Nintendo hits more Switch emulators on GitHub with DMCA takedown notices

Nintendo has sent a new wave of DMCA takedown notices that target Switch emulators hosted on GitHub. According to a report from PC Gamer, multiple emulator projects and forks were told by GitHub that a DMCA notice had been filed against their repositories.

The list includes Citron, Eden, Kenji-NX, MelonNX, Pine, Pomelo, Ryubing, Ryujinx, Skyline, Sudachi, Sumi, Suyu, and Yuza. A notification shared publicly shows GitHub Trust & Safety telling at least one recipient they had one business day to respond, or the repo would be disabled.

One developer, Eden’s maufeat, said on Discord that it was the project’s release repository that got hit, and that future releases and nightly builds may need to be downloaded directly from the team instead of GitHub.

This is the latest in Nintendo’s broader push against Switch emulation and piracy. The company previously took legal action tied to the Yuzu emulator and its developer Tropic Haze, and it’s also been tightening up rules in its account policies around emulation and piracy.

While this throws a wrench into the easy distribution of emulators, it does little to stop the folks behind them from making them.