'Super Mario Odyssey' Can Now Run on Apple TV Thanks to AI
A Reddit user was able to get Nintendo's "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" and "Super Mario Odyssey" to run natively on the Apple TV 4K , continuing a string of ports made possible with the use of AI (via Engadget ). TVPort , Reddit user FloatingFalafel's open-source project, is a fork of the nxnative toolkit used to recompile Switch and Switch 2 games for the Apple TV using a Mac. It was built…
A Reddit user named FloatingFalafel discovered a way to run Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Mario Odyssey on Apple TV 4K using AI technology. The open-source project TVPort, based on the nxnative toolkit, recompiles Switch and Switch 2 games for the Apple TV with the help of Claude Opus 5.5. Super Mario Odyssey runs at 60fps while Animal Crossing runs at 30fps.
Users must supply game files from their own game cartridges, requiring a modified Nintendo Switch. While other games haven't been tested, TVPort may not be sustainable due to Nintendo's opposition to unofficial methods of accessing their games. Nintendo sued the Yuzu emulator team in 2024, resulting in a $2.4 million settlement and the shut down of the emulator.
The fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, launching November 13, might handle more intensive games that the third-generation model can't manage.
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