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GitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu (www.theverge.com)
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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

To be expected. Honestly I don't know what they expected, directly cloning and working on the very same emulator Nintendo shutdown a few days prior. They should have taken their time, reorganize, remove problematic stuff and documentation, and create a complete new identity with different branding. If anyone wants truly work on this emulator, they should think about a good approach. And maybe wait until Nintendo does not sell the console anymore.

(Edit: After reading the reply, this paragraph can be answered with "no". I got it flipped and it's actually Yuzu that did not require firmware.) And is it true that suyu did not need any product keys anymore and an empty file would be enough to play all games? That's even worse for Nintendo, because that makes piracy even easier.

People call me a Nintendo fanboy and yuzu hater. It's the opposite, I'm a Yuzu player (almost daily) and don't like Nintendo anymore. And it saddens me to see how incompetent some people go with this topic.

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure where you heard that info about the keys, but it's not right at all. In fact, suyu went the ryujinx way and makes you provide all the keys and the firmware yourself, whereas yuzu only required the keys.

Suyu has done a lot to remove the problematic code and restructure their documentation. It would do well for people criticizing them to first go see what they've done. The suyu devs themselves said that the DMCA request didn't even come from Nintendo, it came from gitlab automatically because they forked a repo that was taken down.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe I got it the other way and Yuzu did not require. Did a quick research and seems like the opposite, maybe the person I was listening to (or read, honestly don't remember the source) got it twisted?? I'm sorry for my misinformation and will edit my above reply. I did not know this and always installed firmware, title.keys and prod.keys.

The suyu devs themselves said that the DMCA request didn’t even come from Nintendo, it came from gitlab automatically because they forked a repo that was taken down.

That would sound plausible, if it wasn't that much delayed from the actual takedown of original Yuzu. If this is true, then they will probably work on Suyu elsewhere.