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Nintendo now owns the Ryujinx.org domain
- Thread starter Gaiff
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analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Nintendo owns ryujinx.org, not Ryujinx.
Ryujinx is open source and Nintendo has no control over the many forks that are now being worked on after the main distribution was halted.
Ryujinx is open source and Nintendo has no control over the many forks that are now being worked on after the main distribution was halted.
Topher
Identifies as young
Why can't Nintendo shut down all those forks like they did with Yuzu?
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Emulation isn't illegal, they were able to shut down Yuzu because the retards behind it were asking for money.
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Topher
Identifies as young
I'm talking about the thousands of forks on Github Nintendo had taken down. That was just source code, not companies asking for money.
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Nintendo DMCA takedown wipes over 8,500 Yuzu emulator copies
Nintendo is back at it again.
www.theverge.com
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
The main devs of Yuzu were providing illegal keys to pirate roms before their release date. TOTK was playable on PC before its official launch on Switch. They were also bragging about all the money they were making. The main branch got shot down, but there are still active forks.
SidViscous
Member
In theory they can't come after you if you can prove the software was developed in a clean room, but the thing both switch emulators teams don't talk about is how they basically used the original SDK to reverse engineer a lot of the internal firmware, and one of the two even contained code stolen in one of the leaks, which is when Nintendo smelt the blood form my understanding.
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Astray
Member
How active are they really?
We have not really heard of any meaningful progress since Nintendo managed to lock out the original dev team from working on the code.
Pejo
Gold Member
Also MS retains the right to take down whatever they want on the platform. Call it a favor to Nintendo or some sort of back room deal, but I'm sure the platform itself had a part in the massive takedown for Yuzu.
Topher
Identifies as young
See that link I posted. Looks like they were all taken down. I don't see any forks on github.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Emulation may be legal, but if Nintendo somehow obtained ownership of the source from the people who created Ryujinx they can close the source and can shut down forks via DMCA. The only reliable way to preserve it is to have downloaded a copy locally. Just because something is open source doesn't mean that nobody owns it.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
Not on Github. The owners of the site likely didn’t wanna deal with the legal fallout so they took everything down. There are still other repositories out there, but they’re not very active and headed by tiny teams and not much progress has been made.
alphachino
Member
Never liked the name anyway. Have at it Nintendo.
Astray
Member
A simple DMCA takedown request, unless contested by the github user (which requires posting personal info), is something that Microsoft is compelled to oblige by law.
I am not a fan of Microsoft, but their hands are tied there.
It depends on the license they provided it under. It was an MIT licence I think so they can't shut down forks with a DMCA as far as I know unless that original copy of the MIT licence was altered by the fork.
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digital_ghost
Member
Nintendo: Jinx you owe me a soda
namenotfound
Member
Rooting for anyone to move forward with Ryujinx. I never got around to beating Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and getting back into it since with emulators you can use 21:9 mods. Mods to get rid of chromatic aberration. Render at a higher resolution. I don't even play on my desktop. Stream it to a large display phone from my desktop. Looks great. And I do own my games. I have like 60 Switch games purchased
bender
What time is it?
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Next week on GitHub: Kenjinx
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ReyBrujo
Member
They don't own the code (which they did with Yuzu), so it is trickier for them to take down Ryujinx. They could, in theory, go for trademark infringement if they now own the "Ryujinx" name until they are able to make a legal case against one of the forks.
Polygonal_Sprite
Gold Member
Compared to Sony and Microsoft all Nintendo have is their IP. I expect them to continue this recent rampage in an effort to protect it.
vaibhavpisal
Member
Should’ve done this long time ago. When Switch was getting old and incapable of competing with emulated games.
Now they are just pissing off hackers who will come back with a vengeance for Switch 2.
Now they are just pissing off hackers who will come back with a vengeance for Switch 2.
Shifty1897
Member
This is Nintendo lawyers we're talking about. This deal was probably the only way they could see another sunrise that wasn't through a barred cell window.
Kataploom
Gold Member
I don't think they have anything of value for their own developments, they literally have experts on emulation and specifics about their own systems more than anyone else... They just saw that it was faster, cheaper or even just feasible to buy the emulator rights in order to get it out of their way
Pretty standard practice, if ms or sony were dealing with a contemporary console emulator they'd likely do something similar, especially sony since they already have
ZVWQP-9B8TM-VH9CT
Member
Why aren't these emulators hosted and developed on torrent sites like Fitgirl etc? This way they won't earn DMCAs.
btw emulators are legal, but the devs avoid all the hassle with the false lawsuits by hosting them on sites with cracked games.
btw emulators are legal, but the devs avoid all the hassle with the false lawsuits by hosting them on sites with cracked games.
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RoboFu
One of the green rats
emulators are legal.,but the bios and OS used are not free or legal to use in those emulators. the older consoles dont have an OS just the bios. but newer-ish console do and the latest console all have EULA that say you cannot legal use the system os on anything other than a real system. Some people write their own bios for older systems and that is why clone systems of old consoles are okay but a switch emulator running the switch OS is not.
kiphalfton
Member
Damn, so this is what a major video game company can buy, by primarily selling remasters for the past 7 year.
Get good Sony and Microsoft.
Get good Sony and Microsoft.
nkarafo
Member
Sites like Fitgirl are specifically for downloading pirated repacks.
Emulation is already getting too much unfair treatment by all the corporate apologists out there, being hosted in such sites isn't going to make their case any better.
coffinbirth
Member
No, Ryujinx was published as unlicensed code into the public domain for this very reason, and not a GPL.
You cannot DMCA public domain...which is why alllll of the Ryujinx forks are still on Gihub with the hard/main fork still getting nightlies. They will eventually have to change the name though.
This is also why Nintendo PAID this man, as opposed to the Yuzu situation.
Nintendo bought a little time, nothing more.
Needlecrash
Member
This tracks. The owner of Ryujinx was "contacted" by Nintendo; as opposed as a DMCA takedown. HUH.
coffinbirth
Member
Fitgirl has been repacking Switch games with preconfigured Yuzu and Ryujinx builds as standalone launchers for quite awhile now, including leaks before official release dates. I wholly agree with you, but it's already a thing.