# carafe-nx/carafe

> Desktop app that packs a Windows game folder into an NSP for a custom-firmware Nintendo Switch, so the game appears on the HOME Menu with its own icon and saves. The NSP bundles an Autorun-based runtime (Wine for Horizon OS, Box64/FEX, DXVK, Mesa).

- Magnitude: 3.5 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 163 total · +29 stars measured 2026-10-12, 00:14–18:56 UTC, ≈ 36 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: Rust · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-10-08 · Last push: 2026-10-12
- GitHub: https://github.com/carafe-nx/carafe · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/carafe-nx/carafe

## Useful for

- Build an NSP from a Windows game folder and install it on the Switch over USB via DBI
- Give a game its own name, icon and save data on the console's HOME Menu
- Test how a specific game runs on the Switch and file a report in Compatibility

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-12 (UTC), 00:14–18:56: 134 → 163 stars (+29). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +36 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 163 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #116.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 8
- Issues and pull requests: 5
- Watchers: 8
- Average over the last week: 35 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4
- Latest release: v0.2.2 (2026-10-11)

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-08 … 2026-10-12: 1, 49, 59, 30, 29

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-11 4.0, 10-12 3.6

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #116

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   Unofficial port of the Eden Nintendo Switch emulator for PS5 homebrew. Lets you run Switch games on a PlayStation 5 console.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/blackbearreloaded/ProsperoEden.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-12 19:07 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.