Nintendo nuked 13 Switch emulators in a day. these lived — and no court ever called them illegal

on Feb 14, 2026 Nintendo hit 13 Switch emulators with a single DMCA sweep. Yuzu and Ryujinx are gone, but Eden, Ryubing, Kenji-NX and Citron are…

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The Eden lesson: doing it by the book still lost the repo

Eden is the case worth studying, because it did everything a project is supposed to do — and still lost its GitHub presence. Eden filed a formal DMCA counter-notice, arguing that only its GitHub…

So is Switch emulation actually legal? The part that matters

The emulators themselves are legal, and that's not a hot take — it's settled US law. Clean-room emulation was protected in Sony v. Connectix (2000) and Sony v. Bleem, and Nintendo has never won a…

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