Yuzu’s code is out there for good, but Nintendo can certainly make it harder to develop.
It’s been two months since the makers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu settled for $2.4 million, ceasing development and handing the code over to Nintendo. Before Yuzu was taken offline, though, countless emulation fans forked the code to their own Github repositories, creating a duplicate. Others backed the code up to other hosting platforms, which may make them more resilient to Nintendo’s takedown requests than Github, which has just complied with a Nintendo takedown request by removing 8,535 repositories of Yuzu code.
The details of the takedown were posted on Github yesterday, based on a takedown request sent on April 29. «Because the reported network that contained the allegedly infringing content was larger than one hundred (100) repositories, and the submitter alleged that all or most of the forks were infringing to the same extent as the parent repository, GitHub processed the takedown notice against the entire network of 8,535 repositories, inclusive of the parent repository,» the statement reads.
