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After Yuzu got shut down I'm not sure what this leaves people with for switch emulators. I'm going to try and find archives and will update the post when I do.

Last windows build: archive.org

Slightly older, but has linux and mac builds archive.org

Okay there we go, a github mirror: https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx

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[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 82 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

From the Ryujinx subreddit:

Slurpy2k17:

And that piece of trash GDKChan just instantly took the deal and shut everything down? Zero announcement, zero warning, zero consultation with the team, zero consideration for everyone who used the product. What a fucking sellout.

isaa6:

Hi. I'm a former Ryujinx dev. They showed up at his house. I guarantee it was not a fun deal for gdk.

Holy shit, Nintendo is sending goons to people's houses. Reminder- this dude is Brazilian which is why people were fairly confident Nintendo wouldn't be able to pull off what they did with the US-based Yuzu, so instead they sent legal muscle to Brazil to personally intimidate him

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nintendo taking the Coca-Cola route of sending death squads to people's homes

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Were they dressed as Koopas, I wonder thonk

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They were dressed as Goombas from the Mario movie (1993).

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

The last thing you see after you develop a Switch emulator

[–] amberSuperMario@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They did the same thing to a hacker in the 3DS scene years ago, I wouldn't be surprised if they followed the same plan even.

https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-conducted-invasive-surveillance-operation-against-homebrew-hacker-201223/

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh wow, the plumber does NOT fuck around what-the-hell

Look at this fucking flowchart

This is like some Pinkerton shit

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whole lot of effort to convey the idea of "We're going to meet up, go to some guys house to harass them, then if they say no, go get a lawyer".

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Operator brain admiral-biederman

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Link to the comment
Their post history suggests that they do work on emulators so this is probably true

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Even if they had "sold out" I wouldn't blame them for a minute, because that's clearly a plato o plomo situation.

[–] git@hexbear.net 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lends further credibility to the idea that Switch 2 is just a souped up Switch. They don’t want 100% of the launch library playable on day one with some minor changes to the emulator. I guess we can expect an announcement soon.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd assume it's a new generation of the Nvidia chip they're using in the switch? It makes sense not to change it too much

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

There was rumor that it would be fully backwards compatible with the switch library

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everything cool needs to be hosted as a hidden service on tor and funded by monero.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think you can make emulators that are as nice as Ryujinx/RPCS3/Dolphin the same way you make cracked Android apps

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well apparently you can't make emulators that are as nice as Ryujinx/RPCS3/Dolphin anymore anyway, so there's your options. Tor is easily capable of handling some git servers and forums. Plus the more people that use Tor and Monero the safer and more anonymous they become.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know, I'm just saying that sort of environment is going to attract much less developers

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only game in town can become popular pretty fast.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The dynamic would be very different. Emulation development has become seen as a safe and fulfilling hobby and side project for talented developers. If it was treated more akin to cracking Photoshop there'd be way less people lining up to have a go at it

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

#MakeHackingCoolAgain

[–] brainw0rms@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

where's all the smartasses that were dunking on yuzu devs for accepting money, because they surely would have been left alone otherwise?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had a Nintendo themed birthday party for my 7 year old and their Kyoto headquarters called my local police department and shut it down. Now I'm 15 grand in debt because I had a hacked PS2 running Super Mario World via emulation.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

scumbag behavior

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Fuck. This is a sad day for gaming. Kicking myself for not keeping my local clone of the repository up-to-date, but as you say I'm sure it's out there.

The emulation scene is really going to have to figure out a reliable and reproducible way to work on these projects while keeping out of reach of Nintendo's lawyers, since it doesn't seem like the whack-a-mole is ever going to stop.

[–] princeofsin@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

this is a actual reason for "learn to code". I wish I wasnt stupid kitty-birthday-sad

Emulation development is also famously difficult and not the best thing to start with

[–] Sausage@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

You’re not stupid, coding is a skill like everything else that can be learned. I’m stupid as well and I’m learning it now.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Emulation specifically is wickedly hard and there's a reason basically every emulator has a team of dozens to hundreds of contributors and is in active development rather than capable of perfect emulation

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Eh, it isn't black magic. It's just very labor intensive to nail down the broadest degree of compatibility possible. Requires tons of testing, and eternal vigilance against regressions (i.e. fixing one game breaks another). The fundamental concepts are well documented, and often times already available in generic implementations (CPU emulators / JIT recompilers / OpenGL / Vulkan implementations / compatibility layers, input libraries, etc). A project like WINE (famously not an emulator) is a lot more complex than a virtual machine which just runs the official binary system firmware.

Not to say it is easy, but it is an interesting subject with tons of literature and free software implementations to study. It has a lot of moving parts, but part of doing effective software development is understanding you don't need to roll your own JIT recompiler when llvm and gcc-jit exist. Most contributors will specialize more or less in one thing (cpu architecture / graphics / audio / networking / debugging / reverse engineering / etc).

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah. It's not easy, but if you're a competent assembly programmer it's all fairly straightforward at the theory level.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Dang, I've been firing up Ryujinx regularly to update it just in case this happens. Hadn't done it in a few weeks- my current version is 1.1.1385 and Ryujinx just gave me a github error when I launched it just now.

rat-salute-2 in advance for finding those archives. I was going to ask if they ever updated the separate ldn build that I used to play Mario Kart with friends but then I realised those servers are now dead agony-deep

Edit: Thanks! Ryujinx updated- I also went ahead and updated Dolphin because I have a bad feeling about this scared

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

"offered an agreement"

godfather_horsehead.jpg

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The switch is on its way out so this isn't a huge loss, the latest version of Ryujinx will play damn near everything on the console. Could be bad for switch 2 emulation though

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Still possible we get another breath of the wild type release, a big title launching on both platforms. Definitely bad for switch 2 emulation, I had hope in them for that.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It didn't have the best performance compared to Yuzu though. It was catching up but smothered in it's prime :(

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Depended on the game in my experience. I haven't emulated any switch games in the last couple years though

[–] Teils13@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 1 week ago

The code of the last version must be available to find, it probably runs most of the games. Yuzu and Riujinx legacy must be continued, but on other places, not corporate controlled ones (Both countries and platforms).

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If anyone ever digs up the source, hopefully they push it to something like https://radicle.xyz/ so it can't be taken down

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The source is here! I'm not familiar with radicle, but if you are uploading seems like a good idea.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Nice! I've downloaded it just in case and I'll probably throw it up on Radicle later unless someone beats me to it

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

How's Suyu going? Nintendo is fucked up beyond all recognition sending goons to a guy's house for daring to make an emulator for their shitbox proprietary slop

[–] Luna@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Shit. Hopefully the emulator itself will be able to keep up with new game releases. Maybe other devs can pick up on what was established...

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Do we have hashes anywhere to verify that installer?

Ended up just building it myself--actually super fast and painless, much to my surprise. Literally just updated my .NET SDK, ran the build command and it finished in under a minute.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it just me or does their download page not work anymore? Also, kinda funny Nintendo is going balls out at the end of the console's lifecycle lol

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They pulled downloads immediately, the archive links should work. If they don't I can upload when I get back home in a few hours.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Someone here posted a git and I got it already