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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

-- A wild Codeberg appeared. --

Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.

Website: Codeberg.org


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.

Wikipedia: Codeberg e.V.


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.

Conservancy: Give Up GitHub!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

This fiasco demonstrates why open source is the superior software model.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

So who is gonna create an anonymous account and fork the repo and website?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

My already-installed copy of these softwares won't go anywhere, Nintendo. Get bent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Running their mouths on Discord. Using Patreon to profit from (not) piracy (but everyone knows it is). Reckless display of hubris.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Citra has a core on retroarch, I am hoping that it will stay up

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Here's a fork of Citra that can connect to the official nintendo network, still avilable now, by the person who made CTGP7 (custom tracks and characters in MarioKart 7), and here's the one for Yuzu. I think these are gonna be the main forks because they already have quite a lot of activity. It's cool that Citra and Yuzu were open-source so things like this can be made!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hope the contributors are anonymous..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

If they were anon, they wouldn't have folded. But the ethical thing to do now is for them to create new anon accounts, fork the repo, and keep doing the good work

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I think at least for Yuzu it would be better for devs to rebrand it to keep ninty back a bit.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (1 children)

something something Streisand effect

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Yup, the work of Yuzu isnt lost at all. It's just going to take time to see how that work will be advanced -- will Ryujinx absorb the developers and their knowledge or will Yuzu continue?

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