Looks like they’re hosting their own repo now as a result;
Hopefully they can find a new home. I am ashamed of GitLab. I used to love it but they get worse and worse by the day. Maybe Codeberg would be a better home. Nintendo can’t kill this, there will always be new places to host software and it’s open source.
It’s absolutely ridiculous they took it down even though Nintendo didn’t DMCA the Suyu project directly. Shitty corporate cover-our-ass behavior at its finest.
I am ashamed of GitLab.
Don’t be. Gitlab has to comply with the law.
It’s the law that’s broken, not Gitlab.
It’s absolutely ridiculous they took it down even though Nintendo didn’t DMCA the Suyu project directly.
Um, no. If shitty corpo X (ab)uses the DMCA to send you a takedown notice for some project and you also host a fork of the same project, you must take down the fork too.
“You see, while this might be the exact same code, the name is totally different, so we don’t have to take it down!” will not hold up in court.
Whether the DMCA request is valid or not is an entirely separate question. You must still comply or open yourself up to legal liabilities.
The process to object to the validity of the request is included in the screenshot.
Except yuzu wasn’t dmca’d out? The devs took it down themselves
This. It’s frustrating how many uninformed people decude to just run their mouths
I’ve actually spent about $2500+ on switch and games, haven’t pirated a single game, I just play the old nes and snes roms via emulation.
I can say, due to Nintendo’s behavior I will never buy another nintendo console or game. I might even start with this Suyu emulator now and moving forward.
No company should ever attack its community this much, and aggressively. They are making piles of cash, and this is just toxic.
If you’ve not encountered it yet, check out the steam deck.
To the novice, it’s an excellent, simple to use, handheld console, with all their steam games as a bonus.
To the adventurous, a couple of clicks get you to a Linux desktop. You can install what you want (including emulators) and even plumb them back into the normal steam deck interface.
