Recomp / OS & system / Nintendo Switch
Atmosphère
Custom firmware that replaces many Horizon OS system modules and the kernel with open reimplementations.
Clean-room Human-led wipFacts
- Original
- Nintendo Switch Horizon OS components (2017)
- Platform
- Nintendo Switch
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Led by SciresM since 2018 what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- SciresM, Atmosphere-NX
- Started
- 2018
- First release
- 2018-10
- Runs on
- Nintendo Switch
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Nintendo Switch Horizon OS components you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by SciresM, Atmosphere-NX. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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