Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune. - Nintendo legal team go brrrr.

[SmallKiwi]

For them to try this now the Ryujinx code must be a good enough starting point for a Switch 2 emulator for it to be a problem for Nintendo.

It's still far behind Yuzu. It's quite slow in comparison.

 

[Unremarkable Anus Lover]

Shitendo obviously tried to find something illegal in the Ryujinx source code and came up empty. They might even have offered a position at the company in exchange for voluntarily taking it down.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

It's still far behind Yuzu. It's quite slow in comparison.

A faster emulator can be that way because of hack-y (often per-game) workarounds that end up being detrimental in the long term, compared to more robust, accurate solutions that eventually make the emulation better across the entire library of games in the long term.

That's happened with quite a lot of emulators over the years that ended up falling by the wayside. So comparative speed today is not a guaranteed indicator of how mature an emulator is.

 

[Unremarkable Anus Lover]

A faster emulator can be that way because of hack-y (often per-game) workarounds that end up being detrimental in the long term, compared to more robust, accurate solutions that eventually make the emulation better across the entire library of games in the long term.

That's happened with quite a lot of emulators over the years that ended up falling by the wayside. So comparative speed today is not a guaranteed indicator of how mature an emulator is.

I mean jesus fuck, look at Project64. The most hacky pile of shit on the planet and it took a long time for people to put serious effort into accurate N64 emulation.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

For them to try this now the Ryujinx code must be a good enough starting point for a Switch 2 emulator for it to be a problem for Nintendo.

An early theory about their attack on Yuzu was that since all Switch 1 games should be backwards compatible with Switch 2 but running better on the more powerful console, Nintendo wanted to squash the emulation scene now. "Run your Switch games at 1080p or heavily upscaled to 4K!" hits less hard when you have YouTubers showing off PC emulated Switch games at 8K with ReShade raytracing (silly as the results may be).

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I mean jesus fuck, look at Project64. The most hacky pile of shit on the planet and it took a long time for people to put serious effort into accurate N64 emulation.

An even dramatic example was UltraHLE, which emulated a few popular N64 games at good speeds way back at the beginning of 1999, but was structured in such a way that it ONLY worked for those games.

 

[Unremarkable Anus Lover]

An even dramatic example was UltraHLE, which emulated a few popular N64 games at good speeds way back at the beginning of 1999, but was structured in such a way that it ONLY worked for those games.

Yes, I'm not sure how feasible any sort of "accurate" emulation would have been during those days though. The MIPS R4000 is notoriously hard to emulate and I'm surprised they even managed to get it working as well as it did.

 

[Squishie PP]

For them to try this now the Ryujinx code must be a good enough starting point for a Switch 2 emulator for it to be a problem for Nintendo.

The Switch 2 is planned to be based on NVIDIA's Tegra 239 processor: https://www.tomsguide.com/gaming/ni...leaks-reveal-new-design-and-big-news-on-specs
The original Switch is based on an older Tegra architecture, so you are absolutely correct that a Switch emulator will require little modification to work with the Switch 2 games.

Though I am guessing that the Switch 2 may be delayed or encounter other economic issues due to recent events regarding the Siege of the Sibelco Quartz Mines.

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

Nintendo is worse than Sony and Microsoft

Definitely.

But the games are reliably orders of magnitude better. Makes for a real conundrum.

 

[Battlefield42]

Some autist probably has the source somewhere, I expect another emulator to crop up sometime soon.

Im retarded but i have the bundle files i got from a very recently forked mirror.
If anyone autistic enough wants the code, shoot me a pm.

 

[Grub]

I don't really care too much about ryujinx and it sounds like the dev was bribed rather than threatened but I was pretty bummed out when yuzu got taken down. I was using it to play all the metroidvania games I'd missed in recent years on my phone. Blasphemous and animal well and shit like that.

But emulator devs these days are fucking retarded. Emulating switch games requires shit bordering on illegal even if the emulators themselves aren't technically illegal. Nintendo is a nasty, litigious company and always has been. Shit like that needs to be kept discrete and non-traceable to any specific person or people. It should be treated like doing something sketchy and illegal, even if it's technically not. Emulator devs have always had a problem with the whole "well actually it's technically not illegal so fuck you I'll do what I want." attitude but they push it these days with their patreon and bragging on youtube shit. Nobody can just keep things a quiet but well known secret these days and it's going to fuck things up for everybody if they keep pushing these companies by doing dumb shit.

 

[Professor G. Raff]

Nintendo is worse than Sony and Microsoft

Whoa whoa whoa. Nintendo is being shitty, but let's not be retarded. Xbox won't exist in a generation because they suck so much at everything, and Sony is just a constant barrage of the stupidest shit ever. Nintendo makes actually good games you can pirate even if you don't like them using old versions of the discontinued emulators they tried to get rid of, but the other 2 don't even have anything worth pirating.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Whoa whoa whoa. Nintendo is being shitty, but let's not be retarded. Xbox won't exist in a generation because they suck so much at everything, and Sony is just a constant barrage of the stupidest shit ever. Nintendo makes actually good games you can pirate even if you don't like them using old versions of the discontinued emulators they tried to get rid of, but the other 2 don't even have anything worth pirating.

Nintendo just rereleases its games with new coat of paint while actively preventing access to old games (or reselling them with a full price tag). Just compare fan reception to closing the Vita PSN store and closing the 3DS store for the scale of the insanity.

At least I can use the other two consoles as a glorified PC, I haven't touched the Switch in a year because even playing Visual Novels is better on the Steam where they have actual discounts (seriously, Nintendo's Store is the most greedy shit I've seen, and is just terrible to parse through).

 

[big pauper]

the thing about this is the guy is from brazil where emulation shit is legal, and everything there is hosted there so nintendo would get a "lmao get rekt" response if they tried something, so this mustve been a deal where they paid him a decent amount of cash to stop working on this emulator.

if this guy doesn't leak all of the source code a week after the checks clear and claim that he got his laptop stolen a week prior to making the deal then he's a fucking retard

 

[30+GameOvers]

I don't follow the emulation scene that much, but what does this actually mean? If the emulator is working to an agreeable standard and it was publicly available for years, Nintendo can't do shit about it. People will just share the link for anyone interested.
How far along is Switch emulation?

 

[Am I Very Wrong]

I don't follow the emulation scene that much, but what does this actually mean? If the emulator is working to an agreeable standard and it was publicly available for years, Nintendo can't do shit about it. People will just share the link for anyone interested.
How far along is Switch emulation?

As a consumer, it's basically perfect. You can play anything you want better than it runs on the switch, new Zelda title included. It's likely to disencourage the development of future emulators and to keep selling old switch games in the future.
It's only a problem if this becomes a trend, which seems to be the case

 

[ARealLifeSoyjak]

Praying to god that Switch 2 emulation goes underground. I'd be pissed if I had to play Nintendo's games at 30fps on a cheap tablet again, all because some retards thought it'd be a good idea to scream from the rooftops about their shiny new emulation project.

 

[geckogoy]

Praying to god that Switch 2 emulation goes underground. I'd be pissed if I had to play Nintendo's games at 30fps on a cheap tablet again, all because some retards thought it'd be a good idea to scream from the rooftops about their shiny new emulation project.

Good news, the secret switch 2 emulator already exists and runs great, however its a secret so I cant share it with you

 

[revenge of rebecca]

So uh, when will @Null fork the source code and host it on kiwifarms for kiwifarms to continue development of the emulator?

Okay, I am being a little silly. But I mean, we can talk all we want about how this sucks, how the developers should have developed anonymously on the dark web, or whatever. But it comes to nothing unless a complainer stops complaining and starts taking action.

 

[megafag]

So uh, when will @Null fork the source code and host it on kiwifarms for kiwifarms to continue development of the emulator?

Okay, I am being a little silly. But I mean, we can talk all we want about how this sucks, how the developers should have developed anonymously on the dark web, or whatever. But it comes to nothing unless a complainer stops complaining and starts taking action.

NO SHIT WE SHOULD CONTINUE DEVELOPMENT

also we have to stay vigilant if any other emulators get struck. archiving emulators on kiwi farms is a good idea since nintendos legal team is no match for autism since we've won several lawsuits already in terms of archiving information and media

if Citra can survive this bullshit from Nintendo by archiving relentlessly, Ryujinx can too