Nintendo Just Delivered Devastating News to Emulator Users
Nintendo just took down over 400 GitHub repositories for Nintendo Switch emulators after issuing a DCMA notice.
Nintendo just took down over 400 GitHub repositories for Nintendo Switch emulators after issuing a DCMA notice.
The short version
- Nintendo just took down over 400 GitHub repositories for Nintendo Switch emulators Nintendo seems dead set on snuffing out Switch emulation.
- As reported by TorrentFreak , Nintendo recently filed several DMCA notices against Switch emulator repositories on GitHub, resulting in the removal of over 400 Nintendo Switch emulator-related codebases from the site.
- Specifically, these DMCAs were targeted at the emulators Suyu, Skyline, and Yuzu.
What happened
In 2024, Nintendo settled with Tropic Haze , the company behind Yuzu, for $2.4 million . As part of the settlement, Tropic Haze was ordered to stop developing the emulator and remove its code from its official repository.
Why it matters
However, because the software was open-source, developers forked the code, which eventually evolved into a successor emulator, Suyu.
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