Skyline Emulator -

Skyline forced the community to learn about Vulkan drivers. The project’s compatibility layer spat out detailed logs that helped open-source driver developers (specifically the Mesa team) fix bugs for actual Android games. Your phone’s ability to run Genshin Impact at 60 FPS today is partially thanks to the debug work done by the Skyline community.

Skyline was a groundbreaking open-source emulator that achieved high-performance, native Nintendo Switch game emulation on ARM-based Android devices, acting more as a compatibility layer than a traditional emulator. Despite its success, development ceased in May 2023 following legal pressures, leading to the archiving of the project. View the archived project on A Look at Nintendo Switch Emulation in 2021 - Boiling Steam 26 May 2021 — skyline emulator

However, the use of Skyline often walked a legal and ethical line: Skyline forced the community to learn about Vulkan drivers

The final message from the team was simple: "We can no longer work on this project. The repository has been archived." The repository has been archived