After a rough week, the emulation and homebrew scene continues to suffer major losses. As of today, homebrew developer Steveice10's GitHub repository has been deleted. A known quantity in the 3DS homebrew scene, Steveice10 created important tools for the system such as a modified sysupdater, a port of GBC emulator GameYob to the 3DS, and most importantly, FBI title manager, which allows users to install .CIA format 3DS titles and homebrew.

FBI has not been updated since 2020, and was considered feature-complete, with its source code available and the project archived, but it was suddenly removed from GitHub today, along with all of his other projects. The exact reasoning behind the removal isn't known, though the timing implies it may be related to other events happening in the emulation and homebrew scene recently.

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[JaNDeRPeiCH]

@lifehackerhansol made an archive of the repo, so its not fully lost. https://github.com/lifehackerhansol/FBI

Thanks but im afraid gameyob and other tools to Steve Dev are lost.Maybe im wrong and somebody have a copy of the other projects.

 

[SylverReZ]

Thanks but im afraid gameyob and other tools to Steve Dev are lost.Maybe im wrong and somebody have a copy of the other projects.

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/GameYob_3DS

 

[Alexander1970]

What a shame and very,very sad.
(Yes,of course,I know,there are currently many "Backups" actual in the World Wide Web...)

Well, of course this has absolutely nothing to do with Nintendo's current "Way of Life"... absolutely not...

Also a Message "arrived" today from MarioCube....of course...random and meaningless....

 

[Lostbhoy]

Sorry but this has to be said...

Fuck in hell man.

 

[Quore]

I hope this doesn't mess up with all the set-up and process to jailbreak/download new games on the 3DS, it would be a horror

 

[Immortallix]

wat

Unless these devs have been pulling the same kind of shady stuff the yuzu devs have, what reason do they have to be scared?

 

[CoolMe]

I hope this doesn't mess up with all the set-up and process to jailbreak/download new games on the 3DS, it would be a horror

Well im pretty sure the 3ds.guide will no longer link to it, so noobies will def be on their own finding fbi..

 

[MightySashiman]

again, baffled by the lack of the lack of anomysation measures of these scene geniuses....

 

[Quore]

I hate Nintendo so fucking much right now.

I like to say that Nintendo is basically the Ferrari of gaming.

Its a company that makes great games/cars but it has so many... SO MANY awkward laws and rules thats makes you kinda (or completely) hate it

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Well im pretty sure the 3ds.guide will no longer link to it, so noobies will def be on their own finding fbi..

If i know well the homebrew/emulation community, this "manual" way yo find the FBI won't be for long

 

[Subtle Demise]

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, children are men and Nintendo is FBI who is able to remove anything of the Internet.

It's even worse than that. Nintendo is the Yakuza so is not beholden to any rules or laws or constitutional "rights" in any nation.

 

[Quore]

wat

Unless these devs have been pulling the same kind of shady stuff the yuzu devs have, what reason do they have to be scared?

Nay, if I'm not mistaken it doesn't uses anything related to Nintendo.

But I think, and just THINK, that's something like Drastic dev, like "Oh its been a while since I've updated the program and i don't have time to focus on it + this Nintendo issues so im deleting it"

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It's even worse than that. Nintendo is the Yakuza so is not beholden to any rules or laws or constitutional "rights" in any nation.

I heard that one of Nintendo's HQ is literally in the same area where a Yakuza family dominates

 

[JORGETECH]

I'm going say this as calmly as I can: WTF IS GOING ON

No, seriously what is happening this week? I hope this is not related to recent events with certain emulator, because if that's the case I'm starting to be a bit annoyed by so many people being so easily scared.

 

[lifehackerhansol]

Thanks but im afraid gameyob and other tools to Steve Dev are lost.Maybe im wrong and somebody have a copy of the other projects.

Someone reconstructed gameyob3ds by copy pasting each file from Wayback Machine the other day: https://github.com/SombrAbsol/GameYob-3DS

It should be noted steveice10 took down his gameyob source long before the account was deleted though.

 

[ertaboy356b]

Nay, if I'm not mistaken it doesn't uses anything related to Nintendo.

But I think, and just THINK, that's something like Drastic dev, like "Oh its been a while since I've updated the program and i don't have time to focus on it + this Nintendo issues so im deleting it"

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I heard that one of Nintendo's HQ is literally in the same area where a Yakuza family dominates

Doesn't it use title keys? I remember lots of games where you need to import a seed or something like Pokemon Crystal for example.

 

[Quore]

Doesn't it use title keys? I remember lots of games where you need to import a seed or something like Pokemon Crystal for example.

Good question

 

[whitesword7]

what’s the point of github and version controlling and all this fancy shit if you guys are just gonna remove it like that at the end of the day??? shame these devs

 

[JORGETECH]

what’s the point of github and version controlling and all this fancy shit if you guys are just gonna remove it like that at the end of the day??? shame these devs

I couldn't agree more, if this kind of thing keeps going on, it wouldn't be a bad idea to start archiving the source code to every (free) software I download, similar to what Linux distros like Debian do.

 

[DJPlace]

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, children are men and Nintendo is FBI who is able to remove anything of the Internet.

yet the FBI Nintendo allows uncensored bullshit on there 3rd party games but sony's like oh we can't show the uncensored bullshit cause we hate anime and shit like that. (looks at that unicorn overlord on switch=not censored sony=censored. what the hell.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

The guide has already been updated to link to a new GitHub repository which provides both the 2.6.1 binaries and source.

 

[ChaoticPumpkin]

For people planning to archive git repos, make sure to use git clone --mirror to fully download all branches, and make sure any submodules are archived too.

It sucks to see this happening, but I do understand why developers would want to be cautious right now. Hopefully it'll cool back down soon, but currently this is exactly what Nintendo could have hoped for.