The Ryujinx emulator, a popular tool for emulating Nintendo Switch games on PCs, has been taken down following a request from Nintendo. This action is part of Nintendo’s broader crackdown on emulation and homebrew communities, particularly as the company seeks to protect its intellectual property and revenue streams.
More discussion here:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/26026271
From the gbatemp.net article:
UPDATE #3: According to an official statement on Ryujinx’s Discord server, developer gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and they were offered an agreement to stop working on the emulator project, and while the agreement wasn’t confirmed yet, the organization has been entirely removed.
This is not a case of copyright infringement, so I feel comfortable linking these source code mirrors:
https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx
https://git.l7y.media/mirrors/Ryujinx
The commit hashes on both of those mirrors match the official ones at least until March 2024 (v1.1.1217). I can’t vouch for the more recent commits that extend through today (v1.1.1403), but the two mirrors do at least match each other.
Warning: A zip file in the ryujinx_202410 subdir of https://archive.org/download/ claims to have the full git history, but the hashes do not match the original source repo. It’s possible that the mismatch is an artifact of some accident, rather than malice, but I would avoid it just in case.
Ok…but how is Switch “retro gaming”?
I’d say the general blow against emulators is relevant.
The website covers emulation news, be it old or new. Also Nintendo might go after older emulators at this rate.
Given that videos are currently getting copyright stuck if just having screenshots of over 10+ year old games…yeah its relevant.
*2017 sure seems like a hundred years ago.
But that was only…
Fetal position, crying
Unclear if I don’t get an inside joke, or if that’s a typo for 2017.
Like at least a hundred million billion years ago
Do you get confused when the New York Times writes articles about something in Chicago?
It would make me immensely happy for Nintendo to be labeled a vexatious litigant. It’ll never happen, but let me dream damn it
For the litigation they didn’t do?
I’m sure that would have followed if the threat was insufficient. Not like they haven’t litigated before
Sell out
