The Steam Deck also emulates those same consoles easily (anecdotally, my Deck runs Tears of the Kingdom just as well as or better than an actual Switch), so I'd be surprised if the superior-spec'd Ally didn't.
I’m out of the loop, but I had no idea the Switch was already at what, from the tenor of this comment, would appear to be a Dreamcast level of rootedness. Is that the case?
I'm not sure what you mean by rootedness in this context. The Switch can be rooted to run custom software on official hardware (though I think it's difficult on the latest hardware and firmware revisions), but I don't root mine personally and don't know much about it. The state of rooting is pretty much entirely separate from the state of emulation, which is doing very well. There are currently two major Switch emulators that I'm aware of and they can both play thousands of Switch games just fine, with various tradeoffs and support for game mods.
> The state of rooting is pretty much entirely separate from the state of emulation, which is doing very well.
Well, not completely different topics IIUC. You still need to root switches to extract the keys in order to decrypt the games. Maybe even for the dumping of the games and firmware as well, but not sure. IIUC Nintendo tries its best to blacklist any keys they find and switch consoles if they assume that the switch is rooted, etc.
I thought about buying myself a switch in the past, but the whole process to get control over your own device seems too annoying for me and there are enough non-Nintendo/Switch games out there that work well on a Steam Deck out-of-the-box.
The original switch revision had an unpatchable hardware vulnerability that let you run unsigned code from the bootrom. It's been broken since year one.
If you can find the video explaining how they did it (I guess it was presented at chaos computer club), it's a must see: very funny and enlightening ! (for a geek, that is)
