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Ryujinx has been taken down after an agreement between the developer gdkchan and Nintendo (gbatemp.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Someday we’ll learn that GitHub just isn’t the place for this kind of stuff…

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is a p2p one called https://radicle.xyz/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I agree with your second paragraph, but you do know there are plenty of good alternatives to Github right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And they change nothing? It still boils down to human beings being liable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

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.