Nintendo bribed developers to shut down emulators

At the beginning of the year, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the developers of the Switch Yuzu emulator and, among other things, asked Github to remove all copies of the open source project. During Tuesday disappear Suddenly another popular Switch emulator – Ryujinx – was dropped from Github for no apparent reason.

Naturally, speculation about what happened began immediately. Ryujinx doesn't contain any of the files Yuzu had and it gave Nintendo's lawyers something to attack, so the emulator was deemed safe on that front, but obviously there's still concern. But it soon became clear that this was not a new lawsuit.

Nintendo has contacted the emulator's lead developer, one developer wrote on the project's Discord server. com. gdkchanon Monday with an “offer” in exchange for closing the project and removing the entire organization from GitHub. Thus Ryujinx was sold by the developer.

The fact that there has been no lawsuit or request to Github to take down the project under the US DMCA means that Ryujinx clones will likely appear soon. But without the main developer at the helm, it is not certain that any version will succeed in starting development again and the emulator risks remaining in its current state.

When Yuzu disappeared, several clones appeared but after a few months there seemed to be only Suyu left, which although it has an active community on Reddit and a number of developers, is not developing at all at the same pace as Yuzu or Ryujinx were.