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Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
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themachinestops lemmy.dbzer0.com themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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printf("%s", name); piefed.blahaj.zone akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-03-30
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Who, what, how can I help? 👀 /s

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LemmyEntertainYou piefed.social LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-12-17
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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.

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TheGingerNut piefed.blahaj.zone TheGingerNut@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-06-29
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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.

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Bobby sh.itjust.works Bobby@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-04-03
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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.

they started attacking emulators

They're like this since the 1990s. Nothing fundamentally changed.

I was a lifelong customer until the Switch 2

Then you stuck your head in the sand because they're consistent about emulators since three decades.

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kalapala sopuli.xyz kalapala@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-03-11
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they started attacking emulators They're like this since the 1990s. Nothing fundamentally changed. I was a lifelong customer until the Switch 2 Then you stuck your head in the sand because they're consistent about emulators since three decades.

To fix this lifelong mistake this person should actively bash them from now on.

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Ricky Rigatoni piefed.zip RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-02-14
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L move still using github tbh

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SharkAttak kbin.melroy.org SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
Joined: 2024-09-23
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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.

Same here, since the Palworld/patents thing.

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belated_frog_pants beehaw.org belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-09
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Fuck nintendo.

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vala lemmy.dbzer0.com vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-07-24
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Same here, since the Palworld/patents thing.

Palworld was the final straw for me.

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katy ✨ piefed.blahaj.zone cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-06
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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: ...

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Bobby sh.itjust.works Bobby@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-04-03
#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

To fix this lifelong mistake this person should actively bash them from now on.

Don't know what you mean. I merely corrected the claim that Nintendo only just started attacking emulators. I bashed nobody here.

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doctor0710 lemmy.zip doctor0710@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-01-27
#13 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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Hawk lemmy.dbzer0.com Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-18
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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.

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kalapala sopuli.xyz kalapala@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-03-11
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Don't know what you mean. I merely corrected the claim that Nintendo only just started attacking emulators. I bashed nobody here.

Not you.

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RVGamer06 sh.itjust.works RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-25
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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.

What are some of these countries?

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BlackFlagsForever lemmy.dbzer0.com BlackFlagsForever@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-19
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Fuck nintendo.

oh... I plan to ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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