GitLab has taken down the Suyu Nintendo Switch emulator

Emulator takedowns continue. Not long after its first release, Suyu emulator has been removed from GitLab via a DMCA takedown. Suyu was a Nintendo Switch emulator forked from Yuzu emulator, which was the high-profile subject of a takedown by Nintendo last month. GitLab deleted Suyu's repository, stating that they'd received a takedown notice for the project. The tongue-in-cheek named emulator still has an official website up, though the Discord is not allowing new members, and the GitLab download page is gone. However, it seems a self-hosted download page is still available.

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Takedown notice (courtesy of gamingonlinux)

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Xzi

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Kioku said:
Catch-22 for me. I agree with this sentiment, but I also agree that anything in the current generation of consoles should be off limits, regardless of how poorly it performs, spec-wise.

Even if we're going by release date and not specs, it's an eighth generation console. Specs have to be part of the conversation, though, when you start considering that there's a reason we don't have any functional PS4/XB1 emulators.

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The Real Jdbye

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DragonMals said:
Why did people think that making another Yuzu fork was going to revive the emulator... Yuzu got taken down, and now "SUE YOU!" got taken down. Makes perfect sense.

Make the move to Riujinx damnit or emulate older games

Take one down, 2 more will pop up. Yuzu can't be stopped. It's not a matter of reviving it. There's nothing to revive if it's never allowed to die.

Ryujinx isn't safe either. I'm confident Nintendo are going for them next. "Just use Ryujinx" is going to age poorly. Besides, Ryujinx runs TOTK just as badly as real hardware so there is no real point in playing it on Ryujinx.

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The Real Jdbye said:
Take one down, 2 more will pop up. Yuzu can't be stopped. It's not a matter of reviving it. There's nothing to revive if it's never allowed to die.

Ryujinx isn't safe either. I'm confident Nintendo are going for them next. "Just use Ryujinx" is going to age poorly. Besides, Ryujinx runs TOTK just as badly as real hardware so there is no real point in playing it on Ryujinx.

Ryujinx won't get taken down. There is nothing illegal in the emulators, even in yuzu. The yuzu team just made $$$ and shared roms, thus proving they support piracy 100%. That's the only reason Yuzu was taken down. They did illegal shit and crossed out of the "grey" area.

The reason this got taken down because Yuzu is tainted now.

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The Real Jdbye

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enigma85 said:
Ryujinx won't get taken down. There is nothing illegal in the emulators, even in yuzu. The yuzu team just made $$$ and shared roms, thus proving they support piracy 100%. That's the only reason Yuzu was taken down. They did illegal shit and crossed out of the "grey" area.

The reason this got taken down because Yuzu is tainted now.

Source? I've not heard anything about Yuzu sharing roms.

Also: https://www.patreon.com/ryujinx

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gisel213

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This shit is laugable... Suyu nor Yuzu can run the showtime game hint hints there are vids all over the net??? Shuts suyu down yet ryujinx is running the game flawlessly vids all over the net cough cough

yet its not getting shutdown hmm somethings fishy lol

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The Real Jdbye said:
Source? I've not heard anything about Yuzu sharing roms.

Also: https://www.patreon.com/ryujinx

Source? They literally were sharing TOTK on their discord. It's all over the internet. lol Before it was released. Also they had "latest" patches only available if you paid for patreon. Ryujinx is completely open and no paywall to get patches.

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LightBeam

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So Gitlab received the dmca instead of Suyu themselves ?? Thats weird. In that case they'll just host it elsewhere

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enigma85 said:
Source? They literally were sharing TOTK on their discord. It's all over the internet. lol Before it was released. Also they had "latest" patches only available if you paid for patreon. Ryujinx is completely open and no paywall to get patches.

I think they were sharing the file between themselves. But yeah, they had the early access thing hence why they were making so much money to begin with

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imagine if they fix their online service that fast as that takedown

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Kioku

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Xzi said:
Even if we're going by release date and not specs, it's an eighth generation console. Specs have to be part of the conversation, though, when you start considering that there's a reason we don't have any functional PS4/XB1 emulators.

I go by whether or not it's officially supported. Not saying they're more "legal", but it helps keep the heat off when the hardware is no longer being sold in stores.

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AsPika2219

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Sayonara Suyu again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.....

AdenTheThird

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Cut one head off, and two more appear in it's place...
I wonder how long Nintendo plans on playing whack-a-mole.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't seem like it's Nintendo that gave them the DCMA takedown notice. In fact, it seems implied that it was actually Gitlab themselves that gave them the takedown notice for reasons probably very similar to why Steam removed Dolphin; so that they don't get Nintendo's lawyers up their asses assuming it was Gitlab acting on their own accord.
It's also very possible if it wasn't Nintendo that this was a false takedown notice by some Nintendo fanboy/anti emulation person or something.

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fake

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master801

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JustSomeGuyOnTheSite said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't seem like it's Nintendo that gave them the DCMA takedown notice. In fact, it seems implied that it was actually Gitlab themselves that gave them the takedown notice for reasons probably very similar to why Steam removed Dolphin; so that they don't get Nintendo's lawyers up their asses assuming it was Gitlab acting on their own accord.
It's also very possible if it wasn't Nintendo that this was a false takedown notice by some Nintendo fanboy/anti emulation person or something.

They went to court and lost, clear cut.

Anything having to do with the source code and binaries are expected to be removed due to the legal liability.

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master801 said:
They went to court and lost, clear cut.

Anything having to do with the source code and binaries are expected to be removed due to the legal liability.

Yuzu didn't lose, it was settled out of court. No one won technically. Also, the settlement stated that the only ppl that were not allowed to use the source code were people that were trying to collaborate with the Yuzu lead devs (AKA, the ppl that got sued)

ETA: I'm no lawyer. These are just my assumptions when Yuzu settled and people were discussion it here and on other places.

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J-Will

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I really hope that Ryujinx survives.

aos10

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I mean, they are using Yuzu's code
and Nintendo now OWN Yuzu's code, so anyone using it, it become illegal, they basically made using this emulator illegal.

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aos10 said:
I mean, they are using Yuzu's code
and Nintendo now OWN Yuzu's code, so anyone using it, it become illegal, they basically made using this emulator illegal.

Isn't it still under the GPL3 license though?