According to an official statement on Ryujinx’s Discord server, developer gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and they were offered an agreement to stop working on the emulator project, and while the agreement wasn’t confirmed yet, the organization has been entirely removed.
The agreement: You agree to take it down and we agree not to take your house and 30% of your salary until you die.
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So an alternative will pop up right? At this point pirating nintendo games is a moral obligation
There are only so many programmers who are good enough to create an emulator, and a lot of them are already doing other projects. The Switch is also a very complicated system, and it needs a small team to pull it off.
“Agreement” is quite a fucking twist on “threat.”
For anyone looking, someone Archive.org’d the final Win x64 compiled version:
Someday we’ll learn that GitHub just isn’t the place for this kind of stuff…
GitHub has nothing to do with this. All the information we have is that the dev himself took everything down after an agreement with Nintendo.
Goddammit!
Why won’t Nintendo just FUCK. OFF. with this crusade of theirs??!!
(And before anyone mentions it, yes, I’m aware as to why they don’t. The question was rhetorical.)
In the meantime, anyone got a backup of the sourcecode & the binaries for win/linux?
When it was clear Yuzu was on its way out, I took out a backup and saved it in my personal server to share around with friends who asked, but Ryujinx disappeared without an announcement, so I didn’t get a chance to do that.
EDIT: Managed to find a backup of the source from just a few hours ago and save it to my own server. Guess I’ll have to compile it on my own if I want to share binaries with people who ask :P
What was the final build? I have 1.1.1402 on my PC.
I think you might have the latest. The flatpak version that is currently on my machine is 1.1.1397 – But the source I just grabbed and didn’t build is more recent.
EDIT: The flathub build is still up – For now. I pulled the latest update from there. It was 1.1.1403
Nintendo’s real intent is doubtless to try and ensure that nobody ever makes a functional emulator for the upcoming Switch 2.
Good fucking luck, the hardware will likely be a 2022 tablet if the switch is anything to go off of. Considering as well the console will likely have similar architecture, and switch emulators already exist, I’d give it about 3 months.
they probably would have been fine if they weren’t shown as being used to play the leaked echos of wisdom…
