Nintendo reportedly issues DMCA takedown for Switch homebrew projects, Skyline Switch emulator development ceased

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Some fallout from the early leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom appears to be taking place. As players are loading the game into emulators and playing them unofficially on their computers, prior to the launch date, Nintendo is taking action to prevent that from happening. Lockpick and Lockpick_RCM are homebrew tools that allow users to dump unique keys from their Nintendo Switch console, which are required for numerous Switch hacking-related programs, including the Ryujinx and Yuzu Switch emulators. While Lockpick has been around for years, Nintendo has reportedly decided to go after it, by issuing a DMCA takedown to the GitHub project page, igniting concern and discussion within the community.

At the time of writing, Lockpick_RCM's repository is still active, it could be due to GitHub providing a grace period following a DMCA notice. Twitter user Simon Aarons was made aware of the takedown, after forking Lockpick, and allegedly receiving an email from GitHub, on behalf of Nintendo of America's legal team, who asserts that Lockpick is "circumvention software that infringes Nintendo’s intellectual property rights. Specifically, the reported repository provides Lockpick to users. The use of Lockpick with a modified Nintendo Switch console allows users to bypass Nintendo’s Technological Measures for video games; specifically, Lockpick bypasses the Console TPMs to permit unauthorized access to, extraction of, and decryption of all the cryptographic keys, including product keys, contained in the Nintendo Switch. The decrypted keys facilitate copyright infringement by permitting users to play pirated versions of Nintendo’s copyright-protected game software on systems without Nintendo’s Console TPMs or systems on which Nintendo’s Console TPMs have been disabled. Trafficking in circumvention software, such as Lockpick, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States (specifically, 17 U.S.C. §1201), and infringes copyrights owned by Nintendo."

Shortly after this, Skyline Emulator, a Switch emulator for Android devices, made the decision to shut down development, via a post on their Discord Server. Since you need the keys dumped from Lockpick in order to run Skyline, the team behind the emulator is concerned that it means Nintendo will target them for also violating their copyright.

It is with great sadness that we bring you this news. Recently, Nintendo has issued a DMCA takedown notice against Lockpick RCM which will likely come into effect on Monday, Lockpick is a core part of legally dumping keys from the Switch. They claim that it circumvents their copy protection (TPMs) and therefore violates their copyright. We find ourselves in a position where we are potentially violating their copyright by continuing to develop our project, Skyline, by dumping keys from our own Switches.

The Skyline team will be making their incomplete source code public, at the very least, and will keep the emulator's GitHub page active. Other homebrew projects are rumored to have been hit with DMCA notices as well. Ryujinx's emulator team stated that they will not be shutting down, following worries after Skyline.
 
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I like how people are shitting on Nintendo for protecting themselves. Why are pieces of shits for preventing something that can harm and ruin business for them? Prejudice Hypocrites have no respect.
If it actually harmed them at all, they would've been bankrupt ages ago, seeing how easy to hack their crap is and how their games get constantly leaked online, but afaik, they're one of Japan's richest companies, sooo...
And well, there's many other reasons to not respect this scumpany, this here being one of many.
 

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Why did Skyline shutdown if Nintendo didn't even talk to them? I don't get it. At least wait till you receive an actual DMCA takedown before taking action. They shutdown just because they *could* be targeted. Strange
Yeah they volunteered a fair amount of information that they didn't have to, seems like maybe they were looking for an excuse to dump the project anyway and the timing on this was convenient.
 

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Yup nintendo don't want people to know that you don't actually need to buy nintendo consoles to play nintendo games using software that the community creates that ACTUALLY runs nintendo games better than nintendo OFFICIAL hardware.

End of thr day, emulators are not illegal nor are other tools to enable you to play your own backups.

Nintendo need to fuck off, the only thing here they have a right to stop is those hosting the game for users to download, the emulators have nothing to do with this.

Maybe its time we find a judge that is an actual gamer and not a gimp thats easily bought, nintendo should be told to fuck off and do better to ensure its software is not pirated.

Its funny that nintendo have done absolutely fuck all to ensure its software is tackling piracy, maybe because they know they can make more money taking every cunt to court.

Funny how nintendo claims to love its third parties, yet you never hear fuck all until its their own games getting dumped and to be 100% honest, why the fuck are people paying this stupid price hike for a shit last gen game that cant even run decently on its intended hardware.

The game as expected is a sack of shit, litrally like BOTW, we waited years for the next zelda title and what do we get......

6 years later and again, whats this pile of shit, exactly the same crap all over again, boring repetitive shrines that somehow magically appear out of nowhere and all these floating islands that were not there.

And its recycling the same basic shit again.

Id tell nintendo to go do one, start focusing on improving its software and maybe then gamers wouldnt have to resort to using fan created software in order to enjoy their games.

The frame rate on TotK is fucking terrible, I feel like im spazing out and missing 2-3 seconds playing the game, you can litrally see how bad it is just moving the main character.

Customers should be entitled to enforce their consumer legal rights and counter nintendo, force them to recall this pile of crap DLC and on title and make them fix the game so it can actually run and perform on a level that is how the game should be.

But end of the day we all know the reason why nintendo cant even run its own games, because they're cheap cunts that keep recycling inferior hardware and slap a gimmick on to fool the fanboys into thinking the console is something "innovative".

Id rather shove these gimmicks up their arse and have hardware that can actually play games as intended and actually enable third parties to support it with its current titles, not be a port whore machine with everything nintendo FAILED to get first time round.

We DO NOT buy consoles to play games WE ALREADY OWN, I dont give a crap if the console could suck me off or do the house chores.... you buy consoles to play games end of!!

Nintendo have gotten that lazy that they have litrally done fuck all in terms of the switch, they have litrally ported every fucking old title they can think of, even its PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE offers fuck all, but, yup, you guessed it, more OLD SHIT PORTED.

when you look at what everyone else is doing, then look at nintendo, ONLY the fanboys can sit there and actually defend nintendo, personally I dont even understand how or even why people are even investing into this shit.

Seriously, who the fuck is that stupid to think anything nintendo offer and do these days is actually worth the ridiculous price they charge.

They should be forced to improve the quality of its games, consoles and services that crying to the legal system and trying to claim millions in damages.

When fact is no damage has been caused, gamers should be entitled to actually enjoy their games and be able to play them at its fullest, nintendos official hardware is not fit for its purpose, fan created software is able to run switch games better than the official hardware weeks before its officially released.

So that has to say alot, fan created software can run and play a game better than the intended hardware weeks before it is even released.

Where the fuck has consumer laws disappeared to, when a product has to be of a high standard that is fit for purpose, what happened to this bullshit official nintendo seal of quality.

That bullshit seal of quality that nintendo charged to use thats sole purpose was to ensure customers that when buying nintendo licensed software, that this seal of quality means and ensures that this game has passed all checks to make sure that this software is at the highest quality.

But we find nintendo dont even uphold to these standards that they themselves fucking set.

So fuck nintendo, we dont need them anymore, they're like a cancer to the gaming industry, they have gotten away for too long raping consumers out of hard earned cash having to re purchase the same old recycled shit over and over and over again.

They should be forced to catch up with todays standards in hardware and make its hardware capable of allowing third parties to release its current titles and be designed to do so for the remaining expected life of the console.

Not some cheap nasty gimmick crap that basically just capable of running the last generation console games.

But no, we dont live in the real world anymore, the world we live in is that those with money are able to do as they wish and when we the consumer want to enjoy a superior experience, nintendo can spit their pacifiers out and cry like little cunts to the judge and demand they shut this shit down and then claim millions in damages.

I bet not one single £1 is handed to third parties who have become victim to so called exploits that nintendo have done fuck all to prevent and ensure its console software is safe, I dont get how they get to earn £14m in damages when all nintendo have done is recycle and port its old shit that has already had its time on the market and made its money.

Just nintendo are gready lazy cunts that just want to milk everything to the last drop that they can.

Meanwhile the gaming industry yet again zooms past nintendo as they continue to fail to provide the basics of todays gaming industry norms.
 

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Year six would definitely be EoL territory for any other console, but Nintendo might just be delusional enough to believe they can keep the current rate of sales going simply by releasing one big game a year for the next five years. Maybe a slightly upgraded "Pro" revision during that time frame too.
It's already been 6 years?!
 
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didn't it release in march of that year? i remember buying it at launch?

anyway this is dumb and should be fought against but i bet they're counting on people to be apathetic
 

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So, with no lock pick we can't get the new keys, how gonna we take then now?
The keys probably will always be not far from a search away
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Nintendo is probably shaken by how many people are playing totk on PC.
If skyline catch up with pc emu Nintendo will hurt must worst than now
 

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Yup nintendo don't want people to know that you don't actually need to buy nintendo consoles to play nintendo games using software that the community creates that ACTUALLY runs nintendo games better than nintendo OFFICIAL hardware.

End of thr day, emulators are not illegal nor are other tools to enable you to play your own backups.

Nintendo need to fuck off, the only thing here they have a right to stop is those hosting the game for users to download, the emulators have nothing to do with this.

Maybe its time we find a judge that is an actual gamer and not a gimp thats easily bought, nintendo should be told to fuck off and do better to ensure its software is not pirated.

Its funny that nintendo have done absolutely fuck all to ensure its software is tackling piracy, maybe because they know they can make more money taking every cunt to court.

Funny how nintendo claims to love its third parties, yet you never hear fuck all until its their own games getting dumped and to be 100% honest, why the fuck are people paying this stupid price hike for a shit last gen game that cant even run decently on its intended hardware.

The game as expected is a sack of shit, litrally like BOTW, we waited years for the next zelda title and what do we get......

6 years later and again, whats this pile of shit, exactly the same crap all over again, boring repetitive shrines that somehow magically appear out of nowhere and all these floating islands that were not there.

And its recycling the same basic shit again.

Id tell nintendo to go do one, start focusing on improving its software and maybe then gamers wouldnt have to resort to using fan created software in order to enjoy their games.

The frame rate on TotK is fucking terrible, I feel like im spazing out and missing 2-3 seconds playing the game, you can litrally see how bad it is just moving the main character.

Customers should be entitled to enforce their consumer legal rights and counter nintendo, force them to recall this pile of crap DLC and on title and make them fix the game so it can actually run and perform on a level that is how the game should be.

But end of the day we all know the reason why nintendo cant even run its own games, because they're cheap cunts that keep recycling inferior hardware and slap a gimmick on to fool the fanboys into thinking the console is something "innovative".

Id rather shove these gimmicks up their arse and have hardware that can actually play games as intended and actually enable third parties to support it with its current titles, not be a port whore machine with everything nintendo FAILED to get first time round.

We DO NOT buy consoles to play games WE ALREADY OWN, I dont give a crap if the console could suck me off or do the house chores.... you buy consoles to play games end of!!

Nintendo have gotten that lazy that they have litrally done fuck all in terms of the switch, they have litrally ported every fucking old title they can think of, even its PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE offers fuck all, but, yup, you guessed it, more OLD SHIT PORTED.

when you look at what everyone else is doing, then look at nintendo, ONLY the fanboys can sit there and actually defend nintendo, personally I dont even understand how or even why people are even investing into this shit.

Seriously, who the fuck is that stupid to think anything nintendo offer and do these days is actually worth the ridiculous price they charge.

They should be forced to improve the quality of its games, consoles and services that crying to the legal system and trying to claim millions in damages.

When fact is no damage has been caused, gamers should be entitled to actually enjoy their games and be able to play them at its fullest, nintendos official hardware is not fit for its purpose, fan created software is able to run switch games better than the official hardware weeks before its officially released.

So that has to say alot, fan created software can run and play a game better than the intended hardware weeks before it is even released.

Where the fuck has consumer laws disappeared to, when a product has to be of a high standard that is fit for purpose, what happened to this bullshit official nintendo seal of quality.

That bullshit seal of quality that nintendo charged to use thats sole purpose was to ensure customers that when buying nintendo licensed software, that this seal of quality means and ensures that this game has passed all checks to make sure that this software is at the highest quality.

But we find nintendo dont even uphold to these standards that they themselves fucking set.

So fuck nintendo, we dont need them anymore, they're like a cancer to the gaming industry, they have gotten away for too long raping consumers out of hard earned cash having to re purchase the same old recycled shit over and over and over again.

They should be forced to catch up with todays standards in hardware and make its hardware capable of allowing third parties to release its current titles and be designed to do so for the remaining expected life of the console.

Not some cheap nasty gimmick crap that basically just capable of running the last generation console games.

But no, we dont live in the real world anymore, the world we live in is that those with money are able to do as they wish and when we the consumer want to enjoy a superior experience, nintendo can spit their pacifiers out and cry like little cunts to the judge and demand they shut this shit down and then claim millions in damages.

I bet not one single £1 is handed to third parties who have become victim to so called exploits that nintendo have done fuck all to prevent and ensure its console software is safe, I dont get how they get to earn £14m in damages when all nintendo have done is recycle and port its old shit that has already had its time on the market and made its money.

Just nintendo are gready lazy cunts that just want to milk everything to the last drop that they can.

Meanwhile the gaming industry yet again zooms past nintendo as they continue to fail to provide the basics of todays gaming industry norms.
That's a loooong wall of bullshit.
 

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That's a loooong wall of bullshit.
except it's all true if your not wearing FANBOY blinders. the game is so fucking bad it should be called Zelda Tiers of the FRAMERATE. and they know all this they knew the game would run like shit from the start but like always you loyal fucking brain washed sheep will still buy it and it will still make millions for these greedy c***s who are WORSE than apple now all this dmca bullshit over a mediocre game because it has fucking zelda in the title. that's whats wrong with gaming these days good games get ignored and shelved while shit like this gets to sell and be popular all because of conformity :glare:
 
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except it's all true if your not wearing FANBOY blinders. the game is so fucking bad it should be called Zelda Tiers of the FRAMERATE. and they know all this they knew the game would run like shit from the start but like always you loyal fucking brain washed sheep will still buy it and it will still make millions for these greedy c***s who are WORSE than apple now all this dmca bullshit over a mediocre game because it has fucking zelda in the title. that's whats wrong with gaming these days good games get ignored and shelved while shit like this gets to sell and be popular all because of conformity :glare:
From the various posts the impression is generally people are fairly happy with the game.

IMO the game is not bad.

Game loading speed is fair. Much better than most game.

Graphics and frame rate is good enough to make the game enjoyable.

The make ugly toy part can be skip for the most part with moon jump

Taking so long to make so few games is disappointing
 

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except it's all true if your not wearing FANBOY blinders. the game is so fucking bad it should be called Zelda Tiers of the FRAMERATE. and they know all this they knew the game would run like shit from the start but like always you loyal fucking brain washed sheep will still buy it and it will still make millions for these greedy c***s who are WORSE than apple now all this dmca bullshit over a mediocre game because it has fucking zelda in the title. that's whats wrong with gaming these days good games get ignored and shelved while shit like this gets to sell and be popular all because of conformity :glare:
All I hear these days are thieves trying to act like Jesus.
 

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All I hear these days are thieves trying to act like Jesus.
Do you mean those that played every Nintendo game while telling others how much they hated it? Those are die hard fans who has developed a Nintendo dependency that they can't escape from. They are confused between love and hate.
 

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Where's the year 90s Nintendo? Was much better without all the bullcrap.
Also the 2000s were good. Even the Wii's barebones emulators were good and even way better than they use on Switch with Switch online. I must say DS emulation was really good on the Wii U.

It's 2023 now, where's the GlideN64 like plugin for your N64 emulator on Switch, Nintendo? They still use a Rice like plugin. Easily noticeable on the HUD in Super Mario 64. Such inaccurate bullcrap for 2023...

Hope all those DMCA's are inaccurate.
 

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Some of the posts in this thread are hilarious. It might be bad for pirates but Nintendo wanting to nuke projects that enable piracy or at the very least break their TOS doesn’t seem unreasonable.

Also, a thread full of weirdly angry posts threatening to boycott them is going to achieve precisely nothing when I would bet that 90%+ of Switch users aren’t even aware of Switch piracy at all, and only a small proportion of those who are aware actually care lol
 

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