Play your Switch games natively on iPhone & iPad

Not an emulator. The game's own code runs directly on the Apple chip, with Switch graphics rebuilt on Metal. Bring your own NSP files and prod.keys; one script turns them into an IPA you sideload.

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36playable games

11upgraded to 60 fps

0game files in the repo

iOS 26+A17 Pro / M1 or newer

Background

A native port instead of emulation: the game's code is rewritten only where Apple's kernel requires it.

Native execution

Each game's NSO modules are rewritten and run directly on the CPU. A host layer stands in for Horizon, the Switch OS: threads, memory, filesystem, audio and services.

Graphics on Metal

NVN and Vulkan calls are implemented on Metal. Maxwell shaders are translated to SPIR-V, then to Metal Shading Language, at build time.

Bring your own game

Nothing from any game ships here. The packing script reads your NSPs with your keys on your Mac and writes an unsigned IPA for you to sideload.

Per-game profiles

Every game has a small profile of constants and shader tables in dm/games/<title id>. Code reads the profile; it never hard-codes a game.

Built on d2r-mobile, Ryujinx's shader translator, Atmosphère, yuzu, LibHac, SPIRV-Cross and more. See the acknowledgements.

Quick guide

Pack an IPA on a Mac, sideload it, play. The first build takes 30–60 minutes, later ones about 10.

Requirements. A Mac with Xcode and Homebrew; free disk of about twice the NSPs' size plus 10 GB; a target iPhone 15 Pro or newer (A17 Pro+) or an iPad with M1 or later, on iOS / iPadOS 26+ (the games' BC-compressed textures need it).

Get nxnative and its tools

Once, on the Mac.

git clone https://github.com/seedds/nxnative.git && cd nxnative
brew install xcodegen zstd spirv-cross
brew install --cask dotnet-sdk
python3 -m pip install lz4 capstone fonttools "backports.zstd; python_version < '3.14'"

Put one game's NSPs in a folder

The base game (an NSP, or an XCI dump), its update and any DLC.

~/Games/MarioWonder/
  Super Mario Bros. Wonder [010015100B514000][v0].nsp
  Super Mario Bros. Wonder [010015100B514800][v327680].nsp

Run the script

The IPA appears in the same folder.

python3 scripts/build_ipa_from_nsp.py ~/Games/MarioWonder -k ~/keys/prod.keys

Sideload

Install the IPA with AltStore, Sideloadly, LiveContainer or similar. The app takes the game's name, icon and version.

Play

Tap 2D / 3D at the top to switch touch layouts. A connected controller hides the touch controls. In 3D, swipe the right third of the screen for the camera. Shake the phone to shake the controller.