Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub

Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by rcarmo on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @02:47PM (#41712555)

Wow. When yuzu was taken down I wrote a script to automatically download the 5 latest releases of a few other emulators I use, and that included Ryujinx (so I do have the binaries for those, which will go into safekeeping).

Now I wish I had set up a Gitea mirror as well, even though I would likely never build it myself.

Edit: here's the script - https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/89afd64747fc909e80b29abc902c8...

It is designed to be very low impact (I had it on a daily cron).

Feel free to use it to ensure you can preserve the software you rely on. As far as I'm concerned, I'm _very_ sad that Nintendo has now made it impossible to enjoy my games on better hardware, and will probably focus on PC gaming henceforth (there are lots of nice indie games on Steam, like Dredge, which is my current favorite).

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by rererereferred on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:02PM (#41712755)

Do forks go away together with the original repository when it's removed from Github?

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by textadventure on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:18PM (#41712967)

In this case it seems so, someone just uploaded the codebase again (archived): https://github.com/emmauss/Ryujinx

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by mikae1 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:46PM (#41713951)

Codebase, but no releases...

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by freeCandy on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @12:50AM (#41717296)

They used to handle releases through github actions, so it should be fairly straightforward to set that up

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by loufe on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:55PM (#41714047)

5 years out of date though, it would seem.

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by freeCandy on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @12:53AM (#41717315)

Here's a more up to date one: https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by bityard on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:12PM (#41712903)

Edit: I guess I'm wrong, see reply

If a repository is removed by Github in response to a DMCA request, yes.

(But it's not clear that that's what happened here.)

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by tjhorner on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:26PM (#41713079)

The forks aren't actually automatically taken down in most cases. The claimant must list every individual fork in the claim. Which I love, because it's kind of petty but still following the DMCA to the letter.

Here is an example[1] of the form claimants must fill out.

> Each fork is a distinct repository and must be identified separately if you believe it is infringing and wish to have it taken down

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/05/2024-05-3...

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by 0xcde4c3db on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @05:28PM (#41714384)

IIRC it took them a couple months to get through all of the Yuzu forks after the initial DMCA and lawsuit. I doubt there were nearly as many forks of Ryujinx, though.

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by ZeWaka on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:13PM (#41712912)

Depends on which type of removal they do, but they can be yes.

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by Macha on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:03PM (#41712779)

I actually do have a private gitea mirror setup after the yuzu takedown.

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by Rexxar on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @08:39PM (#41716032)

There is a backup from 15/09 on https://archive.softwareheritage.org/

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by masactivator on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:11AM (#41721444)

Here's Ryujinx new website, final releases archived and latest builds available for download - https://ryujinx-emulator.com

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