Nikkei: Nintendo NX to use Android OS

[walsufnir]

Mr.Playstation said:

walsufnir said:

Huh? No. If Nintendo games rely on Nintendo hardware it won't work. Yes, you can hack everything but rewriting major parts of the code is not as easy as pie.

If you root an Android phone you can easily "Trick" your phone into thinking it has a different GPU ( especially common when Tegra 3 chips had games which where optimized for it). I'm sure modders can release some software which tricks Android phones into thinking they have that special Nintendo hardware and booom Nintendo NX games are playable any android phone!

But what does the game do if it calls a function which is not present on your rooted device? Crash? Seg-fault? Do nothing? Jump out of window? You also can't trick your phone (if it's arm) to be an intel and expect it to execute x86 code, no matter whether it's rooted or not.