A developer known as Takoroka published Eden-NX2 on October 29, a pre-release build of the Eden emulator that adds experimental support for Nintendo Switch 2 software on Windows. Mario Kart World loads and is playable, but with frequent stutters, poor speed, and visual bugs; Donkey Kong Bananza runs but cannot reach 60 frames per second. It appears to be the first publicly available Switch 2 emulator for PC.
What Eden-NX2 is
Eden-NX2 is a side branch of Eden, the community emulator that grew out of the Yuzu codebase Nintendo shut down in 2024 after suing its developers. The build lives on the Eden project’s own git server, ships only for Windows, and carries Takoroka’s own description: “experimental Switch 2 integration for Eden” that “needs a lot of fixes”.
| Requirement | Detail |
| Platform | Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit |
| Graphics | Vulkan-capable GPU with 8GB or more of VRAM |
| Memory | 16GB of system RAM or more |
| Games | None included; the user supplies game files |
| Source code | Published, tested only on Windows |
| Status | Pre-release, proof of concept |
It does not include games or firmware and loads titles from a game folder the user provides. Testing has been limited to Windows, and virtual environments tend to produce unreliable results.
How it actually runs
Unimplemented shaders leave some meshes missing and cause graphical glitches, according to Takoroka’s release notes. That much shows in every clip of the build so far, and it is the honest state of a project this young.
Reports diverge on the rest. A Centro LEAKS post featuring Mario Kart World footage on X gained more than 11 million views. Separately, some internet clips claimed performance near 60 FPS with occasional shader-recompilation pauses, while other testers describe sluggish performance and chunks of the world absent.
A second project on the same codebase, Eglantine, is aimed at broader compatibility and reportedly runs Mario Kart World more smoothly, though its compatibility list is also short. Eden-NX2 remains a proof of concept, and its long-term stability is unknown.
Why a Switch 2 emulator exists this early
The Switch 2 emulator build arrived about a week after the first public jailbreak, known as ns2jb. Security researcher Sammy Hajhamid, who posts as pepsipu, demonstrated the exploit around October 22 on firmware 23.0.1, apparently through a hole in SmileBASIC 4. It only holds until the console reboots.
The Switch 2 launched in June 2025, so the console was about 16 months old when the first public exploit appeared. Eden grew out of the Yuzu codebase, and Yuzu shut down in 2024 after Nintendo took its developers to court. Eden-NX2 does not include games or firmware; users must source those themselves. Whether Nintendo treats this project the way it treated Yuzu is the open question.
Sources: TweakTown, TechEBlog, git.eden-emu.dev, Techno Ninja on YouTube
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
A Windows-only experimental build of the Eden emulator, published by a developer called Takoroka on October 29, that adds early support for Nintendo Switch 2 games.
No. Mario Kart World boots and is playable with frequent stutters and visual bugs, Donkey Kong Bananza runs below 60 FPS, and unimplemented shaders leave some meshes missing.
Windows 10 or 11 in 64-bit, a Vulkan-capable GPU with at least 8GB of VRAM, and 16GB of RAM or more.
No. It ships without games or firmware, and the user has to supply game files.
It appeared about a week after the first public Switch 2 jailbreak, ns2jb, was demonstrated on firmware 23.0.1. The projects are separate.
Emman Tortoza
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
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