The Nintendo Switch is Nintendo’s latest console/handheld, and it’s doing really well for itself in terms of sales and appeal. It also marks a change in attitude from Nintendo as well, as the device is not only powered by an Nvidia Tegra system-on-chip, but the company even reportedly wanted to employ the now-defunct Cyanogen Inc. to develop their operating system. Since the discovery of the Fusée Gelée vulnerability, Switch modding has really taken off in the community. Users have theorized for a long time now whether it would be possible to port Android to the Switch. After all, Linux has been ported to it and the device uses the Tegra X1 SoC for which there is documentation to refer to. All that’s left is the blood, sweat, and tears of developers interested enough in porting Android. One developer by the name of ByLaws is taking the challenge of turning a Nintendo Switch into an Android tablet.
The Switch is such a perfect formfactor and device for retro gaming. It’s really too bad that such things break warranties and/or block device and game updates, because otherwise I’d get emulators running on my Switch in a heartbeat.
Gotta love how all that hardware security and bootloader locks that modern game consoles employ always end up getting blown up by a single software vulnerability or microcode/firmware bug.
Can we expect that companies that make game consoles will fund research for secure software development?
It almost feels like Nintendo doesn’t care that much about exploits, just enough so publishers will be mostly happy.
Switch is pretty nice but I wouldn’t say it’s perfect for retrogaming due to the lack of dpad.
I prefer using my hacked PS Vita for older 2D games.
Behold! https://www.amazon.com/HORI-D-Pad-Controller-Zelda-Officially-Licensed/dp/B01AJRN4CE?th=1
I’d really rather have a “Developer Mode” for the Switch so I could dick around with making Switch software.
Android’s a disaster on real Android hardware, I don’t want it on my console. 😉