This weekend, Switch owners learned their consoles are apparently holding a hidden copy of the NES game Golf, along with a built-in NES emulator designed to run it. But Switch hacker yellows8 and others who have been able to run that emulator say they’ve only been able to do so via “unofficial” methods that let them run jailbroken Switch binaries independently.
Now that the emulator is widely known to exist, a few diehards and hackers are engaged in an obsessive quest to discover if there’s an “official” way to launch that emulator on stock hardware. While that quest hasn’t borne fruit yet, the search itself is a fascinating look into the subculture of console hacking and the fast-moving world of rumor and conspiracy theory that often surrounds it.
The Setery mystery
Either Setery is playing a really long con here, or he just happened to stumble upon a huge Switch secret months ago, with little fanfare. (credit: GBATemp)
Surprisingly enough, yellows8 probably wasn’t the first person to launch NES Golf on the Switch. That title likely goes to Setery, a user on the GBATemp console hacking forums who posted about the game mysteriously appearing on his system back on July 22. As Setery tells it:
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