Homebrew Question Native Horizon Dolphin Port is it feasable?

[xbmcuser]

I know we have Dolphin available on the many flavours of Linux and android on the Switch

Is anyone working on porting this across to native Switch OS?

Call out to the legend @m4xw please sir could you consider?

 

[BestestHD]

that would indeed be rather poggers

 

[cearp]

that would indeed be rather poggers

is 'poggers' some cool new hip word that the young people are using now?

 

[Stealphie]

is 'poggers' some cool new hip word that the young people are using now?

this is the first time i've seen someone say "poggers", so, i don't think so.

 

[BestestHD]

this is the first time i've seen someone say "poggers", so, i don't think so.

y'all are just old

 

[nero99]

is 'poggers' some cool new hip word that the young people are using now?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poggers

 

[evertonstz]

Another day, another port-begging thread.

 

[Deleted User]

y'all are just old

Not old, just gbatemp is very different from twitch. Twitch has its own version of slang like poggers that would sound like giberesh to anyone that doesn't frequent twitch

 

[nex86]

I don't think it would keep up performance wise because Horizon is lacking the Vulkan API.
OpenGL is slower with Dolphin I believe.

 

[Stealphie]

OpenGL is slower with Dolphin I believe.

it is

 

[Rahkeesh]

m4wx said he isn't doing it. It had something to do with memory access I think.

 

[Deleted member 514389]

Another day, another port-begging thread.

It's not really surprising, is it ?
After all thats what the switch could really excel at...

And it has yet to prove to be beyond the WiiU in emulation means,
which did most things it can do already just aswell
(Given it has GC and Wii built in, yet that also counts)
[Still can't fathom why Nintendo can't release a USB Drive for the Dock or something to play Wii games with. *sigh*, rather remaster and resell I guess...]

It doesn't do that much else.. still yet.

Although that 51 game classic thing looks mighty fine...

 

[Syph]

m4wx said he isn't doing it. It had something to do with memory access I think.

I thought full memory access has managed to be achieved in horizon. It would have to be made into an .nsp though. However, even with full memory access it still needs Vulcan for decent performance.

 

[ganons]

Some GameCube games run better on opengl than vulkan like Mario sunshine. Atleast on Android.

 

[evertonstz]

I thought full memory access has managed to be achieved in horizon. It would have to be made into an .nsp though. However, even with full memory access it still needs Vulcan for decent performance.

No need to make it an .nsp, launching hbmenu with full memory access will pass the memory rights to the homebrew launched from there, retroarch for example can get full memory access like this.
Anyways aren't games like Doom running on Vulkan in the Switch?

 

[Rahkeesh]

Its not about access to all the ram, its about some kind of direct access. Wish I could search the tweet. If it requires an NSP because title redirection won't work then that would effectively stop m4wx who is with atmosphere in being staunchly anti-pirate to the point of being anti-nsp.

Doom3 homebrew is OpenGL and commerical Doom 2016 is using Nintendo SDKs. So yeah lack of Vulkan is another issue, although a homebrew API pretty close to Vulkan and cutomized for Switch capabilities was released recently.

 

[evertonstz]

Its not about access to all the ram, its about some kind of direct access. Wish I could search the tweet. If it requires an NSP because title redirection won't work then that would effectively stop m4wx who is with atmosphere in being staunchly anti-pirate to the point of being anti-nsp.

Doom3 homebrew is OpenGL and commerical Doom 2016 is using Nintendo SDKs. So yeah lack of Vulkan is another issue, although a homebrew API pretty close to Vulkan and cutomized for Switch capabilities was released recently.

I don't know man, it's possible to build 100% legal nsp for a long time now, even retroarch has an nsp and m4wx fully support retroarch. I really doubt the only motive m4wx don't want to work on it is building an nsp file.

 

[Kirby567fan]

I don't know man, it's possible to build 100% legal nsp for a long time now, even retroarch has an nsp and m4wx fully support retroarch. I really doubt the only motive m4wx don't want to work on it is building an nsp file.

Its because of the really bad performance its going to have plus the new API doesnt support compiling shaders at runtime which is needed for Dolphin iirc.

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In other words its possible but games will be far from playable, unless the code is changed to make the emulator rely on GPU more than CPU which i think is impossible or close to it, not to mention that it would be hard af.