Nintendo SwitchでAppleのiPadOS27.2をエミュレーターなしで動作させることに成功したと、開発者が写真や動画を公開しました。Liquid Glassの表示にも成功したと報告しています。
目次
Nintendo SwitchのGPUでLiquid Glassの表示にも成功
今回の実験を公開したのは、開発者のブルーノ・セントジョン（Bruno St John）氏です。
a lot of my drivers don’t work correctly yet because it’s a big change but we got liquid glass on the nintendo switch before gta 6.
just a little bit of fixing up and we are balling. ios 27.2 running straight on the ninty switch metal. no emulation. lfg https://t.co/yQ5iLjsFI9
this isn’t super glamorous but the gpu driver now (in certain places) matches apple’s gpu stuff at a hefty 60fps and also it rotates for the love of the game
this being a native port means i can’t just patch together some qemu bullshit. this is a real tegra x1 metal driver that only _sometimes_ falls back to an nvk pipeline. my target is to have 0 such fallbacks in uikit and the OS itself. because they really really hurt to see. here’s hoping!
LIQUID GLASS ON THE SWITCH HAS BEEN ACHIEVED INTERNALLY (yes it performs badly and fails to render some things but that’s temporary) https://t.co/veQqpXMo6R
and i also finally patched enough of ios that it’s actually comfortably usable without things being frustratingly small.
most hardware works at this point. it’s much easier to list out what doesn’t:
– usb3
– usb dp alt (aka dock support)
– deep sleep
– usb host mode (connecting keyboards, mice, and other garbage over the usb c port)
– awdl (airdrop)
and everything else down to the ambient light sensor already works. the stuff listed is also super fixable so we are like 90% of the way there. all that’s left is some gpu driver fuckery, getting arm64e -> arm64 translation down right, and we got liquid glass on the ninty switch before gta6.
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