Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.
How unsurprising, Ninty going full IP Godzilla again, even lashing out at some of the fanbase patronizing its games.
Yuzu? Wasn’t Yuzu already dead, and the main fork is Eden?
Eden moved their project from GitHub to something else, I think, because Nintendo already tried screwing with them.
Why the F we’re still hosting grey market on github I’ll never know.
Should just take all that shit over to RNSgit and host it on the dark side
I wasn’t familiar with this, and apparently neither was duckduckgo. Is this what you were referring to? https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html
It looks interesting, thanks for putting me on to it!
That is exactly it.
Reticulum is a decentralized, mostly anonymous, encrypted network.
rnsgit let’s you host git repos on it.
nomadnet let’s you make 1990’s style webpages on it.
There are proxies and vpns and messaging (LXMF) and telephony (LXST)
I’ve read a little about this tech, isn’t reticulum network way to small to transfer large programs? I thought it was restricted to small instances of text?
If you’re using a 200bps Lora radio, it’s bad, but there are sites serving multi-GB files over TCP. Network works over hops, if you’re more than a few hops from your target server you can try to find a closer backbone path. There’s also a lot of mirrors going on.
If people started using it in earnest, I’m sure we could come up with a DHT style solution
Only on the LoRA or other low bandwidth links. You can also traverse the network via normal Internet links.
Neat! Thanks!
For anyone who self hosts as opposed to using a provider, how do you manage the danger of all the zero days from the software that your are using? To me the biggest reason that I would use github is because they have a dedicated reaponae team for managing patches, whereas I might be on vacation when my server is getting hacked to shit
Don’t expose your stuff publicly and it’s pretty much a non-issue. There’s no reason your private git server needs to be accessible from the web. If you need to access it when you’re away from home, you can just connect back to your network with a VPN or SSH tunnel and then access your services like normal.
You put layers Like an onion
So you put cloudflare or tailscale or netbird or whatever infront of your thing. So you need at least two zero days for different products to be immediately fucked
Stop hosting this stuff on GitHub people!
The only reason like projects like that have a following and is doscovered is because they are on GitHub
Idk. I can’t speak for everyone, but I’ve never searched specifically on GitHub for a something. It’s always from a Google search first which doesn’t seem to have issues finding other platforms projects are on.
Highly doubt this. If you build something as interesting as this people will find it through means other than Github search. And as people pointed out elsewhere in this thread, lots of projects put their code on Github but only use it as a mirror. That gives you most of the benefits of being on there.
its very easy to use forgejo or radical to host your code. Fuck corpos piracy ftw
Nintendo is open season btw
Open season to steal their shit.
None of their games would be hard to fast-follow with AI. You’d lose the actual IP, but it would irritate the hell out of them
They are slow. I expected that to happen way faster. But yeah, pretty much what everyone knew would happen actually happened. I don’t get what it is with people hosting that stuff on GitHub. By now it’s safe to assume they know that it’s taken down.
That the community still uses Github for anything but a mirror?
And/or
Too bad I’m still using my copy of Yuzu that they “took down “ two years ago
FYI, Eden is a fork of yuzu that adds quite a lot of features and is fully compatible with yuzu saves/mods/configs.
My favorite new feature is loading updates and DLC from a folder instead of having to install them.
Coool I’ll have to check it out
My games were digital so I don’t know how I would be able to make my own rom for emulation and I’m not really interested in giving Nintendo more money
Any tool that can dump cartridges from a Switch or 3DS can also dump installed files. Cartridges are the exact same files under the exact same encryption as installed eShop games are. Anyone who actually wanted to emulate those systems while still being a good customer and paying for the games could very easily do so.
Switch 2’s piracy/backup “tool chain” is very limited and immature, and as of earlier this week is now only viable on a limited set of outdated firmwares and requires a lot of external shenanigans to get the initial entry point. It’s a lot less accessible, even though the process works for cartridges or installed files.
That said, every article like this that says “you must dump or provide your own ROM” is just saying “we aren’t going to provide links to the pirate site hosting the ROM”. The dumping process removes DRM from the files, so anything you could do with your dump can also be done with a copied version of someone else’s dump.
If they were stored on an SD card, wouldn’t it be easier to get the files for emulation?
…oh
Just pirate the games. You already paid for them, so morally it should be fine. And legally, downloading without uploading is safe everywhere on the planet.
There is such news article every few months and yet no relevant emulators are down.
I bet it’s a PR stunt but I have no idea who it could be aimed at.
The PR stunt is aimed at the news cycle that’s been gobbling up engagement-baited comments from absolutely everyone by showing off OOT Remake on PC (via emulators or the recomp). Seriously, it’s catnip for clickbait. You get all of the following Very Engaged:
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Nintendo fanboys (this is why nintendo is justified to do takedowns!)
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PC Master Race / Sony fanboys (lol nintendo got owned!)
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Anti-AI guys (all the current OOT stuff is vibe coded and that’s terrible)
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Pro-AI guys (all the current OOT stuff is vibe coded and that’s awesome)
All for the headline that implies you can play the shiniest new nostalgia bait Nintendo game on PC as easily and well as on the shiny new Nintendo console, which isn’t even the case the way it was the last time a Zelda emulation fiasco overtook the games news sphere.
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And even if they were, a new repository for it would pop up in a month tops.
Nintendo: Part time game company Full time law firm
