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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.

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[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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!

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So someone forked the GitHub right?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Since there's now legal precedent, and GitHub already has the signatures of the project code, they will simply now close down any fork that matches the code signatures to avoid getting sued by Nintendo as well.

Hopefully someone forked it to a completely different self-hosted GitHub-like instance or the other GitHub alternatives.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The repository removal was voluntary and done by the Yuzu team. GitHub doesn't have to do anything and won't do anything. Even when they receive a DMCA takedown, they only block forks made through GitHub's "fork" button.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

There's no legal precedent, it was settled out of court

[–] Snazzy@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yuzu’s unprecedented success was it’s downfall.

[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 1 points 6 months ago

Their decision to profit off the project was their downfall.

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