this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit.

Hopefully their works will live in the saved repos just as ReVanced was able to live on after YouTube shut the original project down.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (16 children)

So someone forked the GitHub right?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

Since there's now legal precedent, and GitHub already has the signatures of the project code, they will simply now close down any fork that matches the code signatures to avoid getting sued by Nintendo as well.

Hopefully someone forked it to a completely different self-hosted GitHub-like instance or the other GitHub alternatives.

[–] InfiniteStruggle 3 points 9 months ago

how are the signatures build? do they just use a sha hash for checking file identity?

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