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Switch Emulation Support - Will Be Removed (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by lazorne@lemmy.zip to c/retrodeck@lemmy.zip

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After waiting a full year before introducing any support for Switch emulators, in order to determine whether such projects would continue to exist, we made the decision to add limited support for Ryubing in 0.10.0b. In light of recent developments, it has become clear that this was not the right course of action.

Switch emulation has consistently been the source of the most issues within the project, generating the highest volume of warnings, bans, toxicity, and support tickets.

We would also like to note that the DMCA status of these emulators creates a level of legal exposure and implied responsibility that we are neither willing nor able to assume. RetroDECK is a volunteer-driven project, and we will not place the team or the broader community at risk by maintaining features that could subject us to takedowns, legal threats, or compliance burdens beyond our scope.

Accordingly, in an upcoming minor update, all Switch emulation support will be permanently removed from RetroDECK forever.

Furthermore, discussion of Switch emulation will no longer be permitted on any of our social platforms effective immediately, and our community rules will be updated to reflect this change.

Users who still wish to use Switch emulation will need to configure and integrate it manually on their own, or move it from an old install as a user-made component mod without any support. Please note that your existing games and save data will not be touched or removed. However, you will no longer be able to launch or play them within RetroDECK natively.

This is final!

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[–] shads@lemy.lol 1 points 13 hours ago

From the outset I want to state I understand and support your decision, open source projects and communities have to mitigate the threat that Nintendo represents to them. I really wish gaming as a community would recognise the same.

If we as a community would just spend a few years ignoring them and not purchasing their crap, I'm sure their aggresive lawfare would diminish rapidly.

It's never going to happen unfortunately.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

discussion of Switch emulation will no longer be permitted on any of our social platforms effective immediately

Can we discuss how Nintendo sucks donkeyballs? Just a general question, not tied to emulating a specific system.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

This is final!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER