Nintendo’s legal action against emulators continues yet again, as new DMCA takedown notices have been handed to several Ryujinx forks on Github.
Back in October, 2024, Nintendo went after the creator of the Ryujinx emulator, gdkchan, who was residing in Brasil, and pressured the developer to taken down all assets related to the Switch emulator, alongside the organization in charge of the project. While no court action was taken, it’s still uncertain to this day what the actual interchange between the two parties was to reach such resolution.
This was an entirely different motion from what happened with the Yuzu emulator, in which Tropic Haze ended up paying 2+ millions and closing down the whole organization after an agreement with Nintendo on court grounds.
Despite no legal action being taken against Ryujinx, Nintendo took it upon themselves to see that as a free canvas to start issuing DMCA takedowns for any Ryujinx fork existing on Github’s repositories, under the same premise as with Yuzu, with the cryptographic keys and anti-circumvention complaints being issued to take down any existing fork of Ryujinx.
