We Turned Nintendo Switch into a Steam Deck, And Runs PC Games!
2024 ж. 22 Мам.
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Today, you're going to see:
Switch running Android & Linux.
Benchmarking the performance of Switch.
Switch running mobile games like Genshin Impact.
Switch emulating PS2 and PS Vita.
Switch running Half-Life 2.
And most importantly,
Switch running PC games like GTA5, DMC5 and God of War! Natively!
Enjoy the video.
You can find the switchroot project here: switchroot.org/
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Video Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:31 Switch Mod Intro
2:13 Android Tweaking
6:44 Android Gaming
8:15 Android Emulator
10:52 Linux Intro
12:52 Linux Install & Tinkering
18:01 Linux Gaming
25:06 My Thought
26:14 Outro
This channel is setting the bar really high for tech tubers.
Yes, with a video per decade sadly
@@dvy6660 the owner of this channel mainly create content for Chinese viewers . The English version must be filmed again. So only the best ones will be refilmed and released on KZhead.
@@004307ec I figured that out, still would like more videos even if they "just" dub them tho
@@004307ec meaning he is part of the ccp . or he is taiwanese
@@tugzzcouncil485 That has nothing to do with their videos. It just takes much time to produce english versions and they don't want to simply add english subs.
This is quality over quantity people
@@akasection Cool, i never knew geekerwan had Chinese channel
@@IzvmiiI was really surprised when I found out they got an English Channel🤣🤣🤣
Yea, who would put all the effort for content
It's neither
@@akasectionok but get this, their bilibili channel has even more uploads for some reason, there's a third level to this
honestly, i thought you guys were just gonna pull a "oh with cloud streaming" but no, you guys did the thing that I've been dreaming for someone to actually do, that was amazing. Definetly earned a sub.
雖然跟中文版是同樣的主題，但是所有素材都是重新錄製，真的是超佩服極客灣的折騰精神！！
本土化(笑)
未来会不会主打油管
甚至还有中文版没有的gta5测评画面
@@_hnghngdv9113大L给你
I am resisting the urge to be racist -
I legit thought he was going to pull a fast one and stream the games over like every other fake youtube channel but this was actually entertaining to watch! Can you make a part 2 video series on this and try more older game titles to see if they will run? It would be so cool to see the older Splinter Cell game series, halo series (not the remastered MCC game), F.E.A.R, Max Payne series, and anything else around this era of gaming!
GTA4 won't be playable with that CPU bottleneck
@@talibong9518PC versions of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas could be possible. Wouldn't be surprised if they ran better than those garbage remasters.
@@dhgmrz17 you can run android versions as well
Wrong channel to blame
I think they would not make the part 2.Because they made this video just want people to know switch's performance and fun.If there's enough reviews on their channel on bilibili to ask.They will make the part 2
It's impressive with how in-depth your testing is! I've joyfully looked at the original video, but I'm glad you did an English version of this reporting. Thank you for your efforts and testing :D. I really enjoy it.
This is exactly the kind of testing I love to see. And your explanation at the end of what the point of doing “useless” stuff like this, I really felt that! It spoke to me. Sometimes there’s no reason for doing tinkering, it’s just FUN! ❤
Absolutely impressive my man! You deserve millions of subscribers in my book, so vastly detailed and entertaining. Not only that but actually real! Not clickbait crap. Keep these coming cause I have a massive passion for what you do!!
You guys are what actual teach reviewers should be like! Mind blowing content as always....heres and idea, how about turning old android phone motherboards into full fledged pcs or small laptops. Yk giving old devices a new life instead of throwing them away.
This is very easy on phones with display out, diy perks has a video.
@@bulletpunch9317 @bulletpunch9317 yeah checked that video out but he doesn't really turn it into a full fledged android/Linux PC just sort of uses dex. I was talking about repurposing any android motherboard and maybe adding coolers and turning making it into a better computing device or sth like that
@@aymanrahman1737 then you can watch diy dr.k. hes the closest to what you are mentioning i think.
There are not reviewer, they are engineer
well postmarketos exists so technically you can
This is the kind of video I've always thought about (especially the one comparing switch performance vs modern smartphone performance) and finally someone has done it! Well done!
DUDE!!! That's awesome! I was able to get some games running through a combo of building box86, PiApps Wine64, and the L4T megascript, but this is a whole other level! Great job, man; my hat's off to you! There's a lot of stuff I can look through in this video, but all of this might just throw the compatibility list I had out the window (I might be able to run more games now)! Thanks!
Guide?
you are the only tech youtuber that does his job properly.. these videos are satisfying.
immediate sub, the quality of this video is incredible. this is exactly what i was wondering on the capabilities of my switch that im about to jailbreak. thank you so so much!
This content really is unique, definitely the only content creator making complex projects and testing like these in a very easy to consume video! Keep it up !!
The vídeo I've been looking for, you are awesome guys!! 👏👏
QUALITY content! I love this channel same as Strange Parts
You've went abobe and beyond with your showcase here, from infographics to information to density to education to experimentation. I think that's worth a subscribe.
Excellent video, That was super cool to watch and very well paced. The conclusion was actually quite inspiring and I might try to document a similar set of tools and applications I've been exploring with my smartwatch in the near future particularly with emulation and those "impossible to run" games. It kinda goes to show that computers aren't exactly defined by hardware anymore but rather by what software people can work on and develop.
Thank you for making quality tech content and not only mainstream !
Great work guys. Really love your videos, please keep them coming
This is what I wanted to see. Compatibility layers on Android is much more compelling to me than streaming simply because its running native. You guys got a sub.
This channel is gold, the one and only channel that I need to turn on notification and watch every new videos release! Interesting contents, detail informations, funny talk and good animations, include tutorial from basic to expert. Thank Fei, Hupa, L-SJ, Mengye, CXY996 for making many awesome video. Man I love any of videos on your channel. Please keep this going on.
That’s a lot of work for not a lot of gain. Buuut super interesting and loved the video
This was a great watch. Quality content. I 100% get more enjoyment from tweaking the systems then actually playing most of the time.
All your videos are gold im a fan, its very cool that are other people that share that emotions to go beyond the limits! Thank you for your videos
I don't even own a Switch but seeing Geekarwan uploads, I still watch it. Always great and detailed content, easy to digest, easy to follow. Keep up the good work!
Same
Way to go man! I've been trying to do this sort of stuff for about a month already but I only got so far. I didn't know the tidbit about dxvk; I'm gonna have to rewatch your video the next time I try this. Also a warning for anybody who wants to try this: Do not install the L4T megascript version of Steam unless you install box64, install wine, and then build Box86 first: it uses a newer version of Glibc than 18.04 has (I think it's 2.29, whereas 18.04 only supports 2.27). No idea why they did this. It worked once, but I had to reinstall Linux, and it wouldn't work after.
I got exactly what I was looking for. Great vid. Subscribed.
Quality video, keep it up brother!
i cant tell you how long ive been trying to get steam up and running on linux for switch for the longest time thank you for this, some lower tier games will definitely run on it and its fun to try.
This man is absolutely unhinged and completely insane for running 3 translation layers on an already weak CPU based on ARM. Now this is the stuff I came to see. The commitment behind it is really admirable. It was very entertaining to see you try emulate Switch on the Switch.
U can actually now run yuzu emulator flatpak on Ubuntu Linux (not through yuzu emu on android like he did) and Mario bros wonder works with 40fps
GTA V runs at 30 fps on Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ on Android, sounds like a miracle to be honest, but it's true.
@@ValdikSS2 that is pretty impressive. It does not even run native ARM code to begin with.
Man this is such quality content. I'm hooked to this channel ever since i saw the making android phone gaming console video. Thanks Geekerwan for your hardwork.
that one's goated
Haha that one got me contemplating opening up my own Mi9
100 percent i just love the channel
Now that's what i call a tech channel.keep it up dude.
Great video - Impressed how well those games performed on linux
Impressive stuff, love the graphics in your presentations..
it's refreshing to see someone who runs a tech channel who uses their ability to actually use the tech to show what all is possible rather than just show geekbench, 3dmark graphs and insert spoken mid video ad breaks. also "you're on linux, you're a guy" hilarious truth
Can I get some more understanding about what you mean ? Don't those youtubers go into detail along with the benchmarks ? What else is needed for you as a viewer ? Just curious
@@AprilSamurai I just feel like other channels are too focused on discussing salesman like topics and "use cases" and that the hosts dont even know how to use the stuff all that well. here it's like one of us geeks, one of us true "powerusers" doing the video. kinda like Major Hardwares videos. i like to see someone talk about tech who has a passion for tinkering and experimenting just to see it happen like in this video here since i do similar things on my own. its always fun to see these creative project videos tho. the big contrast would be that when someone like Linus does a fun creative experiment video like this, it seems he has other people like his guy Anthony doing the actual thinking in the background while Linus kind of keeps circling it back around to something marketable.
@@hdslave ohh i can understand that. This is pretty valid criticism. I will keep this in mind as I have been cooking some tech tutorials and reviews but I don't want to just emulate what most big tech channels do. I wanna put my own spin and be entertaining like the channel here. Cuz like you I enjoy tinkering with stuff as well! its nice to hear what regular viewers think.
@@AprilSamurai honestly, I feel that most of the tech youtubers show they can purchase equipment, set it up, run benchmarks/games but very few can actually get much past that. Ufd tech & Linus do the worst when they do a creative project video and never even figure out how to accomplish the task the video is about and kinda just give up. I love gamersnexus but Steve is such a industry investigator that his content is rarely that entertaining outside of his worst of the year build vids. Theres many channels I have no interest in like brownlee and his clones, tech yes etc which barely report more than a basic and topical review that could have been summed up in a short article with a few graphs and pics
@@AprilSamurai but it's mainly just seeing someone competent in the linux terminal showing tech. That let's me know off the jump they know what they're doing and do tech projects whether the camers is on or not
This channel never dissappoints... A true MVP in KZhead channels
Once again a super high quality production, pishing the boundaries of what people think is possible. Great video.
The amount of work you put into these videos is why I'm subscribed. You'll be at 1 mil subs easily with this quality of content.
You and your team are awesome...
Man. This guy is the GOAT. I was expecting another faked "it counts as running on the switch if it can stream via moonlight or Steam Link" video. Nope, he went full out, and ran everything on the switch itself. Bravo!
I honestly feel your passion and understand. It's awesome when you love something and it keeps you going.
This channel is amazing and the tech in this video is amazing. Multiple translation layers almost perfectly running a native Windows PC x86 game on an underpowered ARM machine on Linux. Amazing.
Its crazy that NSwitch have lower single core than Snapdragon 4 G-1 but still can run beastly game. It shows how crazy the optimization needed for game dev and NSwitch to make that work
Its actually slightly worse than the xbox 360 cpu on paper but with the extreme oc done it outperforms the jaguar cores on the ps4 and xbox one
Well you got yourself another subscriber. If you can switch between the stock OS and Linux I could find some use for this, that's if external monitors can still be used.
Amazing content and you ended on such a positive note!
Such an wonderful video. Thanks bro!
What an awesome video. I prever the smartphone videos, but this is so nice too. Can you maby try older games like left4dead in future, when you have Windows installed on anything? Would love to see this masterpiece ^^
the quality and hours you put on this video is amazing!!
Thank you so much for this ! It's awesome ! Would Love to see you try and demonstrate games that actually run well on the Switch. Ones that run well at low settings and ones that run well on medium settings etc.
You're the GOAT my friend, great vid
Extremely interesting. I'm surprised you haven't overclocked the steam deck yet. tons of potential there for tweaking.
Impressive job nevertheless to get all this running on that hardware! Box64 is quite impressive too, not quite as optimized as Apples Rosetta2 but thinking it is a community project with limited resources is wow! Still switch hardware is quite old and can’t keep up. But running some smaller, older 2016 titles might be actually possible!!
Phenominal video. Keep it up mate.
This video tells multiple stories, and in every single one of them, tells the WHOLE story. Amazing work
Finally, someone showcases the true modding wonders of the Switch! There was nothing quite like a fully unlocked Switch until the Steam Deck arrived. Running Kodi, Android TV and RetroArch on this machine is beautiful (I even made a fine custom Mega Bezels NTSC+CRT RetroArch shader preset specifically optimized for the Switch), and at home, I actually prefer streaming games from my actual PC on the network using Sunshine or Steam Link over actually attempting to run them on the Switch itself. Having a v1 unit with the original 20nm Tegra X1, I don't have the luxury of pushing the clocks nearly as hard, but the memory overclocks that are in my reach are still good enough to fix the usual performance issues plaguing many retail Switch games. And when I'm feeling rebellious, I also stream plenty of emulated Wii, Wii U and 3DS games on the Switch from my desktop, even getting to use the Switch touchscreen for those games. Running the entire operation on my local network, performance isn't actually bad at all, and it also means getting to play RTX titles with the Switch at 60fps, which is quite the trippy sight, even if it's actually just acting as a wireless display and controller combo.
i dont think its completely fair to credit this to the switch... nintendo try to do everything to stop people from using their device as they see fit, switch is intended to be an locked platform except that nintendo failed at it, the modders or in this case linux is the one who deserve credits. im saying that because there is no guarantee that future nintendo consoles will be unlocked like that any time soon, they will try to make it harder and harder each generation, while platforms like the steam deck are quite the opposite, funding valve means funding this openes (at least for now, if they dont change their mind in the future, steam client is proprietary but at least steamOS is floss)
@@igorgiuseppe1862 Personally, even better if a corporation tries their absolute A game to lock a device down only to have all those artificial locks completely and thoroughly destroyed by the community. I want them to waste their time and money, only for their years of work to be defeated in a month's time. Nintendo has a history of trying the best lockdown techniques available only to have them fall completely flat because Nintendo hackers do not rest until they leave no stone unturned and no lock intact. We need more scenes like the Nintendo scene. The Switch was destined to be cracked wide open in record time from the beginning regardless of how good of a job Nintendo did on its security, like every other Nintendo console before it. So much so, it even brought collateral damage as various other previously secure devices also got cracked because of the Switch due to sharing similar architecture. They want to be the Disney/Apple hybrid of game consoles so bad and their own fans just won't let them. And I love them for it. Still, I won't deny it. Valve's been doing god's work out there, and the Steam Deck is a marvelous piece of technology with unrivaled features out of the box. It is thanks to Valve's work on Proton that my life as a Linux gamer became so much easier. And if the Steam Deck had existed when I bought my Switch, I probably would've gotten it instead. Heck, I might just buy a Steam Deck either way. But I never buy systems that I can't unlock.
By the way, proper 64bit WoW64 support for Wine is coming. It will finally allow people to run old 32bit Windows software on 64bit-only Linux without requiring multilib, and make it easier to implement CPU architecture translation overall. This, combined with DXVK, might be the step that finally allows people to easily play old PC games on their Android and other mobile devices.
@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 i dont think that hackers that try to hack nintendo consoles are better than the ones who try to hack other devices, the issue is that nintendo is less competent when it comes to lock their devices. that is why i dont think the solution is to have more hackers, soon or later we might be defeated by companies, having more hackers or better is part of the solution but the most important part is not to support $$ those companies to begin with. companies like valve are much better in that regard, they could try to enter the console market with an closed system and ecosystem but chosen not to, the way they "fight" against piracy is mostly trying to offer an better service than betting on things like DRM.
Wow, this is an incredible achievement! I don't think anyone imagined that getting in game on any of those titles was possible
Man it's mindblowing love your content man😊👍
didn't check geekerwan's video for a while, but it still as high quality as ever!
This is really really awesome seeing box86/64 run a Nintendo Switch! It seems the NVidia drivers are of good enough quality to run most games through DXVK/VKD3D without any graphical issues. The bottleneck seems to be the x86 translation on the weak CPU cores. Perhaps you could do a follow up video, trying to run the same games with FEX-Emu (git version) to see how it compares to box64. FEX-Emu is getting a lot of love lately.
This leaves me thinking what would be possible to do with a Jeston Orin! I really would love to test it myself but I don't have the funds to buy one just for testing this. I would hope that you could test it for all of us see how far can we go with the translation layers! Thanks for the great work!
Isn't that an AI accelerator chip? The cpu/gpu may be better than this chip, but it'll still be pretty crap.
@@tappy8741 No, it's a SBC that runs ARM, so imagine that you have a phone chip but you can use like 15 to 25W. It's the same concept as the Switch actually but way more recent. The SBC version of the switch SoC was commercialized as the Jetson Nano, the current version of that product is named Jetson Orin, it has AI accelerator logic but it still has the normal CPU/GPU, but the current CPU cores are way faster than the Nano and the GPU is way bigger and has a much newer architecture.
@@Guilherme_Oliveira72 I understand that as a modern chip it iterates cpu/gpu and will be on a much better node, the cpu in particular is much improved. Still they've pushed AI in the marketing and may have de-emphasized raster performance in favour of cuda cores for ai/ml if it came to it, if I were to guess the gpu may not be as impressive for gaming as you might imagine. But 17 billion is a lot of transistors, if we're lucky they've "wasted" some of them re-using consumer raster instead of designing a more optimal AI solution for their primary purpose. Samsung 8nm is pretty good, behind tsmc 7nm but either at this point will be cheap as they are not bleeding edge but still pretty efficient. It's like 5 year old tech, best suited to large wide designs at lower clocks for power efficiency.
Your content has revived the tinkerer in me that I had when I was a child. Love these videos, please give us more! Dropped a sub ❤
Instant sub, thought you were gonna be streaming em, would love to see more of this and see what games you could run well with this setup, plus i'd love to see GTA IV with the recent performance fixes.
This is nuts but great. If I had a second first gen Switch, I'd try this.
There’s a difference between a KZheadr who reviews tech on KZhead for a living and a KZheadr who’s an impressive engineer who uses their craft to innovate. You are killing it my fellow brethren! Subscribed.
Yeah, the typical stuff we see are really nothing more than gadget unboxers with no background in engineering or sciences. I don't waste my time with those channels anymore.
Amazing video, guys. You do really set the bar on a different level. Now I am really excited with the idea of seeing a snapdragon 8 gen 2 on Linux running those games.
Installing linux on a phone is extremely difficult. You have to manually build drivers which are proprietary. And manually compile the kernel. You can try to run it inside Android with a Proot distro. Hardware acceleration is the tricky part
@@dustux I am pretty sure it is difficult. I have just got excited. Like the author of the video, I really like this field of technology.
The only youtube tech channel I respect from my heart
its insane how well optimized titanfall 2 is, runs even on a switch wow.
This guys videos never disappoint.
Amazing video!!! Excited to see this with the switch 2 lol, didn't expect to see titanfall2 running at ~25 lol
What an awesome video!!! Have you tried indie games that don't need that much horse power to run? It could be a part 2 video
Devs are amazing for making beautiful looking games on the Switch.
something interesting you must try is vita2hos, a homebrew program that can be loaded from atmosphere (the most used custom firmware in switch and copies the og system horizon), this software vita2hos is a translation layer to play almost natively Vita games on switch since both systems are arm based (it's kinda like proton on linux, but to play vita games on the switch)
Great video, keep up the great work!
I wish you guys do more reviews. Love your presentation.
This was kool, first time seeing one of ur videos I enjoyed it. I'd like to see how this runs some visual novels off steam in another video.
This is easily the coolest shit I have seen in a while. Imagine what would be possible on a 8 Gen 2.
YOO i hope he sees this!!
We need to see a fully unlocked 8 Gen 2, considering it's significantly more powerful than the Tegra X1
@@shrekadinait's funny that "significantly" is an understatement, 8gen2 gpu is 6-10x more performant
@@ajitray5719 good to know! Do you have any idea what GPU would be equivalent to the Snapdragon 8G2 in terms of full performance?
@@ajitray5719 i used socpk numbers, idk 10 times is handheld, 6 times is docked non-overclocked, so it's probably less than that in practice
Came for the mobile chip effeciency graphs, stayed for the quirky console videos
You absolute maniac! Keep it coming and don't stop.
Glad to stumble upun this content. Legit! You earned a sub
This is REALLY awesome! Indie games are more cheaper on Steam than eShop generally so i guess its worth to make all this long journey to run linux and steam on Switch :D
if you can run those games, even at an low FPS , that means lightweight games should work just fine. maybe something like portal and porta 2 (ok those are avaliable for switch, but you can test games from the same era )
Very enjoyable explanation! 😄
That was enjoyable to watch thanks!
Interesting that Star Rail is more GPU bound and Genshin more CPU bound despite both developed by mihoyo and probably based on the same engine.
Probably because Star Rail is more linear while Genshin is an open world
Funny story seems that Genshin is about to switch the engine optimization by 4.0.
Yes it's the same engine (Unity) but they both use different graphics API backends. Genshin uses OpenGL which has horrible single core CPU bound, Star Rail uses Vulkan which is multicore friendly if designed properly. Both has janky Lua interpreter but Star Rail doesn't always need to run those code all the time.
@@lrc3847Source? Haven’t heard anything about that.
Wonder how the 8G2 or even an 8G3 would perform in these tests.
Really, really good. I think GoW would run with 30fps and 720p.
@@iamnotkurtcobain easily if properly optimise
Just wait until cassia releases. A windows emulation layer for Android. Uses the same gimmicks used in this video and is developed by the devs that previously worked on the skyline emulator.
Love your videos guys.
This is my favorite youtube channel, hands down
This dude is again back with some crazy stuff, that probably defies every law of the current gen tech... 😂
That’s pretty impressive for old GPU hardware to come close to modern phone GPUs. Even after all these years
Wow, Video is back!! Awesome!
Great job on this video. Your content is great and I subscribed fo see more. Wish you the best for your KZhead future. I'm sure you will get to 1million subscriptions in no time!
I have a 2017 model and it handles overclocking ok, The fact it can run gta 5 is mind blowing. I would love to see a dedicated video showing windows games running with as low of settings as possible. I believe gta 5 would run much better with shadows off and all graphics options at the lowest :). Great video!
It not as surprising tbh Technically speaking the tegra x1 cpu even while downclocked is pretty much equal to the xbox 36p and ps3 cpu While the gpu absolutely crushes both
this was really fun to watch. and no wonder why MiHoYo hasbeen radio silent on Genshin for the Switch. At least we finally know why. I would honestly greatly prefer Honkai Star Rail to be ported anyways havent touched Impact since Star Rail released 😆 MiHoYo could at least say " we tried and failed" with impact though.
Amazing video pal
Dude great video ,genshin would run better if you put motion blur off not only putting the graphics down,otherwise great video. I dont have a switch but really want one, Great work!
I wonder how well these games would work at 720p, low settings or under 720p. There's also a ARM version of Windows that might give better results.
It's not possible to install ARM version of Windows on Switch though
@@SerhiiYolkin technically it probably isn't impossible, but even if someone managed to make it run on switch you'd still be using compatibility layers to run steam and games so there's really no benefit of doing it
Would love to see these translation layers on a raspberry pi
Same
a really cool channel, earned a sub instantly!!!!
Dang! I got a nice endorphin hit modding an OG XB with a 1TB Sata drive but this is completely unreal! Awesome vid!