka can run many existing Nvidia Shield drivers on Switch so it has full 3D support. The Lakka made available for switch is a 32-bit OS so it can use regular ARM dynarecs right out of the gate. 3D homebrew support for Horizon is still developing and its a 64-bit OS requiring arm64 dynarecs.

 

[spotanjo3]

Lakka is retroarch

No, it is separate. Lakka require fat32 and retroarch can be use either fat32 or exfat.

 

[tomi1578]

No, it is separate. Lakka require fat32 and retroarch can be use either fat32 or exfat.

But exfat will get corrupted

 

[spotanjo3]

But exfat will get corrupted

I know that and it didn't corrupted so far. I am stick with exfat. It is doing just fine on my Switch so far. Since 2 months. No problem.