Homebrew Question What will be the latest Emulator working on Switch?

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Personally, I think up to Wii is a given.
3DS: Probable, switch is powerful enough.
WII U: Possible/Maybe, There are already remakes of mk8 and Pokken from the Wii U which are upscaled. (I know emulating and porting are different) In terms of specs, it's possible.
 

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Personally, I think up to Wii is a given.
3DS: Probable, switch is powerful enough.
WII U: Possible/Maybe, There are already remakes of mk8 and Pokken from the Wii U which are upscaled. (I know emulating and porting are different) In terms of specs, it's possible.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Pokken DX aren't remakes.
 
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Well Switch is an Downclocked version of the Shield TV

Shield TV can Play Wii at 60 Fps without Lag.

it should be possible to Emulate Wii Gamecube PS1 Xbox Dreamcast Mame
 

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3DS: not sure, may be slow, but doable
The 3DS uses the same architecture as the Switch, so it would be far less heavy to emulate

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It'll never be a waiting game for me because I'm enjoying my 3.60 retroarch Vita. Once the Switch is hacked I think we'll get stable 8 and 16 bit quickly but the hardware is so bad it won't run anything else properly unless we get internal emulators...right?

Wrong. You're underrating the hardware a lot
 

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That is a video from 2012, Dolphin has recieved insane amounts of performance improvements since. You could probably run Galaxy 2 on that same PC 60fps on today's Dolphin.
Even my Athlon X4 860K can run Dolphin constantly at 60FPS lol

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3DS doesn't run that well on PC, why would it run better on the Switch?

PS: It wouldn't.
Because the Switch runs on the same architecture as the 3DS
 

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Even my Athlon X4 860K can run Dolphin constantly at 60FPS lol

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Because the Switch runs on the same architecture as the 3DS

The PSP uses the same architecture as the N64, and yet N64 emulation is far from perfect on it. That doesn't mean it will magically work perfectly.
 

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Uhhh, what does a couple poorly optimized games have to do with anything? The Switch hardware is roughly around a shield, but lets be conservative and say it's like 1/5 weaker, which is almost for sure a huge underestimate. It would still run n64 easily, and if Dolphin got properly optimized for ARM and the Switch's graphics drivers, plenty of games would run in Dolphin. Keep in mind the lack of an Android overhead and the fact that Android has pretty bad graphics drivers overall. The fact that Dolphin runs decently on the Shield at all is a miracle.
 

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For home consoles PS1, N64 and under are likely, probably Dreamcast aswell.
Gamecube and Wii are possible but not 100%. A VC emulator to inject into would make it easier.
PS2, XBOX and up are not happening.

For handhelds DS, PSP and under is likely.
3DS would only happen with some miracle VC emulator by M2 or NERD.
Vita is not happening
 

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The PSP uses the same architecture as the N64, and yet N64 emulation is far from perfect on it. That doesn't mean it will magically work perfectly.
The psp has 333mhz processor and the n64 has 93.75mhz processor so it is kind of magic that it even runs that well. So you still think having the same architecture doesent help a lot.

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Personally, I think up to Wii is a given.
3DS: Probable, switch is powerful enough.
WII U: Possible/Maybe, There are already remakes of mk8 and Pokken from the Wii U which are upscaled. (I know emulating and porting are different) In terms of specs, it's possible.
There is no way it could emulate wii u. Keep dreaming
 

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