Mario Kart World runs natively on Mac via nxnative fork in Switch 2 first
Developer Will Faust showed Switch 2 exclusive Mario Kart World running natively on macOS through a fork of nxnative with NVN2 support. The port is playable but rough, missing shaders and suffering from lag and broken geometry. Faust dumped the game from his own console using the ns2jb exploit.
- The port uses an nxnative fork translating HOS syscalls to iOS and NVN to Metal
- Getting Nintendo's proprietary NVN2 graphics API working was the hardest part
- It is not a decompilation: shaders are missing, geometry is broken and it lags
- The ns2jb exploit has also leaked a Peach 3D model and Deltarune and Duskbloods data
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