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According to an official statement on Ryujinx's Discord server, developer gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and they were offered an agreement to stop working on the emulator project, and while the agreement wasn't confirmed yet, the organization has been entirely removed.

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

If we keep using the current version and it never gets any updates, will it keep running the whole Switch game library.

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

People please try using https://radicle.xyz/ for hosting source code. I haven't used it but the idea of it sounds pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The dev got bribed (or threatened) by Nintendo to manually delete the repo. GitHub this time didn't do anything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

At least with radicle all the forks will still exist even if the authoritative copy is taken down. And even then I think because radicle is like BitTorrent, anybody who pinned the main repo would still be seeding it so it would be very hard to scrub it completely. The main challenge in using radicle is getting an active contributor with some reputation to maintain their copy on there. Otherwise there's no momentum and nobody will pin the countless mirrors published by randos.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Lol, why do you think payment is the more likely of the two options?

Why the hell would Nintendo pay them anything when a C&D is cheaper and just as effective.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

As I understand it, cause of the country the creator is from, a C&D was unlikely to be enforceable. Money, on the other hand, is a universal language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think this is the more probable version of events.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

For anyone looking, someone Archive.org'd the final Win x64 compiled version:

https://archive.org/download/ryujinx-1.1.1403-win_x64

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

Damn, I just got a mac and it has replaced my switch thanks to this brilliant software

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

In the meantime, anyone got a backup of the sourcecode & the binaries for win/linux?

When it was clear Yuzu was on its way out, I took out a backup and saved it in my personal server to share around with friends who asked, but Ryujinx disappeared without an announcement, so I didn't get a chance to do that.

EDIT: Managed to find a backup of the source from just a few hours ago and save it to my own server. Guess I'll have to compile it on my own if I want to share binaries with people who ask :P

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What was the final build? I have 1.1.1402 on my PC.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think you might have the latest. The flatpak version that is currently on my machine is 1.1.1397 -- But the source I just grabbed and didn't build is more recent.

EDIT: The flathub build is still up -- For now. I pulled the latest update from there. It was 1.1.1403

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A federated github might solve this right?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No, but a gitea/forgejo instance as a hidden service might.

One of yuzu's forks went that path: http://vub63vv26q6v27xzv2dtcd25xumubshogm67yrpaz2rculqxs7jlfqad.onion/torzu-emu/torzu

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope.

C&Ds and legal threats still go to a person who isn't going to go to jail or have their wages garnished by Mario until the end of their days.

At best you have a single gitlab instance running in a country that is known to not cooperate with those kinds of demands. But... just ask the various torrent sites how well that works after actively pissing off an army of lawyers who don't mind slipping a hosting company a couple hundred bucks to get the identity and address of the person paying for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hosting a git instance with Njala?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

C&Ds and legal threats still go to a person who isn’t going to go to jail or have their wages garnished by Mario until the end of their days.

At best you have a single gitlab instance running in a country that is known to not cooperate with those kinds of demands. But… just ask the various torrent sites how well that works after actively pissing off an army of lawyers who don’t mind slipping a hosting company a couple hundred bucks to get the identity and address of the person paying for that.

Plenty of hosts and providers over the years have claimed to be super privacy oriented and blah blah blah. Once they get a legal request, they roll over. Because they aren't going to prison for the customer anymore than they are going to prison for you.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Someday we’ll learn that GitHub just isn’t the place for this kind of stuff…

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What is the alternative?

Closed source "I swear this executable that will let you play all the games you want is legit" hosted on sourceforge or random websites that get hugged to death every day that ends in a y?

Also: it isn't like that would stop this kind of legal action. MS/Github are barely a factor. It is the devs themselves getting the "hey, stop it or we'll turn you into indentured servants" letters.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is a p2p one called https://radicle.xyz/

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