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.
seems like there have been multiple contributors. so many clones of the repo…
Need to do something! As for YouTube and ad-blockers
they probably would have been fine if they weren’t shown as being used to play the leaked echos of wisdom…
Don’t think so, one day it would be shutdowned by Nintendo
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.
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.
Yah sure keep thinking that. Hasn’t happened for the other emulator taken down.
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
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
So an alternative will pop up right? At this point pirating nintendo games is a moral obligation
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.
It’s Nintendo practically daring people to do it.
And they will.
“What are you gonna do, stab me?”
- Quote from man stabbed
The agreement: You agree to take it down and we agree not to take your house and 30% of your salary until you die.
I’m not so sure. It’s possible Nintendo opted for a carrot rather than a stick in this case.
This doesn’t seem to have been started with a public C&D letter like usual. Yuzu (the previous Switch emulator that was taken down) incorporated some proprietary Nintendo information, which is why Nintendo had a legal lever against them. They don’t have one in this case, yet it still came down. Plus, everything seems to be have been going on very quiet behind the scenes.
If you were an emulator writer and Nintendo came and offered you life changing money in exchange for ending the project, would you take it? I would have a very hard time turning that down. Nintendo also doesn’t want a flood of yokels trying to start the project up again hoping to receive the same offer; most would fail, but one or two might take off. Better to let the threat be implied.
This is just speculation, of course, but something about the way this has unfolded feels a little different.
“Agreement” is quite a fucking twist on “threat.”
Sigh…
Just had to find about it here https://youtu.be/XrRlL7_coh0
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.
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
At least with radicle all the forks will still exist even if the authoritative copy is taken down. And even then I think because radicle is like BitTorrent, anybody who pinned the main repo would still be seeding it so it would be very hard to scrub it completely. The main challenge in using radicle is getting an active contributor with some reputation to maintain their copy on there. Otherwise there’s no momentum and nobody will pin the countless mirrors published by randos.
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.
Money Talks, Bullshit Walks.
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
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.
For anyone looking, someone Archive.org’d the final Win x64 compiled version:
Damn, I just got a mac and it has replaced my switch thanks to this brilliant software
