Nintendo has successfully wiped out over 400 Nintendo Switch emulation repos as it continues its long-standing fight against piracy. The Kyoto-based company eliminated the Suyu emulator, several Yuzu forks, Skyline and more. Torrent Freak reports that Nintendo filed seven separate DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub targeting a variety of Switch emulator repositories and their forks. Nintendo says that the reason for doing is that emulators exist to bypass the encryption that protects its games.
Thanks to Edward B for sending in the news tip!
Maybe they should stop producing those damn Game Key Cards then.
Ah yes, you don’t want digital but want an emulator because those have a lot of physical…
The crying about gamekeycards is hilarious and brings the dumbest online
Almost like there are multiple different mindsets instead of just you vs everyone else. Hard for your tiny brain to comprehend, I know. But you enjoy paying the same price for less value and wonder why you have nothing saved when it’s time to retire.
Exactly. Game key cards is still being criticize today and gamers are still not happy with it.
Again it’s because of PIRATES LIKE YOU that Nintendo implemented Keycards in the first place. You merely PROVE Nintendo’s point. Also since you don’t pay attention, Nintendo THEMSELVES don’t even use their own Keycards, it’s the majority third party devs that do.
all these spineless sissies defending nintendo… smfh
only incels with tiny wiiwii (like u) do not defend the companies
Grow up, will ya?
Key cards don’t stop piracy. Nintendo knows this.
I’m not even a pirate. Stop blaming people on random crap.
I dont see how key cards are a fight again piracy… Its simply the cheapest form of a “physical” game. When i mod my switch and it has a digital game on i can still dump it and later decrypt it. Its doesnt matter how i got the game…
Yeah, ‘cause large companies don’t control emulations the same way they control the content you download through game key cards.
They wanna own their games.
It’s not THEIR games, it’s the artists’ games. Nintendo and the game industry in general anonymizes their creators to such a degree that we all take for granted that large corporations “own” their “products”.
The reality is that games are a part of our cultural heritage, and need to be curated and preserved independently of large, soulless, corruptible corporations.
Th3n stop being a loser Cheapskate & BUY Nintendo games LEGALLY on their hardware. Nintendo does the Keycard thing BECAUSE OF PIRATES LIKE YOU!!
It’s been proven repeatedly through good game developers on Steam that pirating is the result of bad pricing and business decisions. When games are reasonably priced, good quality, available and not at risk of being ripped away from players. Those games have always seen far less pirates. Like with Palworld. Nintendo gets pirated because they put out slop for AAA prices and cut legacy support and supply for games. To the point they even try to cripple the 2nd hand game market.
Firstly, I don’t agree with Nintendo’s aggressive policies and crusades to eliminate ways of enjoying games for their current and past devices.
But, in regards to Nintendo killing the second-hand market…
Of all three of the current major players in that market, Nintendo are the only ones giving an option for digital distribution to be presented as a true alternative to physical.
Although I don’t like the idea of a physical ‘key’ becoming worthless and unusable by the littoral press of a button by the publisher… it does offer those who pay for said digital key to trade, sell or even give that access to someone else with all of the ‘value’ of the game intact.
If $ony and Micro$oft get their own way then the used market is dead before the next generation is even here.
If you don’t like key cards… just buy the digital copy directly.
No they don’t, retard.
Stop pirating and save $250,000. It’s what you do. If you want to save 15% or more on your butthurt, you switch to using common sense. It’s what you do.
There were over 400 switch emulators? I thought there were 10.
He means sources that Seed/are sharing them with other people.
I thought so myself but it seems like they made a whole bunch.
Good, I hate pirates that continue to do this to currently available & supported hardware. Stop being a cheapskate & BUY the Nintendo system to play its games!! And to ANYONE that’s CRYING over the GameKeycard decision Nintendo went with…THIS IS FREAKING WHY!! So stop with your PATHETIC Strawman argument & understand that YOUR PIRACY OF NINTENDO GAMES IS TO BLAME!! If you cheapskates didn’t STEAL/PIRATE currently sold & supported Nintendo games then they wouldn’t have to do the Keycard thing.
Its fully Nintendo’s fault for going after emulators. Nintendo was in the wrong to go after Emulators and I am hoping people can upload them in a legal server in certain countries where its legal to protest against them. Trying to defend a billion dollar corporation because of the choices some bad apples made is unprofessional.
Also GKC unlikely has anything to do with this. If it was then why are most first party games still true physical?
Just to be clear, I meant to say that by “where its legal to protest against them”, I meant where its legal to upload the emulators like a country where it does not forbid that kind of stuff.
No, you’re uneducated about this whole thing & that’s your problem. Nintendo does this in response to Piracy, they always have.
How the hell is it Nintendo’s fault, arse pirate?
Can you be more of a corporate bootlicking bot? Oh, no, some people are angry at my favourite company, I must go online at rage and protect the honour of a company that doesn’t give a shit about me.
Pathetic.
Is it possible for you to be more of an immoral, thieving failure of a person? No one cares that you’re jobless, broke & will steal to play games. You’re still the one at fault here for pirating.
I feel like you should replace ‘piracy’ with ’emulation’ ot ’emulators’ in title unless im missing something, as emulation is not the same as choosing to download new games illegally.
Emulation =/= piracy or choosing to leak TotK.
I find it beyond comical people defending Nintendo when piracy is such a small problem and is completely separate from emulation. If they cant afford the game, then wouldn’t buy it, if they dont think the game is good enough, they wouldn’t buy it. Nintendo never lost a sale. If you think complaining about a companies bad decision is annoying then what do these people think complaining about people complaining is lol. Anyways, the files will be reuploaded elsewhere it’s really just a waste of everyone’s time.
After a bit of thinking and after the debacle with Sony, piracy is actually starting to look viable, counteractive to what’s right. If companies choose to ignore the wants of its customers, and views us as “below them”, then pushback is the obvious choice at that point. If they get hurt, they try to justify their actions and do nothing for the consumer. At this point of time, they forced a lot of people’s hands to do the wrong thing.
But there are still idiots who think that emulation and piracy don’t make companies lose money?!
No, only you do, because they don’t selll those old games anyway. Nintendo and friends lick them up in limbo and only rent them to people, but people want to own stuff.
“You will owe nothing and be happy” will do the opposite for companies, because “we won’t pay for your products and you will go broke.”
For some reason, I really don’t know what’s the point for them having emulators in order to bypass any companies regulations base on their IPs.