A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit.
Hopefully their works will live in the saved repos just as ReVanced was able to live on after YouTube shut the original project down.
So someone forked the GitHub right?
RIGHT‽
Yuzu’s unprecedented success was it’s downfall.
Hopefully, it wasn’t the success of Yuzu but the fact it was being developed by an established company which was accepting over $30,000/mo in donations for “internal” builds.
It’s a lot easier to pressure a company that you know has a bunch of income, is firmly established in a country that recognises US copyright law, and makes a lot of money particularly on a legally contested technology.
They’ve gone after Dolphin before, but that’s still up and going. If Ryujinx or some other Yuzu rewrite (a soft fork would be v easy to take down imo) goes down then I’ll be proven wrong here
Where’d they get 2.3 million from?
Patreon?
Likely not even close to that amount.
Greed.
Citra has a core on retroarch, I am hoping that it will stay up
My already-installed copy of these softwares won’t go anywhere, Nintendo. Get bent.
Wait I didn’t get it yet… Anyone theoretically know of another who knows another who may be able to send me a file related to or unrelated to the given subject?
Monetising always leads to this. Maybe learn to keep it more lowkey?
This fiasco demonstrates why open source is the superior software model.
More people would purchase the games if they weren’t 60€ MSRP each regardless of size and quality.
I used to emulate switch games to test them as a free trial first, then I would buy them in second hand for half the price (which is still a lot, 30€ for a nintendo game versus 14€ for Nichijou volume)
And regardless of age! Their games never go on sale. And they don’t use local pricing (the actual term escapes me rn), so us poors in the 3rd world are stuck paying half a months salary for 7 year old games 🤪
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The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members’ concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
In June 2022 the Software Freedom Conservancy’s “Give Up Github” campaign (in response to the GitHub Copilot licensing controversy) promoted Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub.
Running their mouths on Discord. Using Patreon to profit from (not) piracy (but everyone knows it is). Reckless display of hubris.
