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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 86884, member: 27"]
Another DMCA swing just rattled the Switch emulator crowd, but the scene refuses to lie down.

Nintendo cracks down on Switch emulators
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[*]Nintendo went hard with DMCA hits in 2024.
[*]Yuzu and Ryujinx caught the legal smoke first.
[*]Despite that hit, forks kept popping up anyway.
[*]Metroid Prime 4 ran instantly on those emulators.
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Fresh DMCA wave hits GitHub pages
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[*]Nintendo aimed fresh takedown notices at GitHub repos.
[*]Citron, Eden, Kenji-NX, MeloNX, and others got flagged.
[*]Ryujinx, Skyline, Sudachi, Suyu, and Yuzu were listed.
[*]Pine, Pomelo, Ryubing, and Sumi also appeared.
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Project pages and availability status
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[*]Citron’s website has gone dark after the notice.
[*]MeloNX’s page also appears to be offline.
[*]Eden remains accessible and still widely used.
[*]Most other emulator projects stay publicly reachable.
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Eden response and workaround plan
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[*]Eden confirmed GitHub Releases received the DMCA complaint.
[*]Project managers said only the Releases repo was targeted.
[*]Source code lives on a separate self-hosted Git server.
[*]Stable builds are mirrored outside GitHub already.
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Pushback and continued development
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[*]A fresh v0.2.0-rc1 build still showed up on GitHub.
[*]Project managers said they are contesting the takedown.
[*]Camille LaVey indicated the team plans to keep going.
[*]Development continues regardless of GitHub’s final call.
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