Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx goes offline

Another emulator has been shut down

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Nintendo has allegedly shut down theNintendo Switchemulator Ryujinx.

In theRyujinx Discord channelyesterday,developer and moderator ‘rip in peri peri’ claimed that the Japanese company contacted the team and offered “an agreement” to shut down the emulator, which it later accepted.

“Yesterday, [Ryujinx creator] ‘gdkchan’ was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he’s in control of,” ‘rip in peri peri’ said.

“While awaiting confirmation on whether he would take this agreement, the organization has been removed, so I think it’s safe to say what the outcome is.”

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The download page on theRyujinx.orgwebsite is currently blank, and theGitHubpage for the project has been taken down. This suggests that the emulator was removed almost immediately after the agreement was finalized.

The Discord announcement continued, with ‘rip in peri peri’ revealing that the team had a working iOS port “that ran really well” behind the scenes, but it remained a novelty due to a lack of tools, like UI, so wasn’t released.

There was also a working Android port, which did have a UI, but it wasn’t in a state to be released due to performance and accuracy issues.

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Ryujinx’s reported takedown comes just a few months after Nintendo shut down another emulator, Yuzu following a short civil lawsuit.

The companysued the creatorsfor “facilitating piracy on a colossal scale”. It alleged that Yuzu had broken copyright law, arguing that the emulator was “primarily designed” to evade the encryption of the Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo and the Yuzu creators agreed to settle the lawsuit later.

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