Microsoft, the safe home of open source /s

I didn’t think emulators were copyright infringement since they’re built from scratch. Why isn’t GitHub telling them to get fucked?

Nintendo doesn't seem to care about all other emulators of their previous consoles nearly as much, hopefully it stays that way

Maybe we could build a distributed Github you can't just delete with something decentralized and versioning, like Hypercore protocol or IPLD (InterPlanetary Linked Data), Ceramic Network?

About legality: that's (japanese) Nintendo using US media laws gone rogue to swipe repos on a US hoster (Github). Maybe don't use a US hoster next time.
And yeah, Europe isn't much better there.

I know Nintendo=bad, but also, if their only leg to stand on is "these are distributing our keys" then just don't include the keys. Plenty of others don't.

I feel like all these repos knew their days were numbered because of that that, but they probably didn't care. It's easier to get everyone from one place than to look around online for the keys separately. May as well include the keys until Nintendo does something about it.

If emulators are not illegal, why Microsoft take them down? This should be illegal, the same way information was censored in COVID times.

I hate big tech.

I dream of a Nintendo where the artists are free from their work being used as a legal bludgeon against people who enjoy their work. You can't tell me the people behind tears of the kingdom were happy that their game was basically unable to be run on launch, and having to work within the constraints of a chip from 2018.

Eden emu hosts its own git instance. If you have a server and live in a country where section 1201 of the DMCA does not apply you could do the same.

L move still using github tbh

I won't buy anything Nintendo ever again because they started attacking emulators. I was a lifelong customer until the Switch 2 and they've shot themselves in the foot.

7 projects, most of which are yuzu forks.

Unsure how much of these were in active development, but not sure what people expected. Just don't use GitHub for this, especially if Nintendo already shut down the project before.

nintendo: we're going to dmca emulator and rom sites

padme: so you're going to make classic games easily available to play for people right?

nintendo: ...

Fuck nintendo.

Who, what, how can I help? 👀 /s

Why are these hosted on Github? Wouldn't a self hosted repo on an obscure VPS host be harder to take down?

Edit: Nvm, others already mentioned this.