Nintendo Shuts Down Ryujinx Switch Emulator (theverge.com) 7
Nintendo has convinced Ryujinx's lead developer to shut down the project. According to The Verge, the Switch emulator's download page is empty and its GitHub is gone. The Verge reports: "Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he's in control of," writes developer and moderator ripinperiperi on Discord. "While awaiting confirmation on whether he would take this agreement, the organization has been removed, so I think it's safe to say what the outcome is." The rest of ripinperiperi's message is a eulogy for the project, including a pair of videos showing the Ryujinx team's progress on iOS and Android ports of the Nintendo Switch emulator, among other core changes -- ones that will now presumably never ship.
Nintendo would not confirm or deny to The Verge that it made a deal with the developer. Instead, Nintendo spokesperson Eddie Garcia mysteriously pointed me to the Entertainment Software Association's head of public affairs Aubrey Quinn -- who said she couldn't speak on behalf of Nintendo.
Nintendo would not confirm or deny to The Verge that it made a deal with the developer. Instead, Nintendo spokesperson Eddie Garcia mysteriously pointed me to the Entertainment Software Association's head of public affairs Aubrey Quinn -- who said she couldn't speak on behalf of Nintendo.
Two people pointing at each other. (Score:2)
Both: He did it!
Rolling my eyes.
Gone... but not gone (Score:2)
There are multiple mirrors of the repo: https://github.com/search?q=Ry... [github.com]
Recent copy? (Score:2)
The most recent copy I've found so far is from early 2022:
https://archive.org/details/gi... [archive.org]
Reminder (Score:2)
Always clone or at least screenshot things you like, as a habit. Even things that aren’t very likely to disappear .. just so you have the habit of doing it. Make backup copies of Wikipedia and maybe wiki books.
Nintendo ninjas, they are everywhere! (Score:2)
Or at least Nintendo lawyers are everywhere.
Surprsingly Savvy (Score:2)
Huh. Well, that's unexpected.
Paying off a developer to stop working on an emulator is surprisingly savvy for Nintendo. Normally they go for force via the legal route - in other words, using the stick. This is the first time I can recall them using the carrot.
But it makes sense. Making an emulator, even of a current-gen console, isn't illegal. But as Nintendo is in the business of selling games, having them trivially pirated is a big problem. So spending a bit of cash to buy off the developers now is likely
Nintendo's backwards compatability (Score:2)
Given that Nintendo's kept backwards compatibility in many of its consoles, this may be a way for Nintendo to incorporate the emulator or parts of it into Nintendo's next generation console.
Nintendo's SDK may be in C, C++ and they could be looking to move to a more recent language for some or all of the SDK