Nintendo Switch Homebrew now enables you to play various games from retro consoles including NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA and more can be emulated at full speed. You can also play the classic DOOM on the console without any issues. The console’s technological capabilities are being utilized very well here and further consoles will follow as well.
RetroArch
RetroArch team has been working on many retro consoles and their progress with various consoles has been shown below
SNES
NES
AtariJaguar
GBA
NeoGeo
Atari Lynx
Cores currently available on the Switch:
- Snes9x 2010 (SNES)
- Snes9x (SNES)
- FCEUMM (NES)
- Virtual Jaguar (Jaguar)
- VBA Next (GB, GBC, GBA)
- Picodrive (Genesis, MegaDrive, Master System, 32x, Sega CD)
- Handy (Atari Lynx)
- Yabause (Saturn) [Slow]
- FBA Alpha [Slow]
Also, Cheats are working for the RetroArch cores available as of January 14th, 2018.
For a more detailed overview of RetroArch’s progress, check the link here
Classic DOOM on Nintendo Switch
We know the current generation DOOM is already out on Nintendo Switch, but what would you give to back to playing the classic version of the acclaimed series? Well, you can now play that, on your Switch
Check out the game in action down below
You can get the required files from here
Firmware Required
The current hacks run on firmware version 3.0, there is nothing yet available for 4.x but obviously, progress is being made and according to Team Xecuter they are releasing a modchip soon which is supposed to be version-independent.
fail0verflow has shown that they have a working hack as well.
We made a nice scroller for Switch 🙂 pic.twitter.com/kUWTVMQf8s
— fail0verflow (@fail0verflow) January 7, 2018
Yuzu
What’s more interesting is, that you can run these retro consoles on the Switch Emulator available for PC, meaning that there is also progress on Yuzu’s end and we could be getting some playable game sooner than we expected.
This is all quite interesting as Switch is increasingly popular and users could be using it for an emulation device as well for retro games or even PS1/PS2 games based on the technical specifications of the Switch. Will you be trying out RetroArch on Switch? Let us know in the comments below