Ryujinx Pulls Their Source Code From GitHub And Shuts Down
Ryujinx Pulls Their Source Code From GitHub And Shuts Down
The open-source project Ryujinx is no more, following a 'request' from Nintendo.
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Always prepare for a disaster. https://git.nadeko.net/Ryujinx_Mirror
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inb4 the appearance of forks called buymiinx, suemiinx, and hijinx
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Of course there will be dozens of forks. But there won't be significant development on those forks (and there may be malware added to those forks...). Which means that ryujinx today is ryujinx until the end of time, most likely.
Like... how much meaningful development has been done to all those yuzu forks everyone was frantically making?
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Pilferjinx?
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One day we'll have Switch 2 Devs working from somewhere like Russia so Nintendo can't send Pinkertons to their front door to enforce the plumber's demands
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They'll never learn to do it proper like that.
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RIP
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Reminder: don’t put your code on a corporate-owned code forge like Microsoft GitHub. That corporation is interested in helping other corporations like what happened with
youtube-dl, et al. so don’t be surprised if your code get censored, or they aide in DCMAs (not to mention locking all of your communications & contributions to a proprietary platform that blocks users based on US sanctions). Use a nonprofit, or better, self-host your code forge—& set up mirrors to be resilient. -
I feel this was only a matter of time, as there is no legal way to dump your games, so emulating the Switch is a very gray area
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Since when is it illegal to dump games? I understand distributing them being illegal but this is my own hardware, if I wanna dump BotW to my Deck I'm gonna dump it
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The software is perfectly legal.
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Assuming USA:
The software can absolutely be declared illegal under DMCA and has already been done to the DVD decrytion software DeCSS. Nintendo would just have to convince the courts that the primary purpose of the software is to circumvent their DRM, and I doubt any lawyer would want to defend that when circumventing copy protection is absolutely happening.
Relevant DMCA passage:
Section 1201(a)(2) of the Copyright Act, part of the DMCA, provides that:
"No person shall . . . offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any technology . . . that---
"(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under [the Copyright Act];
"(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under [the Copyright Act]; or
"(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under [the Copyright Act]."
The injunction that was granted: https://cryptome.org/dvd-mpaa-3-pi.htm
Court's findings and arguments for granting the injunction: https://cyber.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/filings/NY/0202-mem-order.html
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Nintendo's legal argument is that the encryption that is reverse-engineered to circumvent copy-protection is protected intellectual property.
Anyone can copy the contents of a switch ROM (more of a glorified SD card anyway) but the million-dollar question is whether their proprietary encryption can be broken legally.
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