Switch Ryujinx emulator halts development after ‘contact from Nintendo’

It was the popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx Removed from GitHubThe team behind it is said to have stopped developing the project after clear discussions with Nintendo.

Developer of Reogenix com. ripriperi He writes on the project’s Discord server And social media This fellow developer gdkchan was “contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to cease work on the project and remove the organization and all related assets he controls.” While the final outcome of those negotiations has not yet been announced, RepairBerry reported that “the organization has been removed” (presumably from GitHub) and so “I think it’s safe to say what the outcome is.”

while The Ryujinx website is still open As of this writing, the download page and other links to information hosted on GitHub from this website are no longer working. The developers behind the project have not published a regular progress report update Since January After publishing similar updates Nearly every month throughout 2023. Before today, Ryujinx’s social media account last posted an announcement In March.

Followers of the Switch emulation scene may remember that March was also when the makers of the Yuzu emulator paid $2.4 million to settle a lawsuit with Nintendo over a project that Nintendo claimed “facilitated piracy on a massive scale.”

What’s left?

The Suyu Switch emulator, which emerged as a “legal gray area” for the Yuzu branch shortly after Suyu was removed – is It is still available on its self-hosted servers As of this writing (although Project Latest stable release He is now six months old.) Nintendo previously targeted Suyu’s GitLab hosting with a DMCA takedown and later took down the project’s official Discord server with a similar request. Another notable yuzu fork, sodachi, was It was removed from GitHub in July Via a DMCA request.

In the wake of those legal efforts against other Switch emulator developers, the Ryujinx developers posted an automated message on their Discord server in response to any questions about Ryujinx’s ultimate fate. “Nothing happened to Reogenex,” the letter said. “We know nothing more than you do. No doom.”

Riperiperi reports that development will now hinge on a “working Android port” of the emulator, which isn’t ready for release yet, as well as a technical beta for iOS that will likely still be “fresh” due to Apple just rolling it out. Time compilation limitations. The developers were also working on updates that It would have allowed wired local multiplayer connections between Ryujinx and real Switch devices.

“Although I won’t be staying in the Switch scene either, I still believe in the simulation as a whole, and I hope other developers won’t be dissuaded,” wrote Riperiberry in the project’s Discord. “The future of game conservation depends on individuals, and perhaps one day it will be properly recognized.”

According to the developers“, “As of May 2024, Ryujinx [had] Tested on approximately 4,300 titles; More than 4100 boot[ed] Previous lists and in gameplay, with approximately 3,550 of them considered playable.