PLK, a developer known in the PS5 jailbreak scene for tools like Payload Manager and the Y2JB Autoloader, is now working on a native recompilation of GTA 5 for the Nintendo Switch 2. His first clip on X shows the game booting past the Rockstar logo and into the North Yankton prologue, with characters moving inside the bank alongside the minimap and mission text. About two hours later, PLK shared a second video saying the shader glitches were fixed and that build instructions should arrive soon. There are no performance figures or resolution details yet, and no word on how far into the story it gets.

The port runs on kaiHEN, a homebrew environment and minimal custom firmware for the Switch 2 that was released this week. Its GitHub page says Switch 1 homebrew built on libnx can be compiled for the Switch 2, though it also warns that homebrew gets full system access, NAND included, so a malicious app could brick the console. That's quite a jump for a console that only got its first software-only jailbreak in October, which Nintendo has reportedly already patched with firmware 23.5.0.GTA 5 has run natively on Nintendo hardware once before. Paralympics Productions got it working on the original Switch in September, at around 30 FPS with overclocking, until Take-Two sent a cease-and-desist and the group shut down on October 3. PLK's project has no announced link to that team. Rockstar has never released GTA 5 on any Switch console, and given how the last port ended, Take-Two and Nintendo will probably both be watching this one too.