It's been 240 months since the manufacturer of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu settled for Y2 million, stopped development and handed over the code to Nintendo. But before Yuzu went offline, countless emulation fans had forked the code to their Github repository and created duplicates. Others have backed up their code to other hosting platforms, so removing the repository of 8,535 Yuzu code could make it more resilient to Nintendo takedown requests than Github, which is compliant with Nintendo takedown requests.

The takedown details were posted on Github yesterday, based on a takedown request sent on 4/29. "The reported network containing allegedly compromised content was larger than 100 (100) repositories, and because the submitter claimed that all or most of the forks were compromised to the same extent as the parent repository, GitHub was unable to take action against the entire network of 8,535 repositories, including the parent repository." We handled the down notification," the statement said.

Nintendo has repeated the same claims it has made in the past: Yuzu is violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because it "primarily intended and illegally" circumvented technical measures that effectively control access to protected works under the DMCA."This is mainly due to Yuzu using an encryption key to decrypt and play the switch game, but the emulator didn't include the console hardware key in the code.The user had to provide prod.The key itself. (It included code to generate game-specific encrypted titles.But the key.

When Yuzu quickly settled the lawsuit, instructions on its website—which explained how to use the tool Lockpick_Rcm to dump encryption keys from the switch —also suggested that key-related codes may have proven harmful in court. But we never know because cases involving emulation and DMCA avoidance measures have not been brought to trial. 

While the 8,535 repositories sound like a big blow, the code remains online in many other places, and Sudachi, one of Github's Yuzu successors (the keys related to the title require users to supply them for each individual game). Despite ongoing efforts to counteract further development of Switch emulation, such as tracking 2 Discord accounts that tried to spin up their successors using Yuzu's code, Nintendo has been unable to find or remove all the places where the emulator's code is hidden online. You can't do that. Nintendo may have a particularly hard time developing Yuzu on Github, but it still has another formidable Switch emulator, Ryujinx