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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 100 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless there's someone to work on the actual emulation layer, yet another Yuzu fork won't help anything.

[–] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago
[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Since then, Citron has focused more on closing its community, requiring users to prove they have a modded Switch to unlock certain features.

spongebob ick

[–] PlatinumSf@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, this is a Nintendo lawsuit thing

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks android authority for putting this shit on blast. Nothing like keeping this quiet

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Considering they have a public website and repo on GitHub for the project, it's not like Nintendo doesn't know about them.

https://eden-emulator.github.io/

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The download link returns a 404, is it already down?

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I think it's all a placeholder still. Blogs missing for instance.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 months ago (5 children)

And what's gonna keep this one from getting taken down by Nintendo?

[–] rivan@lemm.ee 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The time needed to build a lawsuit, usually about six to ten months

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 18 points 2 months ago

I would guess that it would be forced to be taken down immediately, and then litigation would determine whether it can be put back up.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unlike Ryujinx they should try to have redundancies in case of Team members leaving and be willing to boot and ostracize members who attempt to sabotage the project. The other piece would be to either develop from regions where Nintendo has no legal leverage, or try to stay safe with cleanroom and PR techniques (losing battle since the USA is crooked when it comes to IP and freedom).

Also hey it's the other NEO of Lemmy.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

hopefully they don't start a patreon like the other devs.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is there a Patreon with crypto? Lol

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago
[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Same thing that's kept all the other emulators from being taken down: not being illegal.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What was illegal about ryujinx?

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo decided it was. Nothing else, to my knowledge.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, Nintendo decided to offer the dev money so he stops working on it.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

True but I dare say it was quickly followed with an "or else". We do know about Nintendo's mafia, after all so only offering the nice hand feels very off.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

it was less illegal and more the dev took money to quit it.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] yozul@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sort of. Nintendo's lawyers showed up at the house of the lead dev and he nuked everything he had access to afterwards, which is all we really know, but unlike Yuzu there were no court filings or takedowns or anything. Forks of Ryujinx are still just up on Github.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Well I suppose you also need to be prepared for intimidation and self-hostable Github

[–] yozul@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The actual answer to that question is that the Switch 2 will be out soon. Nintendo doesn't actually want to go to court over emulators, because there's a real chance they lose. They were willing to push the devs with Switch emulators though, because that's the current console generation, and that REALLY pissed them off. They've basically accepted that emulators are inevitable even if they don't like it, but emulating the console they are currently releasing new games for was a step too far as far as they're concerned.

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for the Switch 2 emulator so I don't have to support nintendo's bad decisions but still play games day 1.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 20 points 2 months ago

Get it before the authors get sued into the afterlife by Nintendo!

[–] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago
[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy is Any% speedrunning a DMCA takedown from Nintendo.

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Seems they're self hosting their gir repo. So a DMCA is going to be a lot harder for Nintendo.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

If they host the instance on some VPS, then it is possible.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

That was fast.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Since then, Citron has focused more on closing its community, requiring users to prove they have a modded Switch to unlock certain features.

If I had a modded Switch, wouldn't I just fucking use that?

[–] Stez827@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe you want higher resolution or higher frame rates than the switch can do

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have an unpatchable switch 1, its shit compared to running the games on PC in higher res at 60fps. Also the battery life sucks ass so I can't play on the go for long enough.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago
[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 2 points 2 months ago

And it'll be nuked the moment it announces its existence publicly.