{"id":64956,"date":"2024-10-01T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=88f9a09e0c84c95ad7c42e9e1e2f96d2"},"modified":"2024-10-01T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:37:12","slug":"switch-emulator-ryujinx-shuts-down-development-after-contact-by-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=64956","title":{"rendered":"Switch emulator Ryujinx shuts down development after \u201ccontact by Nintendo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2053765\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: The fact that the system is _clearly_ \"You can stop your probably-legal-by-precedent activity, or we can ruin you with legal bills.\" is really distasteful.<\/div><p>Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Ryujinx\/Ryujinx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed from GitHub<\/a>, and the team behind it has reportedly ceased development of the project after apparent discussions with Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>Ryujinx developer <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/riperiperi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">riperiperi<\/a> writes on the project's Discord server <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyujinxEmu\/status\/1841188744126480428\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and social media<\/a> that fellow developer gdkchan was \"contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he's in control of.\" While the final outcome of that negotiation is not yet public, riperiperi reports that \"the organization has been removed\" (presumably from GitHub) and thus \"I think it's safe to say what the outcome is.\"<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/ryujinx.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Ryujinx website is still up<\/a> as of this writing, the download page and other links to GitHub-hosted information from that website no longer function. The developers behind the project have not posted a regular progress report update <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ryujinx.org\/progress-report-january-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since January<\/a> after posting similar updates <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ryujinx.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">almost every month throughout 2023<\/a>. Before today, the Ryujinx social media account last posted an announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyujinxEmu\/status\/1763916049647382644\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in March<\/a>.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2024\/10\/switch-emulator-ryujinx-shuts-down-development-after-contact-by-nintendo\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2024\/10\/switch-emulator-ryujinx-shuts-down-development-after-contact-by-nintendo\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=64956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}