Check out this modder's doomed quest to turn a Nintendo Switch into a Steam Deck

to install Steam on Nintendo's aging megahit handheld. The resulting 12-minute video is a fascinating look at the digital bowels of the Switch, stripping away that"Nintendo Magic" in an absurd science experiment and revealing the sterile, ordinary computer underneath.

You've already been able to run Ubuntu on Switch for a while, and this would theoretically let you run the Linux version of Steam on a jailbroken console. From there, just pull up the big picture UI and bada bing, Steam Deck unlocked. The first hurdle is hacking a Switch to allow Linux⁠⁠—this is only feasible with older models of the console and it's a process that stressed me out just from watching.

You need your Linux install on an SD card, a USB C-based"payload" to interrupt the initialization of the Switch's own UI, and you have to short the electronic connectors on one of the Switch's Joy Con rails⁠—ideally with a proper tool, but you could potentially do it with aFrom there, after many difficulties, SpikeHD had Linux working on the console, complete with a wandering mouse cursor thanks to my dear old friend, Joy Con drift.

SpikeHD could force-install Steam, but not any games. As a consolation prize, the YouTuber next installed Android with a Steam Deck themed Skin, the closest thing physically possible to an actual Switch Deck.

Source: Gaming Daily Report (gamingdailyreport.net)

There is no reason to buy a Nintendo switch. They can't even make an FPS metroid prime lol

Just get a steamdeck or another pc handheld. No need to wreck a console no more. Nintendo makes good games.

Yet the Nintendo Switch remains out of reach for most people's budgets. It's positively overpriced IMO.

this guy knows the steam deck exists right?

This is old news like years old news.

No longer need to do this. So many mini pc's now. I buy the switch now as a switch. PC stuff i can buy another device.

Been planning to do this for a minute, but I gotta put down my Raspberry Pi first

Definitely less powerful than a Steam Deck

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