"Nintendo's fired off a new volley of legal notices against the Switch emulation scene. Close to a dozen GitHub pages were hit with DMCA takedown requests over the weekend. However, while several of the Nintendo Switch GitHub pages have given in to Nintendo's demands, the development team behind the Eden emulator has boldly refused. Instead, they proceed with publishing a new v0.2.0 build of the Eden Switch emulator on GitHub just days later."
"You may remember that, , Yuzu and Ryujinx, the two most well-known Switch emulators, were subject to legal takedown notices from Nintendo back in 2024 following a massive million dollar settlement. Nintendo's crackdown on the Switch emulation scene scattered homebrew efforts to various, less easily accessed corners of the internet. But the cat and mouse game has continued over the years, and Nintendo is once again trying to prune back grassroots efforts to reverse-engineer its most popular console ever."
"Effectively, as founder of Eden, I can say that we want to keep continuing the work in the preservation of videogames, allowing game owners to benefit from this beyond their original hardware. Since this is a community-driven project, we always look to provide the best result possible for all; yet, we're never sure of what the future can bring, so we're always trying"
Nintendo issued DMCA takedown requests against nearly a dozen GitHub pages linked to Switch emulation. Several Switch-related GitHub projects complied with the takedowns, but the Eden emulator team refused and published a new v0.2.0 build on GitHub days later. Yuzu and Ryujinx faced legal action in 2024 after a large settlement, which pushed many homebrew and preservation efforts into harder-to-access spaces. Many newer emulators are forks of Yuzu or Ryujinx, and Eden is a Yuzu fork. Eden's founder stated a focus on videogame preservation and a readiness to resist future legal challenges.
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