Nintendo Switch exclusive Paper Mario: The Origami King is already playable on PC via emulator, days before the game’s official launch.
Footage of the upcoming adventure role-player running on PC has been posted by several YouTube accounts, which are now uploading whole chunks of the unreleased game (thanks Resetera).
Hacked copies of Nintendo Switch games regularly appear on PC emulators, but the leak of a game yet to officially go on sale is a relatively new headache for Nintendo. The quality of Switch emulation is also improving – in the first video below, the game appears to be running with no technical issues.
To be clear, there’s no legal way to play Paper Mario on PC – or any other Nintendo game downloaded from the internet for that matter. Illegally ripping a game’s contents and then distributing them online is something which Nintendo has historically got litigious over.