How the Cemu emulator's devs got Zelda: Breath of the Wild running in just a few hours

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SmileyAja said:

JEMC said:

I wonder if those hackers could make Switch games to run on Nvidia's Shield.

I mean, yes, the Shield has 1 less GB of RAM, but it doesn't have Nintendo's OS on it, and the SOC is the same.

The Shield Tablet isn't going to have a chance at running Switch games. Not having Nintendo's OS is not a good thing - since Android uses a lot of resources which would eat up the much weaker K1 (not the same SoC if the Switch uses something very close to the X1 that is) and <1GB of RAM compared to the 4 in the Switch, then you have all the other issues that would ensue. Emulation with the Wii U has been quick because of the architecture being the same from the Wii and Gamecube, meaning a part of the job was already done. Here though we have a custom ARM SoC, requiring them to start from the ground up. This is why Citra runs so slow compared to CEMU, even though 3DS games should be much less taxing to emulate.

When I said the Nvidia Shield, I was talking about the Shield TV one (both the new model and the 2015 version) that are also powered by a Tegra X1 SoC running at full speed.

And I'm not talking about emulating the Switch but managing to make its software run on a Shield as if it was a proper Switch.