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Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
- jsheard 2y agoFor clarity, Ryujinx has no connection to the Yuzu Switch emulator which Nintendo unleashed their wrath on earlier this year. They were developed independently of each other, by different people, in parallel until Yuzus demise.
- notamy 2y agohttps://gbatemp.net/threads/ryujinx-emulator-github-repository-currently-down.661497/ https://gbatemp.net/threads/ryujinx-emulator-github-reposito... > 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.
- duxup 2y agoI get the message but this is one of those things where you should have YOUR explanation ready before you pause everything... Granted that's understandable if they didn't choose the timeline.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoIt's hard to blame a hobby group for not having a perfect comms strategy.
- the_gorilla 2y agoIt's still true, though. If they really don't want people to speculate on why they did something, they can provide a reason. It doesn't require an entire PR team to figure that out.
- borski 2y agoIf and only if this was their intent and timeline. May be external.
- Xylakant 2y agoThey may have been hit by something entirely unexpected and may still need to get their bearings. "It's not github, it's not a DCMA takedown." may very well be the only thing they can communicate with a modicum of certainty at this moment.
- klyrs 2y agoThere are a million reasons not to say something, and a blush of legal anything should deter you from opening your mouth in public before you're straight with a lawyer.
- nine_k 2y agoIf what you say may have legal implications, it might be wiser to just say "no comments" for some time, while seeking proper counseling. "Not DMCA" and "not GitHub" is plenty already. But maybe it's a possible malware infiltration, or having something unbecoming committed to the repo by mistake, or anything else that might warrant denying public access for some time to prevent damage.
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- squeaky-clean 2y agoI think protecting themselves from being sued into oblivion is more important than getting a message out to users an hour earlier. We don't have any form of SLA agreement with Ryujinx Also the project is being shut down. Why should they care about community reaction?
- the_gorilla 2y agoWhy do I get so many inane responses every time I post here? Does it really take 5 people? It's impossible to respond even if I wanted to.
- klyrs 2y agoThis, a hundred times over. It turns out that communication isn't entirely a bullshit field of study* and it requires significant planning and effort to keep people happy. * note: all fields have bullshit; this is a recent learning of mine -- unlearning, rather, of a single day of a communications class which left me with the impression that many of us here seem to have of soft sciences: all bullshit by default.
- ls612 2y agoI mean it's hard to imagine this being anything other than the worst.
- Liquix 2y ago> it's not a DMCA, it's not an issue with GitHub. glaring omission of the statement "it's not an issue with Nintendo". they have a reputation for relentlessly pursuing the creators of homebrew/emu projects like this. sometimes even going as far as contracting operatives to stalk hobby devs living outside of Japan. look up "nintendo ninjas"...
- jsheard 2y agoRE: Update 3 (gdkchan being "encouraged" to step down) I'm mostly just surprised it took Nintendo this long to make a move - the Switch is on its last legs, its successor is less than a year away and almost certainly won't be hacked for a good while. Acting in a way that's bound to piss everyone off but doing it so late that the upside to them is minimal (there won't be that many more new Switch games to pirate at this point) is a weird unforced error. Lawyers move in mysterious ways I guess.
- textadventure 2y agoDo you think the average joe who owns a Switch or is a potential client for their next console, is even aware of any of this happening? This is the tiniest of stories. The only way the public at large can become aware of emulators is if they hit a big app store. So as far as timing of this move goes, it's as good a time as any to "protect what's theirs".
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- Lan 2y agoI would assume the launch of the Switch successor is why they are clamping down. It's likely very similar architecturally to the Switch. Nobody knows how long it would take to hack it, someone could be silently sitting on an exploit that they've been saving to see if it'll work on the successor. In the event it's hacked quickly and there are still actively developed Switch emulators, it wouldn't be a stretch to believe support would quickly be added to those emulators for the successor.
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- sundarurfriend 2y ago> Acting in a way that's bound to piss everyone off but doing it so late that the upside to them is minimal ... is a weird unforced error. This describes their response to Palworld (the Pokemon-"inspired" game that they're suing now) too. When Palworld came out, everyone was talking about how it blatantly copied things and how surprised they are that Nintendo is doing nothing. Now, after several months of people playing Palworld and many of them enjoying it, Nintendo is suddenly choosing to sue them. And predictably, the general response is a lot more negative now, with people having a lot more positive associations with Palworld and having gotten used to assuming that it's here-to-stay. > Lawyers move in mysterious ways I guess. Indeed. The timeline to build a case doesn't necessarily align with the business profit goals (like in the Switch case) nor with the public relations goals (like in the Palworld case).
- nurettin 2y agoInteresting, I wonder if this means that they got paid.
- ndiddy 2y agoIn case anyone's curious about Nintendo's general MO (not sure how similar this case is) around 10 years ago they successfully prevented someone from publishing a method to run arbitrary code on the 3DS using an NDA and the threat of legal action. Here's some documents detailing their approach: https://archive.org/details/Knock_And_Talk_directcontact/Knock_And_Talk_directcnotact/Final%20Enforcement%20Proposal%20Neimod%204%205%2013/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Knock_And_Talk_directcontact/Kno...
- alfalfasprout 2y agoGiven that Ryujinx is open source, I wonder what rights other OSS contributors have? Surely there's nothing stopping another fork from continued development provided nothing illegal is happening.
- zamadatix 2y agoEven if you think/"know" the project to be 100% legit do you want to be the OSS contributor that spends the next year or two in court fighting Nintendo about it or did you just like writing some emulator code once in a while in your spare time?
- koolala 2y agoA threat is not a natural 'agreement'.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoDoesn't look to be DMCA'd see here for GitHub DMCA takedowns: https://github.com/github/dmca https://github.com/github/dmca I wonder if they went after the maintainer directly.
- CryZe 2y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they showed up at the maintainer's house even.
- ntqvm 2y agoAccording to the Discord, that’s exactly what they did.
- hu3 2y agoI can picture expensive looking lawyers arriving at their door, carrying leather briefcases and delivering an ultimatum: "Listen carefully, my friend, let me help you out. Here are your options: 1) Delete the code, stop working on it, take this $1 million, and enjoy some peace. Think about your family, you deserve a stress-free life. If you choose this, you'll never hear from us again. 2) Keep resisting, and I'll personally see to it that not a day passes where we don’t make your life difficult. You'll end up spending most of your time, energy, money, and sanity fighting a battle that, for me, is just another Tuesday. Not a tough decision, is it?"
- kmeisthax 2y agoLive footage of the lawyers in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p7uJp25BlE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p7uJp25BlE
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- givinguflac 2y agoDarn. I finally got pop os working the way I like and was about to set up my emulation stuff this weekend. Now Nintendo has successfully stopped me forever! /s
- giancarlostoro 2y agoThe only thing they've guaranteed is that I'll never buy another one of their consoles or games again. For context I only buy PC and Nintendo.
- mrfinn 2y agoYet another chapter of Nintendo's wrath against the people? How long the world is going to be dominated by absurd copy(made up)right laws? PS. Even if that wouldn't be the case here, my POV stands. Current copy(made up)right laws don't even make tiny-little sense nowadays. FREEDOM NOW FOR HUMAN KNOWLEDGE once for all FGS.
- Sakos 2y agoThis is absolutely the case considering their insane lawsuit on Palworld, which is a patent dispute. Nintendo has clearly turned evil and this is only going to cause great harm and strife in the gaming industry long-term if they win. We've been largely free of patent trolling in gaming aside from the lawsuits against hardware technologies like vibration (which is itself insanity and harmful), but this would open the flood gates.
- gs17 2y ago> Nintendo has clearly turned evil They've been roughly like this for a long time. They're very protective of their IP.
- numpad0 2y agoUpdating a software patent application and then suing a competitor to strip profits is Nintendo's modus operandi. There was one settled for $30m(then) as recent as 2021, just not known outside the country. 1: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-s-lawsuit-forces-japanese-dev-to-cough-up-30-1847420631 https://kotaku.com/nintendo-s-lawsuit-forces-japanese-dev-to...
- bitwize 2y ago> Nintendo has clearly turned evil Astronaut 2: Always has been. See: Nintendo v. Galoob, Atari and Tengen v. Nintendo, their predatory in general business practices throughout the NES era. Just because Shigeru Miyamoto flashes his friendly Austin Powers grin and opens up another world of wonder playable on your Switch doesn't mean that the company doesn't or never had a dark side. Hell, the man himself cancelled StarFox 2 to pillage its 3D transform code for use in Super Mario 64.
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- mikae1 2y agoDoesn't matter what the reason is this time. Next time it will undoubtedly be DMCA considering what happened to Yuzu. This is the perfect case for some sort of decentralized Git[1] or a Git repo via Tor. [1] https://radicle.xyz https://radicle.xyz
- square_usual 2y agoWhat happened to Yuzu was that they took money to help people pirate a brand new game. I don't think that's a reasonable take.
- squigz 2y agoI'm a big advocate of emulation (and piracy, frankly) but yeah, honestly, painting the Yuzu developers as the victims is insane. How much were they pulling in via Patreon? $30,000 a month?
- gjsman-1000 2y agoMandatory reminder as well, to the emulation community, that $30K a month is probably enough to fund a legal defense...
- squigz 2y agoPerhaps not against Nintendo, but yes.
- EMIRELADERO 2y agoWhat's wrong with getting money out of a product? The fact that it was an emulator changes nothing. They would have been sued, Patreon or no Patreon. Making an emulator is not illegal. And I don't mean gray-area not illegal, I mean court-precedent not illegal.
- gjsman-1000 2y ago> court-precedent not illegal Under precedents established before the DMCA was law, and under lawsuits filed before the DMCA was applicable, on consoles which did not have encryption on which the DMCA would have applied.
- k__ 2y agoIf you want to avoid such a takedown, check out: https://protocol.land/ https://protocol.land/ https://radicle.xyz/ https://radicle.xyz/
- ezfe 2y agoIt wasn't taken down by Github, it was seemingly taken down by the maintainers. Git already provides protection against this via local copies, so there's no benefit.
- k__ 2y agoData on protocol.land is permanent and can't be deleted.
- squeaky-clean 2y agoThat sounds much worse for projects like this unless the authors go fully anonymous and always practice clean opsec. Nintendo probably sent them a deal along the lines of "Agree to take down the project or else we will sue you for millions of dollars". Could you imagine if you were served that and had to respond "it is impossible for me to take down the project because of the hosting I used." Even if it's a trial Ryujinx could win... Winning and trial isn't free, and you can often can't recoup attorney fees.
- ezfe 2y agoOkay and I'm not sure maintainers want that
- _flux 2y agoHow does it deal with material that lands people in the jail?
- mtndew4brkfst 2y agoNot familiar with the first but the second is funded by a commercial company whose core focus is Ethereum-based, and they're making another cryptocurrency and caused a bunch of PR spammers the same way Tea did. https://radicle.xyz/faq https://radicle.xyz/faq https://docs.radworks.org/#projects https://docs.radworks.org/#projects https://www.drips.network/ https://www.drips.network/
- adzm 2y agoYouTube accounts showing devices that emulate Nintendo games have been targeted recently as well https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/10/nintendo-is-now-going-after-youtube-accounts-which-show-its-games-being-emulated https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/10/nintendo-is-now-g...
- onlyrealcuzzo 2y agoIronically, this is the type of behavior that will make me STOP buying a company's products. They're obviously doing this because they think their losing sales - which they probably are on net. But I wish more people would stop buying products from companies that try to ruins people's literal lives over - essentially - a rounding error to the company's bottom line.
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- onlyrealcuzzo 2y agoNintendo's success during the Switch era is completely orthogonal to their recent overly zealous litigation.
- pezezin 2y agoIt is not recent, they have been like this for decades.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoI haven’t bought a Nintendo product in almost a decade. My life is better for it. Previously I avidly bought every MH, every Pokémon, would have bought the Digimon releases on Switch too. A fair portion of the recent Zeldas too. Nowadays I play pirated games on my 3DS and am quite happy, far happier than I had been paying Nintendo only to fuck over the things I enjoy. My impact may be small, but that hardly matters because at least I‘m putting my (lack of) money where my mouth is.
- asddubs 2y agofor comparison, here's what a DMCAd repo looks like: https://github.com/yuzu-mirror/yuzu https://github.com/yuzu-mirror/yuzu
- boltzmann-brain 2y agoWhat ever exactly happened, ultimately this is just another corporation trying to disturb people in their ownership of their purchased property, in specific video games. Anyone who really thinks about this topic will start questioning why some company located on an island on the other side of the world should be dictating what I do or don't do with a cartridge or disc I paid for with my own money and which is in my possession. It's just ludicrous behavior from a group of power-hungry megalomaniacs. This is why it's important to claw back as much ownership in that space as possible. If you want things to move in the right direction, you should sign https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci if you're an EU citizen, or support them in any other way if you're not. This stuff is important and will ultimately decide whether we own things in our life or not, as increasingly more items have critical features that are anchored in the digital world. Without stuff like that we will become digital paupers.
- wilsonnb3 2y ago> Anyone who really thinks about this topic will start questioning why some company located on an island on the other side of the world Why does the location of the company matter? They have branches in america and Europe even if it does somehow matter. > should be dictating what I do or don't do with a cartridge or disc I paid for with my own money and which is in my possession You can't ignore the entire idea of intellectual property just because you have a physical disc or cartridge in your possession. There are arguments to be made against IP but this is just lazy.
- dclowd9901 2y agoIf it was really about IP, they wouldn’t be going after emulators, they’d be going after rom distributors. It’s not like there’s some secret special industry secret aspect to their 8 year old hardware. There’s IP protections and then there’s whatever this is.
- chefandy 2y agoIt's just a matter of strategy— their goal is to get people to buy the game who might otherwise use an emulated copy. They aren't doing it for the principle— It's a sale in their pocket and avoids downward pressure on their price from cheaper (free) sources. Agree with their actions or not, attacking the tiny mechanism that makes all roms useful is far more efficient than trying to whack-a-mole with a bazillion ROM sources forever. Even intimidating ROM sites out of existence only means they'll get distributed elsewhere. It's much harder to run an open source dev project in secret than it is to seed a huge library of ROMS over BT.
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- tightbookkeeper 2y agoHope nothing happens to anything you have an interest in.
- textadventure 2y agoThat probably applies to like 90% of posts here.
- EasyMark 2y agoWhy not scroll on past then? Most posts here are technical or fairly specific, do you come to all the article comments and say they are irrelevant?
- alext54321 2y agoIf nintendo could come into your hoise and smash all your old games consoles so you buy thr rerelease, they would do it.
- MarioMan 2y agoI was shocked to learn there was a short period in the '90s when even reselling your physical games was outlawed in Japan. At the time, Nintendo put "no resale" icons on the back of all their games.
- favorited 2y agoWe'll be back to that same state of affairs, once physical game media is phased out. The PlayStation platform has gone from the PS4 (universal optical media) to the PS5 (cheaper model without optical media) to the PS5 Pro (no optical media without a separate accessory). Hell, it's already happened for PC games.
- jwrallie 2y agoI understand protecting new console sales and current IPs, after all many people are currently employed and working on it, and in Japanese law this is protected under unfair competition. But when Nintendo just recycles old games, many times with inferior quality compared to the originals, they are not advancing the industry at all. And I’m sure they would totally be into bricking your old consoles and stop all the used game market if they could.
- 1propionyl 2y ago> Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he's in control of. While awaiting confirmation on whether he would take this agreement, the organization has been removed, so I think it's safe to say what the outcome is. Rather than leave you with only panic and speculation, I decided to write this short message to give some closure. Taken from Discord announcement.
- dmonitor 2y agoSo they bribed him into taking down the project? That's certainly one way to go about it.
- moritzruth 2y agoI also thought that at first, but they could have just threatened him with a lawsuit if he does not "agree".
- wilsonnb3 2y agoIndeed, i would be very surprised if Nintendos offer was all carrot and no stick.
- 1propionyl 2y agoIt's probably a C&D.
- EasyMark 2y agoMore likely a verbal threat, take the $20k carrot or we’ll see you in court over the next few years.
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- gnarbarian 2y agothis is why centralized "free" services like discord and github are a big risk to projects that exist in a legal gray area. hard to beat a physical server you own in a data center you have a contract with.
- textadventure 2y agoGithub didn't do anything here, it was the project owned who did: https://twitter.com/RyujinxEmu/status/1841188744126480428 https://twitter.com/RyujinxEmu/status/1841188744126480428 So the exact same thing would have happened with whomever owned the physical server.
- tester756 2y agoOne of the most impressive C# code bases :(
- kcb 2y agoMicrosoft themselves have highlighted Ryujinx as an example of high performance modern .NET.
- JamesSwift 2y agoI submitted a PR a couple months ago and was really pleasantly surprised at how accessible it was to contribute. No funny business, just `git clone` and open up Rider. I was only touching the frontend client (i.e. game library screen etc, not the actual emulation), but it took less than two weeks to go from zero-to-PR-submitted on a fairly complex refactor.
- jsheard 2y agoThe name Ryujinx is even a C# in-joke of sorts, early iterations of the emulator translated the Switches ARM code into .NET CIL bytecode and then used the standard .NET JIT, which is called RyuJIT, to translate that to native code. NX was the Switches codename, so RyuJIT + NX, minus the T, makes Ryujinx. They eventually outgrew that approach and rolled their own JIT, but the name had stuck at that point.
- theragra 2y agoThanks a lot, you clarified my confusion about these two things
- hypeatei 2y agoNew update (from discord): > Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he's in control of. While awaiting confirmation on whether he would take this agreement, the organization has been removed, so I think it's safe to say what the outcome is. Rather than leave you with only panic and speculation, I decided to write this short message to give some closure. ...
- rcarmo 2y agoWow. When yuzu was taken down I wrote a script to automatically download the 5 latest releases of a few other emulators I use, and that included Ryujinx (so I do have the binaries for those, which will go into safekeeping). Now I wish I had set up a Gitea mirror as well, even though I would likely never build it myself. Edit: here's the script - https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/89afd64747fc909e80b29abc902c89d0 https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/89afd64747fc909e80b29abc902c8... It is designed to be very low impact (I had it on a daily cron). Feel free to use it to ensure you can preserve the software you rely on. As far as I'm concerned, I'm _very_ sad that Nintendo has now made it impossible to enjoy my games on better hardware, and will probably focus on PC gaming henceforth (there are lots of nice indie games on Steam, like Dredge, which is my current favorite).
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- rererereferred 2y agoDo forks go away together with the original repository when it's removed from Github?
- textadventure 2y agoIn this case it seems so, someone just uploaded the codebase again (archived): https://github.com/emmauss/Ryujinx https://github.com/emmauss/Ryujinx
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- radicalbyte 2y agoI am strongly reconsidering buying a Switch 2 now. This is absolutely disgusting from Nintendo.
- cooper_ganglia 2y agoNintendo's behavior recently has guaranteed that I will never purchase another Nintendo product ever again. I'm exclusively pirating their games from now on, lol
- Janicc 2y agoIt's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo Games.
- zzo38computer 2y agoI don't purchase Nintendo products either (except for the flower cards which I have purchased once, and they are of good quality), but I think that modifications of some games for Nintendo systems are of better quality than the original official games anyways, so it is generally the modified versions of the games that I will pirate instead.
- pezezin 2y agoHave you been living under a rock? Nintendo has been like this since the NES days.
- EasyMark 2y agoDon’t buy it, put money towards a PC system or card. I’m done with Nintendo after this. It takes a lot to make me skip out on Mario, but in the end Nintendo burned through all of my nostalgia for them from my childhood
- komali2 2y agoMe as well though I may try to get a day 1 switch 2 to never update to keep around for trying to hack. Might be able to contribute to getting an emulator out ASAP for it :)
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708771
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- EasyMark 2y agoWell that seals the deal, never buying a Nintendo product again. I’m sure I don’t matter to them but I’ll help friends and family get more into PC and retro gaming if they want to pick my brain.
- raxxorraxor 2y agoTheir profits plunged significantly and this seems like a futile attempt to compensate. They are still far better off than Sony is currently. Also it turned out PC gaming wasn't dead after all. Even with many major publishers failing pretty hard, the market still grew. I have a bit of hope that there is a renaissance of open systems because they simply are superior in every conceivable way and that people are fed up with shitty compromises.
- sweeter 2y agoThis just affirms the idea that Nintendo doesn't care about legality, they are extremely litigious and will attack anything and everything they perceive to be as harmful to them whether it is actually harmful or not.
- bittwiddle 2y agoSo I understand wanting to build emulators so that people can continue to play their old games after the hardware fails. But in building an emulator for a current generation console, it seems likely that much of the audience is just interested in pirating the games.
- cloogshicer 2y agoThe Switch hardware is so underpowered that most games run a lot better (no framedrops, higher resolution) on PC.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoIt doesn't matter what most people are doing, emulators are legal.
- m-p-3 2y agoLegal or not, Nintendo will release its hounds and drown you in court fees. Personally, I'd rather not have to deal with this legal bullshit and stress in my life.
- supernikio2 2y agoThe problem then it's anti-SLAPP not doing what it's supposed to.
- Janicc 2y agoGood. If there's one company that deserves to have their stuff pirated, it's Nintendo.
- textadventure 2y agoSomeone else re-uploaded the repo (archived): https://github.com/emmauss/Ryujinx https://github.com/emmauss/Ryujinx
- hypeatei 2y agoThat doesn't look to be an up-to-date fork at all. Latest commit is from 5 years ago.
- sublimefire 2y agoLook at other branches, e.g. arm_delegate_native was active yesterday
- guax 2y agoLast master commit as of two days ago was very different: https://web.archive.org/web/20240929032514/https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx https://web.archive.org/web/20240929032514/https://github.co... So not a good fork either way since the builds were made out of master.
- textadventure 2y agoHere is an updated mirror: https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx
- hypeatei 2y agoNice, good find!
- morserer 2y ago5 years old :(
- textadventure 2y agoUpdated mirror: https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx
- guax 2y agoI always though switch emulation got too good too fast. Switch being such weak hardware you can emulate it on a potato. Nintendo must've been eyeing an angle to close Ryujinx for a while now. It would be very interesting if the main dev actually got paid to delete everything. Although it looks like a "dick move" at first, if you know the source will live on and you get retirement money. I would be very pressed to accept if in that situation. Much more likely they just offered to not sue him to oblivion. I honestly don't blame Nintendo for angling emulators with everything they have while the hardware is current. They have much shittier behaviour when interacting with the community, like suing tournaments that used mods and threatening others.
- bluescrn 2y agoI'm wondering if the anticipated Switch 2 is going to be very similar to the current device in terms of architecture and OS, and the real concern of Nintendo isn't Switch 1 piracy right now, it's that the current Switch emulators could evolve into Switch 2 emulators in the early months/years of the new hardware lifecycle, emulators able to play ripped Switch 2 games well before anyone figures out how to mod the new hardware to enable piracy. But they probably also want to re-sell us previous games, too, particularly if they can run 'remastered' versions of the Switch Zelda games at a better resolution/framerate on the new hardware - which you can already to via emulation...
- guax 2y agoI am sure the Switch 2 is just a more powerful switch. Still massively underpowered compared to a PC so updating the emulators to run switch 2 would be a fast affair considering how easy people were able to dump the first one. Its likely just a "switch pro" iteration that the OLED never was. Its likely inevitable considering the hunger for pirated nintendo games on markets like Brazil with a large supply of competent hackers and not much chance of people being able to afford legit games.
- nephy 2y agoThese projects really need to start standing up their own Gitea or Gitlab instances and mirroring to GitHub. It also cracks me up every time I see legalistic apologists on this website backing up giant corporations. A) Who cares about the law? It’s rarely moral. B) Which laws should we follow? The internet exists in every country.
- hypeatei 2y agoHN has a lot of people suggesting regulations and laws as a solution to almost everything in existence. It doesn't surprise me that same thought pattern also shows itself in emulator takedown discussions like this one.
- kaishin 2y agoI doubt hosting on Gitea or Gitlab would have helped in this case since Nintendo reached an agreement with the lead developer.
- haunter 2y agoProbably because of the backwards compability of Switch 2. Just imagine emulators outperforming bc games, which of course will happen lol
- mikae1 2y agoHere's a recent (unofficial) AppImage for future use... https://web.archive.org/save/https://github.com/Samueru-sama/Ryujinx-AppImage/releases/download/continuous/Ryujinx-1.1.1401-x86_64.AppImage https://web.archive.org/save/https://github.com/Samueru-sama... EDIT: it's not the latest. 1.1.1403 is the latest.
- rcarmo 2y agoSomeone should mirror the flatpaks
- mikae1 2y agoJust upgraded the Flathub flatpak to the latest version on my machine. Not sure what's the recommended way to keep two stray Flatpak apps alive. I have the latest Yuzu flatpak installed on one machine and the latest Ryujinx flatpak on another. How do I save them for the future and migrate them to a new machine? https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference.html#flatpak-create-usb https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference... ?
- rcarmo 2y agoflatpak build-bundle /var/lib/flatpak/repo org.ryujinx.Ryujinx.VERSION.flatpak org.ryujinx.Ryujinx stable is what you need.
- mikae1 2y ago> Since single-file bundles don’t include dependencies or AppStream data, the preferred way of distributing applications offline is with the create-usb command; see USB Drives.[1] Sounds kind of bad for this use case? [1] https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/single-file-bundles.html https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/single-file-bundles.html
- silverliver 2y agoIf you're on a system where flatpak is installed, you can easily and quickly create installable flatpaks yourself (complete with their dependencies) in case Nintendo decides to abuse law to intimidate and extort flatpak itself. 1. Add a collection Id for the remote you will be using to get the app if you haven't already. To check, run `flatpak remotes -d`. To add, run `flatpak remote-modify --collection-id=org.flathub.Stable flathub`. 2. Download the app and dependencies and collect them into a single copyable directory: flatpak create-usb PATH_TO_USB_OR_DIR org.ryujinx.Ryujinx And presto! you have a 570MB offline installable flatpak that you can distribute among your family and friends. They can enjoy Ryujinx by running: flatpak install --sideload-repo=PATH_TO_USB_OR_DIR/.ostree/repo flathub org.ryujinx.Ryujinx Nintendo, may you become irrelevant as quickly as the 3 e-waste switches we have laying around collecting dust in our house. Fuck you and the slimy minions that abuse the law and infringe on the rights of millions to carry out your delusional take on reality. May the courts fine you dearly and give you the thorough beating you deserve. Edit: Documentation for ryujinx seems to have also been harmed by Nintendo's reckless actions. Luckily, archive.org seems to have a recent cached copy of the most important pages: e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20240924023518/https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/wiki/Ryujinx-Setup-&-Configuration-Guide https://web.archive.org/web/20240924023518/https://github.co...
- espinielli 2y agoThe forks from the listed co-developers are still available...and some of them pretty recent
- whaleofatw2022 2y agoLinks? Would not mind forking or getting a copy
- squeaky-clean 2y agoI would bet serious money that this is because of the upcoming Switch 2. If the rumors are true, it could very much be like how the Dolphin emulator is able to run both Gamecube and Wii games because the system architectures are so similar. Nintendo wants to avoid a day-zero emulator for Switch 2.
- zamadatix 2y agoAnd even if it wasn't a day-zero (or even several month in) Switch 2 emulator it's seeming like one of the big selling points of the new system is going to be "play your old Switch games on the new system, now in higher resolution" but it's a lot of bad press if that's still "play them in worse quality than emulators were 3 years before this hardware came out".
- Dban1 2y agothat's good and bad news for Switch 2 emulation..
- Eastbound1248 2y agoAnyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub [1]. You can get recent commit hashes from the wayback machine [2], and there are still forks of Ryujinx that can be used for accessing deleted data [3]. [1] https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-a... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240929032104/https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx https://web.archive.org/web/20240929032104/https://github.co... [3] https://github.com/emmauss/Ryujinx https://github.com/emmauss/Ryujinx
- neonsunset 2y agoThis is absolutely terrible. It may be in the business interest of Nintendo but the absolute anti-consumer way this is carried out destroys all the good will that the customers still had towards them. It seems someone hosts a mirror: https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx/ https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx/ I was able to build the project with a single command, so there's hope that easy barrier for entry and a language more developers are familiar with will ensure the survival.
- jdright 2y agoNintendo must be getting ready to launch the next generation, which by targeting Switch emulators may signal that Switch 2 is not that far from it.
- ndesaulniers 2y agoModern Vintage Gamer (MVG) has a video out already about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9JZW7hDBK8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9JZW7hDBK8.
- tombert 2y agoI wonder how far this will go. Is Nintendo going to send a cease and desist for the MiSTer project? Probably not, pretty much all those cores would be for machines where patents have fully expired, but who the hell knows?
- m3kw9 2y agoThe emulator can play 99% of the games, talk about closing the barn doors after..
- 752963e64 2y ago[dead]
- ranger_danger 2y agohttps://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx/ https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx/ (5 minutes ago) https://github.com/ryujinx-mirror/ryujinx https://github.com/ryujinx-mirror/ryujinx (36 minutes ago) https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx (13 hours ago) https://git.tardis.systems/mirrors/Ryujinx https://git.tardis.systems/mirrors/Ryujinx (last week) https://codeberg.org/alexdh/Ryujinx https://codeberg.org/alexdh/Ryujinx (8 months ago)
- troad 2y ago> https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx/ https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx/ (5 minutes ago) > https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx (13 hours ago) Also https://github.com/IsaacMarovitz/Ryujinx https://github.com/IsaacMarovitz/Ryujinx. These three are identical repos as of now. ELI5 guide to diffing git repos: $ git clone <repo1_url> $ git remote add -f b <repo2_url> $ git diff master remotes/b/master No output indicates no diff. If you need to compare again at a later point, `git remote update` will update both repos.
- ambyra 2y agoDoes anybody know where they are mirrors for the source and builds?
- lauraorchid 2y agoObviously nintendo will do this because the switch is still an active product while emulator for older consoles like dolphin is still around because GameCube/Wii is discontinued.
- exitb 2y agoWhen they came for Yuzu it was because „the devs clearly had bootleg prerelease games” IIRC. Now it’s because „Switch is still an active product”. I wonder what it will be when they finally come for Dolphin.
- Woshiwuja 2y ago[dead]