I didn’t think emulators were copyright infringement since they’re built from scratch. Why isn’t GitHub telling them to get fucked?

Maybe we could build a distributed Github you can't just delete with something decentralized and versioning, like Hypercore protocol or IPLD (InterPlanetary Linked Data), Ceramic Network?

About legality: that's (japanese) Nintendo using US media laws gone rogue to swipe repos on a US hoster (Github). Maybe don't use a US hoster next time.
And yeah, Europe isn't much better there.

Nintendo doesn't seem to care about all other emulators of their previous consoles nearly as much, hopefully it stays that way

I know Nintendo=bad, but also, if their only leg to stand on is "these are distributing our keys" then just don't include the keys. Plenty of others don't.

I feel like all these repos knew their days were numbered because of that that, but they probably didn't care. It's easier to get everyone from one place than to look around online for the keys separately. May as well include the keys until Nintendo does something about it.

If emulators are not illegal, why Microsoft take them down? This should be illegal, the same way information was censored in COVID times.

I hate big tech.

Every time I read stories like that I wonder if I should do more stuff with the hyphanet.

I dream of a Nintendo where the artists are free from their work being used as a legal bludgeon against people who enjoy their work. You can't tell me the people behind tears of the kingdom were happy that their game was basically unable to be run on launch, and having to work within the constraints of a chip from 2018.