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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Same thing that's kept all the other emulators from being taken down: not being illegal.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What was illegal about ryujinx?

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo decided it was. Nothing else, to my knowledge.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, Nintendo decided to offer the dev money so he stops working on it.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

True but I dare say it was quickly followed with an "or else". We do know about Nintendo's mafia, after all so only offering the nice hand feels very off.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago

it was less illegal and more the dev took money to quit it.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] yozul@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sort of. Nintendo's lawyers showed up at the house of the lead dev and he nuked everything he had access to afterwards, which is all we really know, but unlike Yuzu there were no court filings or takedowns or anything. Forks of Ryujinx are still just up on Github.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

Well I suppose you also need to be prepared for intimidation and self-hostable Github