They kind of have an unfortunate name for an emulator. It sounds like exactly what Nintendo is going to do to them.
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If it helps, in Tagalog it means "affection," so you could read it as a project that's showing affection to the Nintendo Switch (i.e. we love the console and games so much we want to preserve it indefinitely). Unfortunately, that love and affection isn't reciprocated.
I would've named it Yuza though, which is the Korean term for the same fruit Yuzu refers to. It's a one-letter change, so typos for the latter are likely to find the former.
Oh for fucks sake
I've actually spent about $2500+ on switch and games, haven't pirated a single game, I just play the old nes and snes roms via emulation.
I can say, due to Nintendo's behavior I will never buy another nintendo console or game. I might even start with this Suyu emulator now and moving forward.
No company should ever attack its community this much, and aggressively. They are making piles of cash, and this is just toxic.
If you've not encountered it yet, check out the steam deck.
To the novice, it's an excellent, simple to use, handheld console, with all their steam games as a bonus.
To the adventurous, a couple of clicks get you to a Linux desktop. You can install what you want (including emulators) and even plumb them back into the normal steam deck interface.
I'll probably buy their next console, but I'm not going to be buying nearly as many games as I otherwise would. Basically, if a game is available literally anywhere else, I'll buy it there instead.
Also, if my console dies, I'm not buying another and will instead emulate the games I've already purchased. That's just how I do things, I buy for the console while it's relevant, then emulate for nostalgia.
I haven't bought anything from Nintendo since the DS. I never believed their consoles to have the quality, performance or uniqueness to justify their prices. Exclusives is just a money-grabbing FOMO practice that I have never deemed justifiable either.
However, I never actively chose to stand off on purchasing their products until I heard about how they treated the Smash community and literally shut down their tournaments as well as how their fantastically buggy releases of certain Switch Pokemon games.
They have proven time and time again to not only not care about their consumers or community but to actively seek them out and piss in their mouth whenever they can.
Yeah, I absolutely disagree with their community interaction, but they're fantastic for what I want them for: fun, family friendly games. I have young kids, and their games are a lot of fun to play together.
If it weren't for my kids, I probably wouldn't buy one since I'm more than satisfied with Steam. But games like Mario Kart and Mario Party are just a ton of fun to play together. I honestly haven't found another studio as dedicated to making great games for the whole family to play together.
So that's why I buy Nintendo games and consoles. However, because I don't like their community interaction, I limit myself to only those games, whereas I'd probably but a ton more games from them if they weren't so hostile.
I understand your situation. If you do want to dodge Nintendo however you might be able to get a similar experience by emulating a Switch on a Steam Deck.
Don't support Nintendo. Don't buy the console
Nothing short of prolonged mass boycotting nintendo has any chance of changing their behavior and even then I bet nintendo would ride all the way into the ground blaming emulators and pirates for their decline.
Suyu has to be an ironic name right?
They should really self host their own codeberg instance
EDIT: looks like they do now! https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu
Why codeberg over forgejo or others?
Codeberg is the forgejo software i just forget how to spell forgejo and i like the name codeberg way more
Forgejo (pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/) is inspired by forĝejo, the Esperanto word for forge
As an Esperanto nerd, I love that this and Monero are from Esperanto. Now I want to use it more.
I want this trend of naming distributed stuff after Esperanto names to continue. :)
that DMCA link is quite the thing
edit: to preserve context, there was previously a DMCA link in the footer. You can see it in archive http://web.archive.org/web/20240322163857/https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu/
Lmaoo
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They need to move to a P2P model of hosting. Radicle is an open source P2P GitHub replacement. Ideally all open-source development would move to Radicle or a similarly P2P hosted model. If it were made easy enough I would set up an instance to help with hosting on my NAS. These corporations should have no right (or ability) to take down projects that the community has funded and built.
Not a fan of crypto-currencies generally but I would also set up recurring donations to any legit fork of Yuzu that will accept donation via Monero. Fuck these corporations.
I never heard of Radicle but it looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I love the idea of Radicle, but it looks like it doesn't support Windows natively, so it seems like a non-starter for now.
GitHub replacement
You mean a code forge? These have existed long before Git & Microsoft GitHub.
Looks like they're hosting their own repo now as a result;
I wouldn't want to be their host ... or ISP ... for when Nintendo comes a knocking.
Like they're not going to want to fight a lawsuit for this repo: they'll cut the service off instead.
I guess if it's hosted in a country not friendly to DMCA, etc. they may be able to get away with it. Still risky though.
Streisand effect intensifies!
Glad I downloaded Windows and Android before they got hit.
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