TVPort Runs Nintendo Switch Games Natively on Apple TV 4K
A Redditor used Claude Code to build TVPort, an open-source tool that recompiles Switch and Switch 2 games to run natively on the Apple TV 4K.
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giftdetect· the right gift in minutesA Reddit user has released TVPort, an open-source project that recompiles Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 games so they run natively on the Apple TV 4K. The developer, u/FloatingFalafel, says the work was done with Claude Opus 5.5, and the tool runs from a Mac.
TVPort is a fork of the nxnative toolkit. According to its creator, most games behave much the same as on the Switch, but some load textures into memory differently and must be diagnosed and fixed before they run properly. The developer also claims the tool backs up save files to a Mac or iCloud and lets users choose a target frame rate of 30 or 60 fps.
What runs, and what doesn't
Super Mario Odyssey is said to run at 60 fps with "very slight stutters on occasion and some audio issues around waterfalls specifically." Animal Crossing: New Horizons appears to be capped at 30 fps, and the developer reports no issues there.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a harder case. It hit thermal throttling on the Apple TV during tests. Getting it to run would take serious diagnostics and even partial rewrites of the game's engine as a patch, the developer said, adding that heavier games like it might never run on the third-generation Apple TV 4K.
The repository contains no game files. Users have to supply their own, legally obtained from their own Switch cartridges.
A contentious trend
The project is one of several recent efforts to use AI tools, Claude Code in particular, to port or recreate software on other platforms. The practice is divisive. The operators of decomp.dev, a prominent site for game decompilation, recently said they were shutting it down because bad actors using AI had broken the community aspect of decompilation. Anthropic has since instructed Claude Code not to recreate existing games.
Whatever one thinks of the method, TVPort shows what the Apple TV 4K can do as a gaming device. The Switch is almost 10 years old and was underpowered even at launch, but the set-top box is clearly capable of more than streaming TV shows and live sports.
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