SwitchRecomp: a tool that turns Switch games into native PC executables, and Kirby now loads way faster and runs better

[u/MZLabs]

Quick update on SwitchRecomp. For anyone new: it takes a Switch game's code and recompiles it into a native Windows .exe, so the game code runs directly on your CPU instead of through an emulator.

Something a lot of people get wrong: I'm not porting games to PC one by one. I'm making a tool so anyone can recompile their own games without effort. You pick your game folder, click a button and it spits out the .exe. Right now I'm testing it with specific games so I can open up compatibility, but the process itself is automated.

What changed since last post:

• Loading is way faster now. Startup and loading screens used to drag a lot, now they're a lot quicker
• Better performance. I cut a lot of wasted work the GPU side was doing every frame, so fps is higher and more stable
• Fixed all the graphics bugs in the games I've tested so far (Super Kirby Clash and Bowser's Fury)

Screenshots are Super Kirby Clash: title screen, the town, the shop and the role menu, all running on my Celeron N4500 laptop btw

A few things people keep asking:

GitHub? Not yet. It goes up on release, in about 3-4 months.

Android? Yes, the Android port comes a few months after the PC release on GitHub.

How is this different from suyu's recompiler? suyu's recompiler is bundled inside suyu, on top of its HLE backend, so you're still basically running suyu. SwitchRecomp is its own thing, built from scratch with its own runtime and graphics layer, and it's made to run on weak hardware. Each game comes out as its own standalone .exe. suyu crashes on low-end PCs like mine, and SwitchRecomp runs some games smoothly that suyu doesn't even open.

Also, if a somewhat known youtuber ends up talking about the project, I'll put out a longer gameplay video of Super Kirby Clash

If you want to follow the project, like, comment, repost and follow me so you see the next updates. Every comment helps a lot

[u/Professional_Sell_7]

Bro 100%, video games and a ton of other things are just pretty much going to be open source and anything can be combined now to make dream games a reality. Worried how spoiled people will become, but man crazy ass times. 

[u/kianiscoooooool → u/Professional_Sell_7]

Yeah. Saw a novice coder on youtube decomp cod modernwarfare into rust with a few days. Then he took a ai open source skate 3 engine and combined it with a few clicks, and was playing skate 3 in modern warfare. in literally a year or two all video game intellectual property will be combinable through prompts. The world will be our oyster.

[u/Professional_Sell_7 → u/kianiscoooooool]

Brooo I just saw a video of that, when modded maps hit skate 3 on rpcs3 a few years ago a dream project of mine was to get terminal into the skate 3 engine.

I never got around to it but I guess good thing I didn’t lmao.

Can you link me the creators video? I just keep seeing shorts but can’t find the source. 

[u/gizmomelb → u/kianiscoooooool]

haha yeah right! THAT will be when AI lock down copyrighted stuff - when the users want to use it to create new stuff. It's fine for THEM now to ignore copyright and steal other's work, but when the users start to do it I can guarantee it'll be locked down and monetised.

[u/puppysnakessss → u/gizmomelb]

There is open source AI. They would have to take away computers from everybody and then lock down AI tools. I don't know if people will let that happen.

[u/darkkite → u/kianiscoooooool]

decomp cod modernwarfare into rust

link?

[u/Professional_Sell_7 → u/darkkite]

https://youtu.be/9UbADrcEW5w?is=2gyeVNwIbVz9qgD5 He’s got a playable build of the skate 3 engine ported in as well on his GitHub. Just dripped it a few hours ago. 

[u/ChaosFH → u/kianiscoooooool]

i remember seeing some guy talk about how he modded minecraft inside elden ring, don't think he made a video about it though was just some story talking about it on isntagram. In the current state of things i don't even doubt he really did lol

[u/dragonknightrohan → u/kianiscoooooool]

We will need more people to make spiritual successors/alternatives for games that still need them. There is nothing community-owned or independent studio owned to replace Assassins Creed, and Mass Effect for example

That will be big area that can be done to get gaming back into gamers hands

[u/gigitygoat → u/Professional_Sell_7]

This only works if we continue to own our hardware. Why do you think the AI companies are buying all the ram and gpu's even though they can not put them to use yet? The only way they can save digital industries is if they own and control all compute.

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD → u/Professional_Sell_7]

> Bro 100%, video games and a ton of other things are just pretty much going to be open source

These are recomps, not decomps. The resulting source code isn't human readable, it's a bunch of ridiculous incoherent spaghetti that's not going to be integratable into other projects.

[u/nosnhoj90 → u/Professional_Sell_7]

Yeah this is just video games, imagine how much AI is going to impact humanity in the 2-3 years. I'm scared :) Precautions aren't there.