Homebrew Discussion [Speculation] Possibility of Microsoft Windows Games ON NINTENDO SWITCH ( wineHQ implementation )?

[madkid]

Games like Dead Space or assassins creed.


Wine
Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.

¿Could it be possible?

 

[djmuted]

Possible, but not practical (it would work really really slowly if at all). Windows apps are made for x86 or x86_64 CPU architectures and the Switch runs on ARM. Emulating x86 on ARM is rather a slow and painful process.

Wine can run on different architectures, still most available Windows applications are x86 ones. As Wine Is Not an Emulator, all those applications can't run on other architectures with Wine alone.

from: https://wiki.winehq.org/Emulation

 

[madkid]

Possible, but not practical (it would work really really slowly if at all). Windows apps are made for x86 or x86_64 CPU architectures and the Switch runs on ARM. Emulating x86 on ARM is rather a slow and painful process.

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that's true, but look at dolphin with arm support

 

[jeremiz]

Misleading thread and fake picture of dead space on switch.

 

[Jpe230]

that's true, but look at dolphin with arm support

With Dolphin you are not emulating x86 you are emulating PowerPC.


Also, Wine is not an emulator. You still need an x86 or x86_64 CPU to be able to to run Windows games and/or programs. Unless someone port Wine for ARM which only has compatibilty with programs or games ported to Windows RT (Microsoft’s 32-bit operating system for ARM architectures).

 

[madkid]

Misleading thread and fake picture of dead space on switch.

the picture was created for me man...

 

[phreaksho]

Man.. I got excited. This would be pretty neat.

 

[madkid]

With Dolphin you are not emulating x86 you are emulating PowerPC.


Also, Wine is not an emulator. You still need an x86 or x86_64 CPU to be able to to run Windows games and/or programs. Unless someone port Wine for ARM which only has compatibilty with programs or games ported to Windows RT (Microsoft’s 32-bit operating system for ARM architectures).

i know that wine is not an emulator

i saw some fork of wine for android devices, but i think it was discontinued and the performance should be garbage

https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/android/

last update: wine-3.16-x86.apk 2018-09-14 15:03130M

 

[Jpe230]

i know that wine is not an emulator

i saw some fork of wine for android devices, but i think it was discontinued and the performance should be garbage

https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/android/

last update: wine-3.16-x86.apk 2018-09-14 15:03130M

Wine for Android requires an x86 CPU if you want it to run x86 windows games. It is not for any Android out there.

 

[Vieela]

I would guess basically impossible, it's much work porting stuff to work on ARM. Wine needs a x86 CPU to be able to run stuff from x86, as it doesn't emulate it, but just gives kind of a background for it to be able to run. It's theorically possible, but the amount of work to make it function would be insane.

 

[DogParty]

Theoretically this would be possible. If someone wanted to port QEMU to the Switch it could be used as a compatibility layer to interface with Wine. See here for the patches required to make it work on the RPi. Though, tbh, if someone ported QEMU it would probably be better to run a stripped down version of Windows XP in it rather than a Linux distro with wine.

 

[Idaho]

that's true, but look at dolphin with arm support

You don't seem to understand a thing here, but yeah keep dreaming, your best shot at playing windows games on the switch would more be with virtualization through linux rather than wine, it could even probably launch a few old school games but nothing like assassin's creed or dead space...

 

[Deleted User]

Man that title got me excited for a bit, that's not cool.

 

[jsherm101]

This is very misleading and doesn't understand the underlying tech. Wine in itself is a compatibility layer for running code built for a different operating system, but in the same architecture (x86) -- wine in itself is not emulation, and on top of that it's not as well developed for ARM which is your first barrier to getting it working on Tegra. Plus you'd still need to port over or emulate the x86->arm components of the program.

Second, once wine is more supported for ARM, which would almost certainly require more powerful ARM processors hitting consumers, given the Tegra X1 is already 3-4 years old, maybe you'll see some opportunities in emulation/compatibility layers for x86 tech.

it's far more likely you'll see someone attempt to port Windows 10 and try to use Windows on ARM translation/emulation technology before you see Wine. Tegra used to be the backbone of WinRT so it's not impossible, just very unlikely without a business use as the real purpose was to get Photoshop and such working on ARM, not games.

dolphin on ARM is also not comparable. The binaries and code was built on ARM, and then it runs the same emulation tech that was originally built on x86. Porting wine would only work if you're also trying to run ARM-based windows code, because it's just adding compatibility for those operations.

 

[M7L7NK7]

We have dosbox at the moment so that's something

 

[The Real Jdbye]

We might see this become practical for some things in the future, since Windows 10 runs on ARM and is technically capable of running desktop programs as long as they're compiled for ARM. Don't think any Windows games support ARM yet though, and since Windows on ARM isn't terribly popular it's never going to be supported by any large amount of games or software.

 

[Pleng]

Wine
Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows

Why have you highlighted FreeBSD?

 

[DKB]

That switch picture is so fake. lol.

 

[madkid]

Wine for Android requires an x86 CPU if you want it to run x86 windows games. It is not for any Android out there.

I have an arm cpu and its running wine, but x86 apps can't run

Man that title got me excited for a bit, that's not cool.

That switch picture is so fake. lol.

for second time... the image was created for me.

"¿Could it be possible?"
I only started a debate, I wasn't affirming nothing

 

[Deleted User]

for second time... the image was created for me.

For the second time, I was talking about the title. The image has nothing to with it and the lack of question marks in the title lead me to believe this was some sort of release.