While Skyline had been in development for over a year, 2022 marked its transition from a technical concept to a functional emulator.
In 2022, the emulator team achieved what many thought impossible: running commercial Nintendo Switch games on Android devices using a from-the-ground-up architecture. The Breakthrough of 2022 2022---Skyline--Android-starts-running-Nintendo-Switch-games
: The Ryujinx team provided technical references for accuracy, while yuzu granted a license exemption to let Skyline use a fork of their shader compiler. While Skyline had been in development for over
: Early in the year, the team reached a major milestone by getting Sonic Mania to render and eventually become playable. titles like Celeste followed
: By May 2022, titles like Celeste followed, and the developers began tackling massive 3D projects like Super Mario Odyssey .