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.
Fuck off Nintendo.
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!
I hope the contributors are anonymous…
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
I think at least for Yuzu it would be better for devs to rebrand it to keep ninty back a bit.
Yuzu’s unprecedented success was it’s downfall.
Hopefully, it wasn’t the success of Yuzu but the fact it was being developed by an established company which was accepting over $30,000/mo in donations for “internal” builds.
It’s a lot easier to pressure a company that you know has a bunch of income, is firmly established in a country that recognises US copyright law, and makes a lot of money particularly on a legally contested technology.
They’ve gone after Dolphin before, but that’s still up and going. If Ryujinx or some other Yuzu rewrite (a soft fork would be v easy to take down imo) goes down then I’ll be proven wrong here
Where’d they get 2.3 million from?
Patreon?
Greed.
Wait I didn’t get it yet… Anyone theoretically know of another who knows another who may be able to send me a file related to or unrelated to the given subject?
So who is gonna create an anonymous account and fork the repo and website?
Citra has a core on retroarch, I am hoping that it will stay up
My already-installed copy of these softwares won’t go anywhere, Nintendo. Get bent.
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More people would purchase the games if they weren’t 60€ MSRP each regardless of size and quality.
I used to emulate switch games to test them as a free trial first, then I would buy them in second hand for half the price (which is still a lot, 30€ for a nintendo game versus 14€ for Nichijou volume)
And regardless of age! Their games never go on sale. And they don’t use local pricing (the actual term escapes me rn), so us poors in the 3rd world are stuck paying half a months salary for 7 year old games 🤪
Does someone has the last release files? pls tell me someone has it
This fiasco demonstrates why open source is the superior software model.
Running their mouths on Discord. Using Patreon to profit from (not) piracy (but everyone knows it is). Reckless display of hubris.
