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Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

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[-] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 53 points 5 days ago

I won't buy anything Nintendo ever again because they started attacking emulators. I was a lifelong customer until the Switch 2 and they've shot themselves in the foot.

[-] Bobby@sh.itjust.works 74 points 5 days ago

they started attacking emulators

They're like this since the 1990s. Nothing fundamentally changed.

I was a lifelong customer until the Switch 2

Then you stuck your head in the sand because they're consistent about emulators since three decades.

[-] kalapala@sopuli.xyz 24 points 5 days ago

To fix this lifelong mistake this person should actively bash them from now on.

[-] Bobby@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Don't know what you mean. I merely corrected the claim that Nintendo only just started attacking emulators. I bashed nobody here.

[-] kalapala@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Not you.

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 5 days ago

Same here, since the Palworld/patents thing.

[-] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

Palworld was the final straw for me.

[-] TheGingerNut@piefed.blahaj.zone 51 points 5 days ago

Eden emu hosts its own git instance. If you have a server and live in a country where section 1201 of the DMCA does not apply you could do the same.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

What are some of these countries?

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 34 points 5 days ago

L move still using github tbh

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

7 projects, most of which are yuzu forks.

Unsure how much of these were in active development, but not sure what people expected. Just don't use GitHub for this, especially if Nintendo already shut down the project before.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago

nintendo: we're going to dmca emulator and rom sites

padme: so you're going to make classic games easily available to play for people right?

nintendo: ...

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago

Who, what, how can I help? 👀 /s

[-] Wireless_Dirk@ani.social 3 points 5 days ago

Imagine playing a Shittenturd.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

Fuck nintendo.

[-] doctor0710@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Why are these hosted on Github? Wouldn't a self hosted repo on an obscure VPS host be harder to take down?

Edit: Nvm, others already mentioned this.

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026

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