Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator, which the Zelda maker previously described as enabling “piracy at a colossal scale.”

WTF - Rest in peace… I hope no one has to pay any legal fees. Wish you all the best!

  • verdigris@lemmy.mlEnglish
    862·
    6 months ago

    Stop using GitHub. Especially if you’re working on anything that corpo interests will frown on, but just generally, there are plenty of alternatives (both git and non-git) that aren’t owned by Microsoft.

    • p3e7@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      33·
      6 months ago

      Well it’s probably cheaper than to innovate on the hardware front (display, performance, Joy-Cons, etc.) . And since they have an insane amount of money, it think they can keep doing this for quite some time…

        • GiveMemes@jlai.luEnglish
          141·
          6 months ago

          I mean it’s easy to shit on the switch now that it’s a 7 year old console, and don’t get me wrong the joycon drift is fuckin ridiculous, but the switch was kinda impressive when it came out.

              • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                The one thing that impresses me about consoles though: How tf do they manage to run even graphics-intensive games on such low-end hardware? I mean sure, frame rates aren’t great, but the fact that these games still run and are somehow playable amazes me.

                • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
                  4·
                  6 months ago

                  I think it’s because they’re targeting a very small number of devices as opposed to the infinite number of possible combinations of hardware a computer could have.

          • piccolo@ani.socialEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            The switch isn’t impressive. It used old hardware Nvidia had a bulk of their failed shield project, and they stuck it in a tablet. There were no reasons nintendo couldn’t produce something equivalent to the steam deck in 2017 with their infinite money. But that’s not what Nintendo do. They always opt for the cheapest way to sell new hardware because they know their fans will buy anything from them no matter how shit it is.

            • GiveMemes@jlai.luEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Ahh yess they could easily have produced something equivalent to a product introduced 5 years later. It was literally the most powerful handheld of all time when it came out and had almost double the graphics processing power of the Xbox 360 and ps3 with the dock, and still more than either without it. Could it compete with the ps4 and Xbox One? Absolutely not. Precisely because of the form factor. To think otherwise is hilarious. I do think their addition of all the random bullshit nobody uses that drives up price was dumb.

              Also, every time Nintendo makes a cutting edge box-console to directly compete with Microsoft and Sony they just lose sales, so why even try?

              • piccolo@ani.socialEnglish
                2·
                6 months ago

                Most powerful only because their only competition was the ps vita which was already quite old. And the steam deck isn’t revolutionary. It’s just laptop hardware in a handheld format. Noone said it needs to match the ps4 or xbone because that would require lugging a massive cooling system. Its just sad the switch barely handles 60fps in docked mode…

          • Sethayy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            53·
            6 months ago

            It was underpowered when it came out and didn’t introduce anything their other consoles didnt already have (nor have I ever seen someone use half the features).

            What’s really impressive is the devs making games for it, showing off how much the mobile gaming market is holding us back by making Candy Crush Soda Ultra Supermax

            • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
              11·
              6 months ago

              and didn’t introduce anything their other consoles didnt already have (nor have I ever seen someone use half the features).

              I don’t remember undocking my PS4 to play it on the go.

              • Sethayy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                31·
                6 months ago

                But you may have with your Gameboy, gameboy advanced, Ds, dsi, dsiXL, 2ds, 3ds, wiiu, PSP, or PSP vita.

                And if you consider a portable HDMI output important, laptops and phones could do this probably half a decade before the switch came out

                • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
                  21·
                  6 months ago

                  You can’t compare Wii U because it has to be super close to the console and not all games could be played on the game pad. Unless the Vita had HDMI output then this was definitely a new feature of game consoles. Maybe you can compare NetBooks to the Switch if you’re being generous but laptops and phones are a totally different form factor.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago

      It is almost a zero cost. They already have the legal-ish ruling. It is just filling out a form letter and sending it out.

        • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
          10·
          6 months ago

          You don’t need a lawyer to file a DMCA request. You just need to be ready to get one if someone disputes it.

          And Nintendo almost definitely have lawyers on retainer, if not in house. The added cost of this is the effort it takes to search github for “uzu” and send an email.

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            9·
            6 months ago

            There are law firms that work on contract specifically to do this work. And it’s not like the senior partner is doing it repo by repo, it’s a junior paralegal searching GitHub for “yuzu.cpp” or whatever and filing one big takedown request for all the results.

            • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              If there hadn’t already been a court ruling-ish (it is complicated) giving Nintendo the “right” to do this? Sure

              As it stands? It very well could be an intern filling out a word document

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    30·
    6 months ago

    I hope this doesn’t spread out towards other emulators just as a matter of “principle” (by Nintendo’s definition)

      • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Yeah I’ve been playing Pokemon Sacred Gold on my phone, really gives me GBC pipes with the size and everything it’s like childhood all over.

        I have the emulator and the games on my pc and my phone though so fuck Nintendo.

        I’m playing a 15 year old game someone improved upon that I already owned on hardware I can’t buy anymore.

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      If Nintendo stays consistent, they went after Yuzu because they were accepting donations. They went after ROM sites that had advertising. They left everyone else alone if they aren’t making money off their games. Right now Ryujinx has a Patreon page…

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Is there a p2p based equivalent?

    I don’t even know how would that work, but seems something that would fit here.

    • Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      I mean, the alternative is Ryujinx, which Nintendo has for some reason ignored for now.

      (Ryujinx’s devs are much more cautious about things like banning any references to piracy in their discord and avoiding anything that could look like getting money in exchange for access, both of which may have given them less legal exposure.)

  • Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    As the article mentions, they’re releasing the Switch successor soon. I suspect the real reason for this push is to try and scare people off from developing an emulator for that one, at least during the lifetime of the console - it’s a bit late to try and kill Switch emulation given that nearly fully-functional emulators already exist.