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Wow. When yuzu was taken down I wrote a script to automatically download the 5 latest releases of a few other emulators I use, and that included Ryujinx (so I do have the binaries for those, which will go into safekeeping).

Now I wish I had set up a Gitea mirror as well, even though I would likely never build it myself.

Edit: here's the script - https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/89afd64747fc909e80b29abc902c8...

It is designed to be very low impact (I had it on a daily cron).

Feel free to use it to ensure you can preserve the software you rely on. As far as I'm concerned, I'm _very_ sad that Nintendo has now made it impossible to enjoy my games on better hardware, and will probably focus on PC gaming henceforth (there are lots of nice indie games on Steam, like Dredge, which is my current favorite).

There is a backup from 15/09 on https://archive.softwareheritage.org/

Here's Ryujinx new website, final releases archived and latest builds available for download - https://ryujinx-emulator.com

Do forks go away together with the original repository when it's removed from Github?

In this case it seems so, someone just uploaded the codebase again (archived): https://github.com/emmauss/Ryujinx

5 years out of date though, it would seem.

Here's a more up to date one: https://github.com/Synthlight/Ryujinx

Codebase, but no releases...

They used to handle releases through github actions, so it should be fairly straightforward to set that up

Edit: I guess I'm wrong, see reply

If a repository is removed by Github in response to a DMCA request, yes.

(But it's not clear that that's what happened here.)

The forks aren't actually automatically taken down in most cases. The claimant must list every individual fork in the claim. Which I love, because it's kind of petty but still following the DMCA to the letter.

Here is an example[1] of the form claimants must fill out.

> Each fork is a distinct repository and must be identified separately if you believe it is infringing and wish to have it taken down

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/05/2024-05-3...

IIRC it took them a couple months to get through all of the Yuzu forks after the initial DMCA and lawsuit. I doubt there were nearly as many forks of Ryujinx, though.

Depends on which type of removal they do, but they can be yes.

I actually do have a private gitea mirror setup after the yuzu takedown.

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