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Nintendo Switch 2 Emulator Available Now, Already Supports Mario Kart World

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Nintendo Switch 2 Emulator Available Now, Already Supports Mario Kart World

The first-ever Switch 2 emulator has just been made public, and it can already run Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza.

As reported by DSOGaming, developer Takoroka has published a pre-release build of Eden-NX2 to their Git page, warning that it "needs a lot of fixes" and only supports Windows right now, with unimplemented shaders causing mesh errors.

You can see the emulator in action thanks to a video shared by Centro Leaks (embedded below), which showcases Mario Kart World running on PC.

The game frequently stutters and there are some glaring texture issues, while Donkey Kong Bananza is unable to hit 60fps, but this is a massive milestone for Switch 2 emulation. Emulators typically spend months stuck on black screens and crashes before being able to render 3D games.

With that in mind, given how fast things are progressing, it’s not farfetched to imagine Switch 2 emulation outperforming native hardware soon, just like the original Switch emulators did.

Centro Leaks' video has gone viral, racking up 1.7 million views at the time of writing, which puts Takoroka in a bit of an awkward spot. Nintendo has historically launched aggressive campaigns against emulation, targeting Switch emulators like Yuzu and Ryujinx.

Emulators themselves are entirely legal, but Nintendo shut down Yuzu by arguing that bypassing console encryption violates DMCA anti-circumvention provisions. However, because Yuzu settled out of court, no legal precedent was ever set. Ryujinx likewise settled out of court to avoid an expensive legal battle with Nintendo.


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