Recomp / OS & system / Nintendo Switch
Saturnus
Open-source reimplementation of the Horizon RTOS microkernel used by the Nintendo Switch.
Rewrite Human-led stalledFacts
- Original
- Horizon microkernel (Nintendo Switch) (2017)
- Platform
- Nintendo Switch
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2021, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- stalled
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- vbe0201
- Started
- 2021-08
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Download it from the official repository. No original files are needed.
This project was rebuilt by vbe0201. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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