Suyu: A Nintendo Switch emulator for hardware preservation and research

by todsacerdoti • 2 years ago

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Dwedit• 2 years ago

So, did Nintendo manage to retroactively gain copyright on all the source code files? If they did, then older open source copies are infringing.

Kudos• 2 years ago

Nintendo can somehow retract the open source license that was previously issued? That doesn't make sense to me.

dragonwriter3• 2 years ago

AIUI, gratuitous licenses are revocable at will in general in US law (if the standards for a contract rather than gratuitous license exist, things are different); the effect of revocation of a gratuitous license on parties that have expended resources in reliance on a promise of non-revocation may be limited by the doctrine of promissory estoppel, but even where such a limitation is found appropriate, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the revocation will have no effect and unlimited future use will be allowed.

viraptor2• 2 years ago

Nintendo doesn't have copyright to this code in any way. There are secrets which they may claim to own, but the emulator itself is completely independent. (unless of course we learn it was stolen in some way, but that's not what Nintendo claimed)

crtasm• 2 years ago

Yuzu agreed to hand over ownership of their domains etc. to Nintendo, I believe OP is speculating that includes the code they wrote.

Voultapher• 2 years ago

Love it, abandonware and walled gardens seem so short sighted.

yellow_lead• 2 years ago

suyu, pronounced "sue-you" (wink wink) is the continuation of the world's most popular, open-source, Nintendo Switch emulator, yuzu.

[1] https://gitlab.com/suyu-emu/suyu

robbiet480• 2 years ago

So far they haven't actually done anything except enable features that the Yuzu team built but hadn’t yet shipped. The lead of the project also isn’t a developer. So far it’s a lot more hype than reality from my view. So I’m holding out for another option.

prvc• 2 years ago

Which features?

molticrystal• 2 years ago

While it is light on actual emulation improvement, they did do a lot of infrastructure updates especially modifications towards resources that are no longer available.

I don't know if this will be the winning fork in the end, but I agree it is certainly the most "hyped" so I hope that publicity is not for nothing.

While it is often not ideal to have a non-dev in charge, I am going to try to hold off on too much judgment and hope for the best until things sort themselves out, they did at least take action.

ramon156• 2 years ago

Hey, we're going to maintain a fork of a repo we have no experience with!

viraptor2• 2 years ago

Did the owners of that repo say it? Or do you know their experience personally? Even if it's true - if nobody more experienced steps up, what's the problem with someone learning on the job? We can wait with the criticism until there's actually something to complain about.

_imnothere• 2 years ago

Even if the work done by the new group isn't much, I'd support whoever stand up to companies like Nintendo.

Suyu: A Nintendo Switch emulator for hardware preservation and research

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