If you thought the biggest gaming news was the upcoming Switch 2, think again. The emulation community has made a breakthrough: you can now run Nintendo Switch games on your iPhone or iPad at buttery-smooth 60FPS—all offline, with no jailbreak, no shady VPNs, and zero sketchiness.

The JIT Struggle

Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation is a method used by emulators to dramatically improve performance by converting code into machine instructions while the program is running. Normally, an emulator has to interpret every single instruction one-by-one, which is slow. JIT speeds things up by compiling larger chunks of code in real time, allowing games to run closer to native speeds. However, Apple has strict security policies that prevent unauthorized JIT execution on iOS devices. There are some workarounds like JITStreamer or SideJITServer but they all require an internet connection. StikJIT and StosVPN now bypass this restriction by enabling JIT locally, without external servers, making offline Nintendo Switch emulation possible on iPhones. Here’s the difference between no JIT vs JIT-enabled when running emulator on iOS. PPSSPP On iOS 17 (NO JIT vs JIT) iPhone XR

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The Struggle: Why I Needed This

Have you ever stumbled upon a manga so niche and obscure that it never gets an official English release? That was me—desperately trying to read intimate and underrated series that weren’t even on MangaDex, likely due to copyright issues.

At first, I took the long road: hunting for raw Japanese scans, screenshotting pages, and running them through image translation tools. It worked… barely. The process was painfully slow and completely broke my immersion. Instead of enjoying the story, I spent more time waiting on awkward machine translations. It was, in a word, disruptive.

We all love the idea of being super organized, right? We make these grand plans, give it our all for a few weeks or months, and then, bam! We’re back to the good old “throw it in the downloads folder with everything else” routine. It happens to the best of us, and I’m guilty too. But hey, even though I’ve still got loads of room for improvement, I can proudly say I’ve gotten way faster at finding my files.