{"id":9829,"date":"2018-01-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/video_retro_emulation_finally_comes_to_switch_following_homebrew_hacking_efforts"},"modified":"2018-01-08T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:00:00","slug":"video-retro-emulation-finally-comes-to-switch-following-homebrew-hacking-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/video-retro-emulation-finally-comes-to-switch-following-homebrew-hacking-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Retro Emulation Finally Comes To Switch Following Homebrew Hacking Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Just before 2018 arrived hackers declared that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/switch_hackers_declare_that_a_homebrew_launcher_will_be_available_soon\">custom launcher<\/a> would be made available for Switch that would allow users to run homebrew apps on their systems.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now seeing the first fruits of this development, and unsurprisingly a host of emulators have appeared, covering platforms such as the NES, SNES and even the Atari Jaguar. All are shown working within RetroArch, a popular emulator package which pulls together different apps under a unified interface with a focus on accurate performance.<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn&#8217;t come as a massive surprise as the Switch is based on Nvidia tech, which is used in Android devices like the Shield TV and Shield Tablet &#8211; both systems which are capable of running various emulators to a high standard.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The issue here is that by opening the door to homebrew apps, these hackers are also allowing pirates to illegally install games on their Switch consoles.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d imagine Nintendo will be doing everything it possibly can to shut the door on such exploits in a future firmware update, but in the meantime let us know what you think of these developments by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Just before 2018 arrived hackers declared that a custom launcher would be made available for Switch that would allow users to run homebrew apps on their systems. We&#8217;re now seeing the first fruits of this development, and unsurprisingly a host of emulators have appeared, covering platforms such as the NES, SNES and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}