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Someone just got the Switch 2's Mario Kart World running on a Mac, and Nintendo probably isn't thrilled
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Someone just got the Switch 2's Mario Kart World running on a Mac, and Nintendo probably isn't thrilled

XDA ·Patrick O'Rourke·about 2 hours ago
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Published Oct 27, 2026, 2:23 PM EDT

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup , and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia . He's based in Toronto.

Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more.

Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Summary

Mario Kart World runs natively on macOS via an Nxnative fork — this is the first Switch 2 game to run on Mac.

The port is playable but rough: it's missing shaders, laggy, and has broken geometry.

The ns2jb exploit has let people dump full Switch 2 games, along with models and other data.

Last week, I reported that the Switch 2 had finally been jailbroken…

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