Homebrew Question Would there be a way to play linix games

[LIKEaBOSS18123]

Would there be away to play linux games like witcher in the future on the switch with linix?

 

[Deleted-442439]

Would there be away to play linux games like witcher in the future on the switch with linix?

What is linix?

Anyway no, x86 games can't be played on a ARM device, and arm compatible games are not going to be ported to Horizon unless someone with way to much time on there hands somehow gets the source of a game, and then decides to break the Nintendo Developer Account NDA by using the official SDK and a dev unit to port it, and wants to take the risk of a massive lawsuit from multiple major companies.

 

[LIKEaBOSS18123]

Sorry,meant linux.Oh ok thanks for the answer.Would of been cool to play that on the switch.

 

[zwq939681378]

If you use wine to run a Windows, then use VMwaer to run a linux……

 

[LIKEaBOSS18123]

I aslo wanted to ask if i could then play it with wine but would the switch be able to emulate it with wine?

 

[natinusala]

Why not try it yourself

 

[LIKEaBOSS18123]

I dont want to try linux on the switch yet with the battery problem.

 

[MHDestination]

I aslo wanted to ask if i could then play it with wine but would the switch be able to emulate it with wine?

No, wine alone won't magically turn an ARM cpu into X86.

You'll need to emulate a X86 cpu with something like qemu
https://wiki.winehq.org/ARM

But the perfomance would be worse than shitty...

Long story short:
No, you can't play games like "Witcher" on Switch Linux.

 

[AdamFX990]

Games written in java probably could work. Plus any interpreter language that has an interpreter for arm

 

[MHDestination]

Games written in java probably could work. Plus any interpreter language that has an interpreter for arm

I'm sure that's not what the OP wants.

He could play almost every open source game. But he was referring to AAA games like "The Witcher"

 

[AdamFX990]

I'm sure that's not what the OP wants.

He could play almost every open source game. But he was referring to AAA games like "The Witcher"

I know what he meant. People have already said i386 and x64 games won't work. But minecraft should at least work.

I don't know almost every open source game is accurate. Most open source games aren't going to support multiple architectures. But there is certainly a good selection there like OpenTTD.

 

[MHDestination]

I don't know almost every open source game is accurate. Most open source games aren't going to support multiple architectures.

That's why i used the word "almost".
As long as they don't depend on precompiled binaries/libraries most games could be compiled for arm.
Theres already a large selection in the ubuntu/debian repositories .

Heres a small list of examples:
https://blends.debian.org/games/tasks/finest

 

[nmkd]

Sorry,meant linux.Oh ok thanks for the answer.Would of been cool to play that on the switch.

Would have*

I aslo wanted to ask if i could then play it with wine but would the switch be able to emulate it with wine?

WINE stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator", so no.