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Switch emulator Ryujinx shuts down development after “contact by Nintendo” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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At this point I'm very concerned about the open source industry relying so much on github. You have to remember that any project there can be swept away overnight because it doesn't fit into the agenca of a large company, for example.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This kind of thing often has the opposite of the intended effect. People then host mirrors of the original repo, and the press brings more developers to the project.

This sort of action by Nintendo and other companies is so short sighted. Bad press, a legal battle they couldn't actually win if it went to court, increased attention on the thing they're trying to hinder, etc. Its a stupid decision made by business people who don't know anything about tech, and who are disincentivized to care about the long term health of their brand.

I litterally had not heard of the emulator until now. Maybe I'll have to compile it and give it a spin now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bad press, a legal battle they couldn't actually win if it went to court

Those two seem like a stretch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is clearly bad press, everyone reading this gets negative thoughts about Nintendo. We are all talking about how bad they are RIGHT NOW.

Nintendo would absolutely lose that legal battle. It's well established that emulation is not a crime and nor is the development of emulators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You already had negative thoughts about nintendo...so does that count? Most people won't even see this...so I don't think it's much bad press.

As for legal battles...being sued is not really about committing crimes...you can lose legal battles while not doing anything illegal. I think Nintendo would likely win from simply pushing the devs into bankruptcy...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If it's enough negative thoughts pile up, they'll eventually breach a threshold where people avoid the company. I was looking forward to Metroid Prime 4, but I'm thinking of skipping it now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Maybe...I think this is not even noise for most people.

As much as I disagree with what their doing, Nintendo content is vastly superior to other consoles/handhelds...so I'm forced to stick with them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Emulation and emulators aren't illegal. Yuzu for example got in trouble mostly for distributing tools for circumventing copy protection and dumping roms and not for the emulator itself.

But it doesn't really matter as nobody has money to defend themselves against something like Nintendo. Here just even the threat of it was enough to get the Ryujinx devs to fold just in case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes. Nintendo doesn't need to ever win a lawsuit. If they simply bring it, they will win through having the deepest pockets.