Someday we’ll learn that GitHub just isn’t the place for this kind of stuff…
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
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What is the alternative?
Closed source "I swear this executable that will let you play all the games you want is legit" hosted on sourceforge or random websites that get hugged to death every day that ends in a y?
Also: it isn't like that would stop this kind of legal action. MS/Github are barely a factor. It is the devs themselves getting the "hey, stop it or we'll turn you into indentured servants" letters.
I agree with your second paragraph, but you do know there are plenty of good alternatives to Github right?
And they change nothing? It still boils down to human beings being liable.
GitFlic in Russia. Good luck telling them to get rid of something
It's where Bypass paywall clean browser extension went after the DMCA bullshut
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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
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For anyone looking, someone Archive.org'd the final Win x64 compiled version:
So an alternative will pop up right? At this point pirating nintendo games is a moral obligation
It's Nintendo practically daring people to do it.
And they will.
"What are you gonna do, stab me?"
- Quote from man stabbed
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.
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.)^
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they probably would have been fine if they weren't shown as being used to play the leaked echos of wisdom....
Don't think so, one day it would be shutdowned by Nintendo
If we keep using the current version and it never gets any updates, will it keep running the whole Switch game library.
Mostly, probably.
I would expect the legal teams to slow down once the switch becomes obsolete. (Like the SNES, GCN, etc.) At that point some other group will take up the mantle and patch whatever is broken.
... That's my guess.
seems like there have been multiple contributors. so many clones of the repo....
People please try using https://radicle.xyz/ for hosting source code. I haven't used it but the idea of it sounds pretty cool
The dev got bribed (or threatened) by Nintendo to manually delete the repo. GitHub this time didn't do anything
Lol, why do you think payment is the more likely of the two options?
Why the hell would Nintendo pay them anything when a C&D is cheaper and just as effective.
As I understand it, cause of the country the creator is from, a C&D was unlikely to be enforceable. Money, on the other hand, is a universal language.
C&Ds are generally just threats to take someone to court. They aren't themselves enforceable.
Even I can send C&Ds if I want but I don't have anything to back them up with. Nintendo on the other hand absolutely does.
By "enforceable," I meant, "the reasonable legal means to follow up".
So you wouldn't comply with Nintendo in a similar position?
I would, but I live in a country that cares about IP laws.
Well, I for sure wouldn't gamble my life for some emulator even if I lived in Brazil (Pretty sure it was Brazil).
I this is the more probable version of events.
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Until now the stance was "rofl in Brazil C&Ds are a waste of money", so the bribe option makes sense.
Suppose that they calculate $1 million in legal costs in order to take the case to a court, then offering something like $200k to delete the repo is a big saving.
The dev of simple mobile apps sold millions of users to an ad company for just $30k which was almost pennies if we think how popular those apps were in the Foss community
Now, backups of the code are widely available, will the development continue without the main dev? Suyu (fork of yuzu) made almost no progress since the fork
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Money Talks, Bullshit Walks.
At least with radicle all the forks will still exist even if the authoritative copy is taken down. And even then I think because radicle is like BitTorrent, anybody who pinned the main repo would still be seeding it so it would be very hard to scrub it completely. The main challenge in using radicle is getting an active contributor with some reputation to maintain their copy on there. Otherwise there's no momentum and nobody will pin the countless mirrors published by randos.
Damn, I just got a mac and it has replaced my switch thanks to this brilliant software
Fuck
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