The Ryujinx emulator, a popular tool for emulating Nintendo Switch games on PCs, has been taken down following a request from Nintendo. This action is part of Nintendo's broader crackdown on emulation and homebrew communities, particularly as the company seeks to protect its intellectual property and revenue streams.https://twitter.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1841191953146524139Key DetailsReason for Takedown: The creator of Ryujinx was approached by Nintendo and given a proposal to discontinue the project. This led to the removal of downloads and the dismantling of the organization associated with the emulator. Although the Ryujinx website remains accessible, the download option has been eliminated.Community Impact: This move follows
The Ryujinx emulator, a popular tool for emulating Nintendo Switch games on PCs, has been taken down following a request from Nintendo. This action is part of Nintendo’s broader crackdown on emulation and homebrew communities, particularly as the company seeks to protect its intellectual property and revenue streams.
UPDATE #3: According to an official statement on Ryujinx’s Discord server, developer gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and they were offered an agreement to stop working on the emulator project, and while the agreement wasn’t confirmed yet, the organization has been entirely removed.
This is not a case of copyright infringement, so I feel comfortable linking these source code mirrors:
The commit hashes on both of those mirrors match the official ones at least until March 2024 (v1.1.1217). I can’t vouch for the more recent commits that extend through today (v1.1.1403), but the two mirrors do at least match each other.
Warning: A zip file in the ryujinx_202410 subdir of https://archive.org/download/ claims to have the full git history, but the hashes do not match the original source repo. It’s possible that the mismatch is an artifact of some accident, rather than malice, but I would avoid it just in case.
More discussion here:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/26026271
From the gbatemp.net article:
This is not a case of copyright infringement, so I feel comfortable linking these source code mirrors:
https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx
https://git.l7y.media/mirrors/Ryujinx
The commit hashes on both of those mirrors match the official ones at least until March 2024 (v1.1.1217). I can’t vouch for the more recent commits that extend through today (v1.1.1403), but the two mirrors do at least match each other.
Warning: A zip file in the ryujinx_202410 subdir of https://archive.org/download/ claims to have the full git history, but the hashes do not match the original source repo. It’s possible that the mismatch is an artifact of some accident, rather than malice, but I would avoid it just in case.