I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fuck Nintendo.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Open source is hard to kill off forever. Someone, somewhere is gonna have the repo.
Getting it off GitHub is usually enough to effectively kill it.
Naa most projects are still fine off github. Theres a couple of emus that are now officially off gh and they are still being worked on.
Self-hosted gits in a country that doesn't care are becoming popular.
What makes you say that? Probably 95% of FOSS projects I see are still hosted on GH.
I should clarify, self hosted Gits for projects that may fall under targeted harassment by corporations (Eaglercraft, Switch Emulators, etc...) are becoming popular.
Ryujinx, operating out of Brazil, couldn't be taken to court by Nintendo. So a lot of projects that could have Nintendo's eye of sauron on them are looking for a safe country and self hosting as guaranteed insurance from a Yuzu situation.
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I personally got ahold of the final version of the source code to Ryujinx after it was pulled from GitHub and put it on archive.org and I'm literally a random nobody who had nothing to do with the project so you are very incorrect. It was almost immediately picked up by other developers and is still seeing development to this day
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They'll need to proactively clone it to a non-github repos before its shutdown.
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I never thought to emulate the switch until they killed the first emulator. Now I download the latest emu and roms nearly every month. Fuck Nintendo.
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And it will still not improve the sales of the Switch 2.
I mean, wasn't switch 2 the fastest selling console of all time?
I mean, wasn’t switch 2 the fastest selling console of all time?
No, the fastest selling NINTENDO console (IIRC)
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Meh, emulate it and get better frame rates and higher resolution.
Why would I buy a console that plays the game at an inferior state?
Nintendo is free at any time to release their games on Steam or even their own PC storefront and if I could play it with my hardware then I'd buy most games at full price.
Until then, nah I'm good.
Agree, as long as we are forced to bullshit, I'll just keep my hands dirty.
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Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damages because they knew they wouldn't be able to win in court.
All of these forks have since removed the key and require the user to supply it (legally from your own console).
So in theory they should be protected under US law since emulation and reverse engineering is completely legal.
However
Nintendo also has infinite money to throw at the problem, and FOSS devs are usually not willing to deal with insane amount of personal liability because of a hobby, which is how they killed Ryujinx.
So you better hold onto your guts if you plan to fight Nintendo.
Or move to i2p so they can't disable you lol.
pokemon cards alone accounts for billions in profit/revenue. they have plenty of money.
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Eden's primary git repo is self-hosted. This doesn't affect them at all.
Nintendo's lawyers have reach beyond github. They only need to chat with your hosting company or nameserver.
There are hosts and nameservers located in countries that don't give a fuck about companies like Nintendo.
In fact, the recent backlash about everything being hosted in the US has started to make this even easier as companies in other countries are stepping in to grab market share as companies look to flee US hosting.
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Sure, but since the project itself is not illegal, they could just keep mirroring it and even throw it up on a .onion site or an I2P eepsite.
Do yo know which is the official website and repository? When I search different results popup and I don't know which is original.
I mean Nintendo could always lower games prices, add the features you get from emulators, and make the experience vastly superior on the console, then these emulators would be far less relevant.
No, I'm sure they will just keep killing better options and charging their consumers as much as humanly possible without having to innovate their products.
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It's a meaningless battle.
Funny, here I am still using Yuzu
Still seeding it. Build: 4176
Stats:
Size: 936,5 MB
Upload: 37,6 GB
~~Rario~~ Ratio: 41,117
:)
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It's crazy to watch a company burn a lifetime of good will in just a few years of chasing copyright litigation.
They're selling $80 games with no problems so it seems to be working out for them.
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Sony v. connectix and Sony v. bleem both established that emulation is legal. Nintendo can fuck off.
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This won't fix your slumping sales Nintendo
Fuck Nintendo. Don't buy their shit.
I was considering a Switch 2 but now... not so much.
Just wait until an emulator for switch 2. Then don't buy it.
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