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Ryujinx, a nintendo switch emulator, has been taken down by it's creator after being contacted by Nintendo.

Last posted Oct 12, 2024 at 11:41AM EDT. Added Oct 01, 2024 at 03:05PM EDT
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This is the announcement by a Ryujinx dev:

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.

These words are my own. I don't want to speak for anyone else here, so just remember that while reading.

Thank you to @everyone who has contributed code, documentation or issue reports to the project. Thank you all for following us throughout the development. I was able to learn a lot of really neat things about games that I love, enjoy them with renewed qualities and in unique circumstances, and I'm sure you all have experiences that are similarly special. I'm extending my own massive thanks to our moderation team, who have been here through some rough circumstances and always found ways to make light of it.

Godspeed, Ryujinx.

Last edited Oct 01, 2024 at 03:12PM EDT

Unfortunately DMCA 17 U.S.C. 1201 makes emulation of modern consoles effectively illegal. Bypassing copy protection, even for personal use, is illegal, and that is the only way to get commercial 3DS/Wii U/Switch games other than downloading them from torrent sites.

If you are making an emulator for a modern console, be very careful to not imply it can be used to emulate commercial games, and do not provide instructions for dumping your own games. Officially, you support homebrew and nothing else.

Either that, or do what VideoLan/VLC does with breaking DVD and Blu-ray encryption and base yourself in a country without a DMCA equivalent.

These words definitely do not sound like one's own words. It just feels like the copy-and-paste-on gunpoint message just like any the others.

Nintendo has done this again and again and again. Why isn't there larger riot already? Why is Nintendo allowed to be gotten away with it so many times?

Last edited Oct 02, 2024 at 07:38PM EDT

Evilthing wrote:

These words definitely do not sound like one's own words. It just feels like the copy-and-paste-on gunpoint message just like any the others.

Nintendo has done this again and again and again. Why isn't there larger riot already? Why is Nintendo allowed to be gotten away with it so many times?

Blame retards who leak games too early through Switch emulators

Some guy I know assumes Nintendo will pay the guy in return to shutting down the project since the guy lives in Brazil.
If Nintendo pays the guy in return, that means Nintendo actually did something good for once when it comes to removing emulators that everyone could see even in less clean image.

FatmanAss wrote:

Blame retards who leak games too early through Switch emulators

It's the leakers' fault, not the emulator maker's fault. Not only that, do you actually have numbers that show the financial damage of the leakers.

Evilthing wrote:

It's the leakers' fault, not the emulator maker's fault. Not only that, do you actually have numbers that show the financial damage of the leakers.

Total Leaker Death this time

Evilthing wrote:

These words definitely do not sound like one's own words. It just feels like the copy-and-paste-on gunpoint message just like any the others.

Nintendo has done this again and again and again. Why isn't there larger riot already? Why is Nintendo allowed to be gotten away with it so many times?

Because corporations run the world

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