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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Guess what? This will make them stronger. Suyu's GitLab repo was already DMCA'd, after that they set up their own Forgejo instance. They also get their website running again (It was down for a few days, I don't know the reason) and they're now strong and independent. Moving away from Discord will only increase their independence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if the codeberg site is vulnerable to such laws. I think they operate from the EU.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

They're based in Germany, so it should be fine. But I think they said at some point that they don't want any trouble with DMCA code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Germany specifically

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Suyu died though. Right now the only actively maintained Yuzu fork is Sudachi, which is only maintained by a single person.

Apparently there was some drama about the Yuzu devs using code which came from a switch SDK as a basis for emulator code, which kind of poisons the whole codebase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Suyu died though.

What makes you think so?

Apparently there was some drama about the Yuzu devs using code which came from a switch SDK as a basis for emulator code, which kind of poisons the whole codebase.

But if this was in Yuzu, it's also present in every other fork, right? Also, was this a leaked Nintendo SDK or something 3rd-party?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What makes you think so?

The devs said so. Check r/Suyu, that seems to be where a majority of the updates are being posted. I think there was a link to a pastebin post somewhere there as well.

The SDK mentioned was first party, presumably leaked but I'm not completely sure. And yes, that means it would be present in every other fork as well.

Edit: here are some of the links I'm talking about:

https://www.reddit.com/r/suyu/s/TqSWDlnsGs

https://pastebin.com/6FYdz9Sr

Edit 2: worth noting that the "founder" (as they call themself) still wants to continue on the project but I believe a majority of the devs left.

Edit 3: I found the archive link from someone on the Yuzu team showing they had access to a leaked switch SDK: https://web.archive.org/web/20210114104638/https://twitter.com/Slashiee_/status/1349557173970341890

I don't know how much of this evidence is real but if any of it is they're going to have a much harder time finding devs willing to contribute to Suyu, even if development does continue.