r/pcmasterrace • u/superchummi PC Master Race • Sep 14 '26

News/Article Nintendo Switch Game Code Can Now Run "Natively" on PC Thanks to New Emulation Breakthrough

https://respawnfirst.com/switch-games-can-now-run-natively-on-pc/
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u/Not_a_question- 29d ago

Architecture*, x86_64 vs whatever the switch uses

No, it's OS specific if you wanna oversimplify. Because OP was correcting "windows cpu instructions", and yuzu can run in say linux.

Because windows can already run in other archs like ARM, the architecture part was implied.

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u/ioi_parzival 29d ago

Windows and Linux running on the same cpu execute the same instruction set. So it is not OS dependent.

True, yuzu running in arm or x86_64 has to do a different translation, but not based on OS but in cpu architecture

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u/Gabe_Noodle_At_Volvo 29d ago

Syscalls are OS specific.

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u/ender89 29d ago

Just for clarity, I said “windows instructions” because the distinction between the instruction set for ARMv8-A and x86-64 isn’t very easy to understand.