Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github.

Nintendo continues to sweep the internet for Yuzu emulator files and spinoffs after its creators agreed to shut down and pay the game publisher $2.4 million.

Nintendo has issued a takedown request for more than 8,500 copies of code of Switch emulator Yuzu, which was shut down in March 2024 as its owners paid out $2.4 million in a lawsuit settlement.

After slamming the Switch emulator Yuzu with a $2.4 million lawsuit that caused it to shut down, Nintendo is now taking aim at its copies. The gaming giant submitted a total of 8,535 takedown notices for Yuzu emulator forks on GitHub,

A $2.4 million settlement with Nintendo effectively put an end to the development of the popular Switch emulator Yuzu, but it's not that easy to wipe a piece of software from the face of the internet.

Who is Nintendo's target now? Today we learned that Nintendo issued a DMCA takedown notice to GitHub to wipe out every fork of the original Yuzu repository, all 8,535 of them. Nin