Naa most projects are still fine off github. Theres a couple of emus that are now officially off gh and they are still being worked on.

Self-hosted gits in a country that doesn't care are becoming popular.

They'll need to proactively clone it to a non-github repos before its shutdown.

I personally got ahold of the final version of the source code to Ryujinx after it was pulled from GitHub and put it on archive.org and I'm literally a random nobody who had nothing to do with the project so you are very incorrect. It was almost immediately picked up by other developers and is still seeing development to this day

Until someone puts it back…

Ah that might have been it then. As others pointed out, they never had the keys in the emulator itself.

Dunno if Yuzu provided the game itself, or tools to extract the game successfully, but the main argument from Nintendo was still copy protection bypassing, which is illegal.

Actually now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure they also nuked the Switch dumping tools from GitHub long before they killed Yuzu for the same reason. All it did was extract the firmware and console keys, but it was enough to force the tools to be rehosted.

The emulator didn't, but I think they had one somewhere in their git history or website.

I forgot now, but I vaguely remember Nintendo pointing out a specific key that was found under the parent company's assets.

Could be wrong though, maybe they really did just get screwed over

Yes it is

It's-a-me, Rario!

Legendary ratio.

Oh you're using the comma as a decimal point... Still pretty good.

There are hosts and nameservers located in countries that don't give a fuck about companies like Nintendo.

In fact, the recent backlash about everything being hosted in the US has started to make this even easier as companies in other countries are stepping in to grab market share as companies look to flee US hosting.

Sure, but since the project itself is not illegal, they could just keep mirroring it and even throw it up on a .onion site or an I2P eepsite.

https://eden-emu.dev/

I forget if they have fast forward/speed up and turbo though.

They don't have RetroAchievements, more than 1 or 2 shaders, custom backgrounds, advanced key mapping, easy recording to OBS, permanent "ownership" of games and saves, the ability to use any USB or Bluetooth controller...I'm sure there's plenty more.

Don't get me wrong, I like NSO and I liked the Virtual Store(s)...but emulation on PC is still miles ahead of NSO and such.

Yeah, I'd say NSO is now on the level I'd expect from a company offering. Still doesn't compete with fan offerings, I.E. I can now play Windwaker on Switch 2, in a similar experience to original GameCube hardware, but on Dolphin I can play Windwaker with a widescreen code, in native 4K or higher, and using a fanmade texture pack like Hypatia's, and the game is gorgeous. I can additionally access top-quality content like the randomizer, or even archipelago, with all sorts of optional enhancements like the swift sail. Or I could even emulate the Wii U remaster.

But, it's meeting the level I expect from a paid team that has a few years targeting a mobile chipset, compared to decades of accumulated passionate fan effort. It's reasonable, unlike at release where the N64 emulation had swathes of issues not even present on Wii/Wii U Virtual Console, for example.

I mean, wasn’t switch 2 the fastest selling console of all time?

No, the fastest selling NINTENDO console (IIRC)

Unfortunately, yes. They outsold switch 1 by about 2 mil so far in it's first year and there's still a few months to go. I will eventually get one I'm sure, but probably second hand.

I don't understand your point. How is blocking emus ruining the Switch 2's backward compatibility?

Honestly, that kind of makes sense given the era the NES came out in. There was a fair amount of unplayable shovelware for the Atari, so having some oversight was probably good marketing at the time.

The practice of going after emulators and trying to establish exclusive rights to game mechanics that they didn't actually invent is a bit further.

Lifetime of goodwill I believe the quote is. The OP is right on that too. I don't know how old you are, but there's a certain generation that allocates Nintendo an exceptional personal worth and views them as an exceptional company, due to the long standing memories that are associated with their products. Mainly the NES/Super NES era, but they had a few waves. It's not really brainwashing, it's literally like 20 or so years of memories with products that were key during crucial moments of our lives. So yeah, it's a bit hard to reconcile that with the way they are acting in our modern age, honestly.

Gamehub, GameNative, Winlator

Gamehub is the most streamlined. As long as you have a recent as of the last like 3 years flagship snapdragon phone, you can emulate PC games pretty well. No root. Uses FEX, WINE, DXVK, etc. Pretty much the same software used for playing windows games on desktop linux