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)

 

[DragonMals]

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

 

[Scarlet]

My Lord they didn’t waste any time with that one lol

 

[Levi_Mycah]

What comes next taken down?? Ryujinx?

 

[SkittleDash]

They've already moved it to git.suyu.dev. They are committed, that's for sure. lol

Edit: Never mind, just realized it's a mirror. lmao

 

[The Catboy]

Imagine if Nintendo was this fast at dealing with other issues.

 

[K3Nv4]

The what?

 

[Ericzander]

I'm not entirely sure what they expected would happen.

 

[Bladexdsl]

i'll just quote what i said earlier

Suyu better watch their back because nintendo might SUE YOU

 

[smilodon]

Fork vultures are too eager to copy paste existing repos and pose as saviors when they actually don't understand anything about what they are doing.

 

[Lostbhoy]

I mean, they literally shouted from the rooftops directly on the back of the Yuzu case... What did they expect?

 

[DragonMals]

I decided to join in the server to see what's going on literally everywhere is activity LMFAO

 

[Kioku]

Imagine if Nintendo was this fast at dealing with other issues.

What... the switch not stable enough for you?

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I'm not entirely sure what they expected would happen.

I'm sure some of these forks and clones knew they'd be a target.

 

[The Catboy]

What... the switch not stable enough for you?

The Switch is more stable than my mental health but still lacks any reason to pick it up

 

[Xzi]

Why did people think that making another Yuzu fork was going to revive the emulator...

Because there's no Nintendo code in it and nothing that violates copyright law. This is just GitLab being cowards and refusing to hold firm against a bogus DMCA. Nintendo should not have the power to bully hosting sites in this manner.

 

[DragonMals]

Because there's no Nintendo code in it and nothing that violates copyright law. This is just GitLab being cowards and refusing to hold firm against a bogus DMCA. Nintendo should not have the power to bully hosting sites in this manner.

I see. I still think that supporting emulators of still released consoles are a bad idea. I'm more mad about Citra then Yuzu/Suyu getting taken down.

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Because there's no Nintendo code in it and nothing that violates copyright law. This is just GitLab being cowards and refusing to hold firm against a bogus DMCA. Nintendo should not have the power to bully hosting sites in this manner.

I see. From what the people are saying in the sevrer, the DMCA takedown notice might be fake.

 

[Xzi]

I still think that supporting emulators of still released consoles are a bad idea.

Typically I'd agree, if we were talking about a console with modern hardware. Since Nintendo is trying to compete with ninth generation consoles using seventh generation hardware, however, I don't see an issue in emulating Switch for the purposes of improving performance and/or graphical fidelity.

 

[Kioku]

Typically I'd agree, if we were talking about a console with modern hardware. Since Nintendo is trying to compete with ninth generation consoles using seventh generation hardware, however, I don't see an issue in emulating Switch for the purposes of improving performance and/or graphical fidelity.

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.

 

[DragonMals]

Typically I'd agree, if we were talking about a console with modern hardware.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. And I even agree with you as to improve the experiences of modern switch games. For pirating them though? Do that to the older games. If you're pirating games that still can be bought from the store, then you're not a pirate, you're just someone who wants to get free games

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

What comes next taken down?? Ryujinx?

You see that project is actually well managed.