A Switch has enough hardware power to emulate NES games? Amazing! Who would have thought?

Even a Nintendo DS or a PSP could emulate NES games just fine. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s , although this guy is quite at the top of his game..

It is actually rather fascinating. There is so much documentation available for NES though, that it's one of the easier emus to write.

I skimmed through it instead of watching it, but that seems even easier than I thought, and I already thought it would be pretty easy. I might actually try writing an emulator myself if I find the time for it.

That's the thing. I think Nintendo hasn't been doing software emulation very effeciently in the past. So like the Wii and Wii U VC these were games being emulated by a specific emulator which is why in the homebrew scene you could inject certain roms in the VC files and some would work, others wouldn't based on the functionality of that specific emulator used. Nintendo really should think about hiring some hackers to make their emulation software, Wii homebrew emulators run tons of content flawlessly and they're all in one solutions. Switch should be able to handle Arcade-Gamecube just fine, hopefully Nintendo does better this time around.

Haha, that's harsh. I have only been programming for a total of 6 months, and this is a super daunting task for me.

Well obviously I can't comment on the actual code from simply skimming through the video, but it seems there can't be all that much code involved considering the length of the whole things, so I'm just assuming it's not too hard. There's only so much you can do in about 30 minutes, even if it's all writing and no visible thinking.

I'm still pretty young, so the oldest console I ever owned was a Gamecube. I emulated the older consoles or bought their remakes on virtual console