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Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by PerfectDark@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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GitHub link to Nintendo's claim - all the details you need are here

The emulator forks which are being taken down are as follows:

Despite this, the one fork that continues, and will continue without takedown is Ryubing - by Greemdev. This is created by an original member of the Ryujinx team. It's safe, the code is beyond reproach (and violates zero laws or Nintendo code) and actually brings helpful updates.

Still...shitty news. And more indication that the Switch 2's architecture will be damn similar to that of this current Switch. Them taking emulators down means the upcoming games have a solid chance of being emulatable on release. But...that's my own (and others') conjecture, so we'll see when the time comes.

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[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 months ago

Why are they hosting their code on Github? Switch to Codeberg or maybe self host. And yes I know Github has the most users but they're dealing with something radioactive.

[-] RiQuY@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Codeberg can suffer from the same DMCA requests but at least is not managed by Microsoft. To really avoid(or ignore) DMCAs you need to self-host/use a vps for your own version control tool like Forgejo/GitLab or use a decentralized one like Radicle.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 37 points 2 months ago

Just a reminder don't have emulators on GitHub. They work with big companies to make sure they are taken down. Forks do nothing to help since it's easy for them to find now.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just a reminder don't have emulators on GitHub.

I don't like GitHub, but this is simply untrue. We host the PCSX2 project on GitHub, and GitHub even donated some amount at one point to the project. The following major, top-of-class video game console emulators (non-exhaustive) are officially hosted on GitHub:

PlayStation:

Xbox:

xemu (Xbox)
xenia (Xbox 360) (previous Wikipedia article deleted)

Nintendo:

Mesen (NES etc.)
bsnes-hd (SNES)
Gopher64 (N64; recently started as a successor to simple64)
Dolphin (GC/Wii) (Wikipedia article)
Cemu (Wii U) (Wikipedia article)
SameBoy (GB/GBC)
mGBA (GBA)
melonDS (NDS)

Sega:

Genesis Plus GX (libretro core for multiple)
Flycast (Dreamcast)

Atari:

Stella (Atari 2600) (Wikipedia article)
Atari800 (Atari 8-bit/Atari 5200)
A7800 (Atari 7800)

Misc:

Keep in mind that I've only chosen what I believe is the top one or one of the top ones from major consoles. If I could pick multiple per console, this list would be a mile long.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We are literally in a thread about a takedown in GH. But if you go to other sites, they have the repo up.

Suyu, Nuzu, Uzuy, Torzu, and Sudachi have all been taken down. Youtube-dl got taken down until public outcry. The number of takedowns since 2022 have only increased over the years. 2024 being the highest amount.

I'm glad the repos above are not yet being taken down, I truly am. But GitHub is just Microsoft at the end of the day.

We are also on platforms (Lemmy/piefed) that have chosen codeberg over GitHub for their main git hosting.

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz -5 points 2 months ago

Probably just a case of the corporate lawyers haven't noticed those ones yet.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bruh what? 💀 I chose the highest-profile and arguably best emulators for each major system, let alone that almost every other modern one uses GitHub too. If all of these emulators are flying under the corporate radar, I will deliberately inject myself with rabies and die a slow, agonizing death. I couldn't come up with this shit if I got cross-faded on meth and fentanyl.

Legitimately shocked that this abject fucking nonsense got three upvotes. Want to know how I know Sony knows PCSX2 exists? Two former PCSX2 developers are working on "ports" (read: shitty, subpar emulation) of PS2 games to the PS5. They got their jobs because of their work on PCSX2.

Edit: I'm going to go off a bit more, actually, because I'm sick of living in an era where zero-information dipshits can just say any unresearched, unsubstantiated bullshit online and put it into immediate contention with obvious, demonstrable facts presented with sourcing by a subject matter expert:

I've included a Wikipedia article where applicable; these articles will often have links to these emulators being discussed in popular gaming outlets.
This doesn't even count emulators like Snes9x, PCSX-Reloaded, and Project64 which are no longer top-of-class but which have their own Wikipedia articles, were wildly popular in their day, and host their code on GitHub.

[-] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Simply untrue.

These are known, and you'd better believe Nintendo knows everything there is to know about each and every emulator that exists. They tried pressuring the team behind Cemu years ago, but it ended up being pointless.

Some of these are years and years and years old.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 2 months ago

Self host, codeberg, make mirrors everywhere

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I can't wait for federation with codeberg/forgeo. PRs from different instances sound great. Git is already set up. It will hopefully be a game changer.