Switch 2 games on iPhone and Mac? Mario Kart World runs, but the tool stays private

According to Retro Handhelds (October 29, 2026), creator @willfaustcuber, known as Faust, ran Switch 2 games on an iPhone 18 Pro and a Mac. The only title named is Mario Kart World. The method relies on a private, modified build of NXNative, a command-line tool described as turning a game's files and a prod.key into an installable IPA for iOS and iPadOS, with a tweak to the build script for macOS.

Faust says the game "should barely run" on 8 GB phones like the iPhone 16, while 12 GB models should have fewer problems. Those figures come from his own posts, not independent testing. The original videos were pulled after a copyright claim.

What is proven and what is not

The project is personal and private: no public version exists yet, and nothing says one will follow. So this is not an emulator you can download and try, and other specialist sources note that no commercial Switch 2 game runs in a public emulator. The context is real, though: a software exploit for the Switch 2 surfaced this month (see our ns2jb article), and the community has since been sharing ways to dump games from one's own console.

To follow the story, Faust's account is on X. As always, use your own games and your own keys, and any unofficial tool carries legal and security risks. We will check whether a public build appears.

Image: PantheraLeo1359531, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (modified).

Source: Retro Handhelds