TL;DR
- A representative for Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to every Switch emulator on GitHub.
- Switch emulator repositories are still up, but likely not for long.
- Active projects are still hosted outside GitHub, but they may be harder to find in the future.
After shutting down Yuzu and Ryujinx last year, Nintendo has been surprisingly hands-off when it comes to the many forks that cropped up last year. That period of peace has now come to an end, with the company sending DMCA notices to literally every Nintendo Switch emulator and fork that’s currently hosted on GitHub.
The notice was sent yesterday and includes Eden, Citron, Kenji-NX, and MeloNX, as well as projects that are no longer active, such as Sudachi and Skyline. As of writing, the repositories are still online, but it likely won’t be long before they are removed from the website.