Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.
its very easy to use forgejo or radical to host your code. Fuck corpos piracy ftw
They are slow. I expected that to happen way faster. But yeah, pretty much what everyone knew would happen actually happened. I don’t get what it is with people hosting that stuff on GitHub. By now it’s safe to assume they know that it’s taken down.
Nintendo is open season btw
Too bad I’m still using my copy of Yuzu that they “took down “ two years ago
FYI, Eden is a fork of yuzu that adds quite a lot of features and is fully compatible with yuzu saves/mods/configs.
My favorite new feature is loading updates and DLC from a folder instead of having to install them.
Coool I’ll have to check it out
That the community still uses Github for anything but a mirror?
And/or
Nintendo: Part time game company Full time law firm
There is such news article every few months and yet no relevant emulators are down.
I bet it’s a PR stunt but I have no idea who it could be aimed at.
And even if they were, a new repository for it would pop up in a month tops.
Emulators are legal as long as you don’t ship keys or weird shit, if GitHub takes them down even when no law was broken, then use another provider, GitHub is Microsoft and runs like shit.
It also uses 220 MB of memory per tab. A laggy manga reader site with tons of pictures, uses 80 MB. How do they even do this? My line isn’t that fast!
100k div soup and 200k npm libraries would do it
My games were digital so I don’t know how I would be able to make my own rom for emulation and I’m not really interested in giving Nintendo more money
If they were stored on an SD card, wouldn’t it be easier to get the files for emulation?
…oh
Just pirate the games. You already paid for them, so morally it should be fine. And legally, downloading without uploading is safe everywhere on the planet.
mfw i made a switch emulator but i host it on corpo run repositories.
As a general reminder, self hosting your own git repo or hosting it on a private VPS is incredibly cheap. You can then have it cloned to new github/bitbucket whenever these sweeps happen. Using a fork as a ‘backup’ is pointless if it’s still hosted on Github no matter how many thousand copies are made. Microsoft will throw you and everyone in your commit history under a bus at the whims of Nintendo’s lawyers.
You self host gitlab-ce to avoid dmca’s from mega corps.
I self host gitlab-ce so that no one can see all of my shitty commits.
We are not the same.
I set up my own Forgejo instance a few days ago, it took me longer to upload my repositories than to set it up, although I went with docker so one could say I cheated by taking the easy way. In any case, if you have some old hardware laying around or already rent a server anyway, give it a try.
When you cut off one head of the Hydra three more will take its place
Been using Eden and it’s been flawless so far
They never learn not to use GitHub.
Serious question for the seriously uninformed: what’s the alternative?
Read too fast and saw “self-loathing” which took me a second because self-hosting sort of feels that way sometimes.
But in all seriousness, I highly suggest taking a weekend to learn how to run docker. For the most part, if you’re using a compose file, getting something working takes about as much time as installing a program on an old PC.
Most of these should have a compose and documentation on what variables you need to set (like passwords and file paths and such).
Personally, I run Forgejo and set up mirrors that will sync every 8-12 hours off the repos that I feel shows promise, but also may be targeted.
When you see DCMAs hit, they go ahead and submit them for forks as well since GitHub tracks them. But they can’t target me since I’m mirroring off-site.
…Unfortunately I find many of these post DCMA, but usually the community fights back and you’ll find clones/forks floating around… but I do what I can to try and help decentralize. Hopefully one day the network effect may reverse and pull people elsewhere than GitHub…
Just a random tangent but I love Docker compose. Set it up once, and it works on every machine forever. Change distro? No problem. Move to VPS? No problem. It’s just so neat.
The only downside is you have to learn the arcane ways. It’s not intuitive or easy to understand at all, especially once you get into advanced networking, volumes, etc
Running docked sounds like the easy bit. The hard bit would be getting a static IP for external access, or paying for a host that allows you an entire VM.
I pay about $9 a month for a shitty shared PHP host, in spite of much discussion I haven’t found much out there that’s better than that.
There are countless git sites.
They never learn
notto use Git
