A Redditor has released an open-source project allowing Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 games to run natively on Apple TV. The initiative, called TVport, recompiles Switch game dumps for the Apple TV platform. So far, Super Mario Odyssey and Animal Crossing: New Horizons are running, with work ongoing on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
The project lead notes that most games run similarly to the Switch, though some require diagnosis due to different texture loading. A 4th-gen Apple TV with 8GB RAM is recommended for some titles, though the ports currently function on 3rd-gen hardware. The work demonstrates the potential of using Claude Code for reverse engineering and recompilation.
Another Redditor is also porting Nintendo 64 games to Apple TV using an app called Nativecade. The longevity of such projects remains uncertain.
Source: 9to5Mac · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing