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.
Infinite Money Glitch: fork Ryujinx and make a website. Nintendo will approach you and offer you money to take down the website and your git repos. Do as they request. Repeat as many times as necessary.
gdkchan? Who’s that person? My username is gdkchan2 but it’s purely a coincidence
Main hassle is to set up the disposable bank accounts in tax havens
Nintendo’s real intent is doubtless to try and ensure that nobody ever makes a functional emulator for the upcoming Switch 2.
Good fucking luck, the hardware will likely be a 2022 tablet if the switch is anything to go off of. Considering as well the console will likely have similar architecture, and switch emulators already exist, I’d give it about 3 months.
they probably would have been fine if they weren’t shown as being used to play the leaked echos of wisdom…
Goddammit!
Why won’t Nintendo just FUCK. OFF. with this crusade of theirs??!!
(And before anyone mentions it, yes, I’m aware as to why they don’t. The question was rhetorical.)
…Okay.
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So an alternative will pop up right? At this point pirating nintendo games is a moral obligation
It’s Nintendo practically daring people to do it.
And they will.
“What are you gonna do, stab me?”
- Quote from man stabbed
There are only so many programmers who are good enough to create an emulator, and a lot of them are already doing other projects. The Switch is also a very complicated system, and it needs a small team to pull it off.
Someday we’ll learn that GitHub just isn’t the place for this kind of stuff…
What is the alternative?
Closed source “I swear this executable that will let you play all the games you want is legit” hosted on sourceforge or random websites that get hugged to death every day that ends in a y?
Also: it isn’t like that would stop this kind of legal action. MS/Github are barely a factor. It is the devs themselves getting the “hey, stop it or we’ll turn you into indentured servants” letters.
GitFlic in Russia. Good luck telling them to get rid of something
It’s where Bypass paywall clean browser extension went after the DMCA bullshut
There is a p2p one called https://radicle.xyz/
I agree with your second paragraph, but you do know there are plenty of good alternatives to Github right?
And they change nothing? It still boils down to human beings being liable.
GitHub has nothing to do with this. All the information we have is that the dev himself took everything down after an agreement with Nintendo.
For anyone looking, someone Archive.org’d the final Win x64 compiled version:
In the meantime, anyone got a backup of the sourcecode & the binaries for win/linux?
When it was clear Yuzu was on its way out, I took out a backup and saved it in my personal server to share around with friends who asked, but Ryujinx disappeared without an announcement, so I didn’t get a chance to do that.
EDIT: Managed to find a backup of the source from just a few hours ago and save it to my own server. Guess I’ll have to compile it on my own if I want to share binaries with people who ask :P
What was the final build? I have 1.1.1402 on my PC.
I think you might have the latest. The flatpak version that is currently on my machine is 1.1.1397 – But the source I just grabbed and didn’t build is more recent.
EDIT: The flathub build is still up – For now. I pulled the latest update from there. It was 1.1.1403
“Agreement” is quite a fucking twist on “threat.”
seems like there have been multiple contributors. so many clones of the repo…
A federated github might solve this right?
Nope.
C&Ds and legal threats still go to a person who isn’t going to go to jail or have their wages garnished by Mario until the end of their days.
At best you have a single gitlab instance running in a country that is known to not cooperate with those kinds of demands. But… just ask the various torrent sites how well that works after actively pissing off an army of lawyers who don’t mind slipping a hosting company a couple hundred bucks to get the identity and address of the person paying for that.
No, but a gitea/forgejo instance as a hidden service might.
One of yuzu’s forks went that path: http://vub63vv26q6v27xzv2dtcd25xumubshogm67yrpaz2rculqxs7jlfqad.onion/torzu-emu/torzu
NOT publish releases
Well there goes that one for most people
They should just release torrents of the releases and that way even if there is a takedown the community keeps seeding.
People please try using https://radicle.xyz/ for hosting source code. I haven’t used it but the idea of it sounds pretty cool
The dev got bribed (or threatened) by Nintendo to manually delete the repo. GitHub this time didn’t do anything
Lol, why do you think payment is the more likely of the two options?
Why the hell would Nintendo pay them anything when a C&D is cheaper and just as effective.
As I understand it, cause of the country the creator is from, a C&D was unlikely to be enforceable. Money, on the other hand, is a universal language.
C&Ds are generally just threats to take someone to court. They aren’t themselves enforceable.
Even I can send C&Ds if I want but I don’t have anything to back them up with. Nintendo on the other hand absolutely does.
By “enforceable,” I meant, “the reasonable legal means to follow up”.
So you wouldn’t comply with Nintendo in a similar position?
I would, but I live in a country that cares about IP laws.
C&D in Brazil stands for Comedy & Despair, where you’re the one laughing at the company desperate to get you to do what they want without having any actual legal leverage
I this is the more probable version of events.
Until now the stance was “rofl in Brazil C&Ds are a waste of money”, so the bribe option makes sense.
Suppose that they calculate $1 million in legal costs in order to take the case to a court, then offering something like $200k to delete the repo is a big saving.
The dev of simple mobile apps sold millions of users to an ad company for just $30k which was almost pennies if we think how popular those apps were in the Foss community
Now, backups of the code are widely available, will the development continue without the main dev? Suyu (fork of yuzu) made almost no progress since the fork
C&Ds are essentially free though.
Someone will take his place and continue the work. Someone who is more robust and has a will to not cater to such dumb demands.
as of now, nobody took the place of yuzu devs, for example
suyu (the most famous yuzu fork) got just 50 commits in the last 6 months and are almost all of them are tiny changes to the readme where they only change the discord link or just memes
Yah sure keep thinking that. Hasn’t happened for the other emulator taken down.
It may happen once the Switch has reached its end-of-life. There would be less chance of N going after someone if their console is dead.
No, not impossible. I know they went after the melee community. But whoever picks up the torch would have less of a crosshair on their back at that point in time.
Yuzu was made with ill gotten software (switch SDK,)
RJ did not and Nintendo knew that
Man you’re so defeatist. Do you dare call yourself a pirate still with that kind of mentality? If so, please excuse yourself by not representing of being a part of the pirate community.
Because we don’t have time or patience for that shit. Things shut down all the time, but things also come back. People within rank will pick up what’s been left behind. The only people dumb enough to say the shit you’ve said, are simply just leechers. Leechers who take and take but give nothing back. You’re nothing.
“pirate community” lmfao
A retard. LMAO
If we keep using the current version and it never gets any updates, will it keep running the whole Switch game library.
Mostly, probably.
I would expect the legal teams to slow down once the switch becomes obsolete. (Like the SNES, GCN, etc.) At that point some other group will take up the mantle and patch whatever is broken.
… That’s my guess.
Fuck