IANAL, but in the US at least, I think every person would need to buy their own Switch and dump the software themselves for it to be even remotely legal.
The kernel however runs absolutely fine with zero modifications required. HorizonOS is a microkernel, and all the components are fairly well separated. To make it work on a jetson, you'd only have to replace a handful of services to make it work.
> IANAL, but in the US at least, I think every person would need to buy their own Switch and dump the software themselves for it to be even remotely legal.
Honestly, I'm pretty sure it'd violate the DMCA DRM protections in the US (you'd have to dump some crypto keys and provide them to an EL3 reimplementation, like Exosphere, to run anything below the kernel).
Maybe things are more standard now these days, but the support hardware around it, memory layout, etc... at least for the 6502, made this prohibitive.
- You could emulate the hardware only, on its lowest level, and make the user provide the firmware dump. This makes the emulation more faithful, but sourcing the firmware isn't always easy.
- You could instead go up a layer emulate the firmware interface that games see. This might get you performance benefits, because you now have the freedom to optimize the low-level implementation details for your particular host platform, but that would mean the emulation itself would not be 100% accurate.