Hacking Interesting thing I came across on Reddit while at work tonight...

[Silent_Gunner]

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/..._how_to_run_x86_on_arm_not_exagear_this_is_a/

Running x86 code on an ARM device? I know the video's mainly talking about using a RPi, but how about something like the Switch? Like, imagine running AM2R without doing some weird exploit with Undertale and/or MUGEN, of which there is no available source code for unlike that of OpenBOR. Not to mention perhaps PC games natively as opposed to streaming them?

 

[Qubarf]

Did you try it yet?
If it works it would be awesome as Exagear sucks and i have had nothing but trouble trying to get it to work on my switch!

 

[xstre pwnsx]

Oh, good find. Does he have a video up showing performance of anything?

 

[orangy57]

This sounds like it's a good alternative to Exagear Desktop since that shut down for some reason

 

[Silent_Gunner]

Did you try it yet?
If it works it would be awesome as Exagear sucks and i have had nothing but trouble trying to get it to work on my switch!

Not yet. I didn't really watch the video until now, but it looks like one is really gonna have to be familiar and comfortable with Linux for this, as the guy in the video says at the end that there's a LOT more that he needed to install to get the full WINE experience. Not to mention, I have a retail job that eats up 5 days of the week and that has no respect for consistency of any kind!

I just figured I'd put it out here since I saw it on r/emulation and thought, "hmm...maybe we can get some Windows games up here in my hacked Switch?" The time it'd take for yours truly to go and figure out how the fuck to get everything up and going, on a Nintendo Switch with all of the quirks of the hardware (does the RPi3B+ even support aarch64, which is something that I've been led to understand as being a requirement for emulators/RA cores need to be compatible on the Switch via L4T-Ubuntu) and software within is something yours truly probably ain't qualified to test, let alone give an informed answer about. I'm literally just putting this information out there in the hopes that someone like natinusala, m4xw, davidgf (we haven't forgotten about you, we would appreciate Reicast on Switch!), bylaws, and/or other hackers experienced with the Switch hardware/software would weigh in on considering how flat the scene has become atm from what I've observed.

 

[chaoskagami]

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/..._how_to_run_x86_on_arm_not_exagear_this_is_a/

Running x86 code on an ARM device? I know the video's mainly talking about using a RPi, but how about something like the Switch? Like, imagine running AM2R without doing some weird exploit with Undertale and/or MUGEN, of which there is no available source code for unlike that of OpenBOR. Not to mention perhaps PC games natively as opposed to streaming them?

This is stupid. He's creating an x86 chroot and using qemu-user to enter it and run WINE in it. This will not offer any form of graphical acceleration, and will be slow as molasses.

The proper solution here is an aarch64 Linux distro and wine-hangover, or getting over yourself and hijacking one of the Switch GM:S games to use as a runner. They all should use the same binary, anyways. Stop using virtual machine-based hacks. For native Linux stuff, it might be possible to use an x86 chroot and forward GL using virgl, but this is honestly complicated to set up properly.

 

[pasc]

mod snip for deleted response

Stop using virtual machine-based hacks.

Part of me feels like making a T-Shirt out of this.


Objectively speaking, the route is wrong, hit reverse and try again

 

[xstre pwnsx]

exagear it is.