Help preserve Yuzu's code base

As you all know or may not know,
Nintendo has taken down Yuzu,
see following post for more info on that:
lemmy.world/post/12728163

Now it’s important to preserve the code base of Yuzu,
so hopefully someday, once things cooled down a little,
an active fork can stick it’s head up.

After looking at the Azure DevOps Pipelines
of yuzu-emu/yuzu,
I noticed the latest pipeline ran 8 hours ago
as of writing this post:

Which tells us that the latest commit,
was a merge of PR from
zhaobot/tx-update-20240301020652

This fork,
is the most up-to-date one / contains the latest commit
done to Yuzu before the take down:
github.com/zhaobot/…/tx-update-20240301020652

I encourage you all to pull, star and fork this fork,
not only the master branch, but all branches!
The more copies floating out there,
the better the project will be preserved.

You can pull the code base to your local machine, with:


<span style="color:#323232;">git clone https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu.git
</span>

(Requires git-scm.com)

And you can pull in all the branches,
as described in this Github Gist:
gist.github.com/…/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f7…

kaputter_Aimbot,

– A wild Codeberg appeared. –

Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.

Website: Codeberg.org


The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members’ concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Wikipedia: Codeberg e.V.


In June 2022 the Software Freedom Conservancy’s “Give Up Github” campaign (in response to the GitHub Copilot licensing controversy) promoted Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub.

Conservancy: Give Up GitHub!

cheese_greater,

Dooooooit

mindbleach,

And anyone building on this code, now, has no connection to the money or the blog. The fanboy excuses for Nintendo’s behavior don’t apply.

I didn’t help anyone play Zelda early. Neither did you.

didnt_readit, (edited )

Even better, there’s full archives of all yuzu and citra GitHub repos on archive.org. Yuzu depends on a bunch of other repos they had hosted on their GitHub to build. Same with Citra. All of that is included, plus full git history, in the archive.org 7z files. The torrents are actually really fast right now as there are a lot of seeders. Highly recommend downloading while you can in case Nintendo files a DMCA.

archive.org/download/yuzu-emu_GitHub_03-04-2024

archive.org/download/citra-emu_GitHub_03-04-2024

Plus latest Yuzu and Citra binaries:

archive.org/…/yuzu-latest-builds-4th-march-2024

archive.org/…/citra-latest-builds-4th-march-2024

Also Yuzu Wiki with full git history (for some reason missing from the archive.org backup)

github.com/MattDoesAThing/yuzu-wiki

ieightpi,

Just want to comment because Im glad to see the tech saavy on lemmy preserving this. Thank you for your service.

MyNamesNotRobert, (edited )

You know how drug dealers are able to sell drugs on the dark net and mostly (I guess) get away with it? We need a way of posting source code without it being linked to irl people for projects like these. Just think of all the lawsuits and cease and desists that could be avoided if such a thing could be done (and it’s users actually followed proper opsec like they do on dark net websites)

JoeKrogan,
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

Git can be used over i2p

mesamunefire, (edited )

Like gitea but federated? git the protocol already supports a lot of this, its just the issue/PR/management side that gives github the edge. Something like gitea but federated/Activity hub would be cool to see, so no one server can ever be taken down.

importedreality,
@importedreality@programming.dev avatar

Forgejo contributors are currently working on federation, but there’s still quite a bit of work to be done: codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

Once it’s complete, I imagine it will be merged upstream into gitea

mesamunefire,

That would be excellent. Thanks for letting me know!

wahming,

Yuzu was accepting donations on patreon though, which eliminates any chance of staying anonymous

Ajen,

Of course you can upload code anonymously… Nintendo was able to sue the yuzu team because the developers made a company (Tropic Haze LLC) around it that apparently is worth millions. If they stayed anonymous Nintendo wouldn’t have had anyone to sue.

ubergeek77, (edited )
@ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat avatar

Great work, thanks!

Anything on Citra? PineappleEA made it easy enough to also download binaries for Yuzu, but I’ve got nothing but a flatpak for Citra.

A central place for binaries of both emulators would be great.

Both flatpaks are still available, by the way:

flathub.org/apps/org.yuzu_emu.yuzu

flathub.org/apps/org.citra_emu.citra

They can be bundled and exported after downloading, although it will only be for the architecture of your machine.

didnt_readit, (edited )

All Citra repos including dependencies archived here: archive.org/download/citra-emu_GitHub_03-04-2024

Also latest Citra binaries for all platforms here: archive.org/…/citra-latest-builds-4th-march-2024

Rikj000,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Damn Citra as well?!..
Nintendo is being relentless…

Luckily the FOSS community is acting like a hydra,
for each head they cut off, 2 new ones will grow back.

Seems like ourfavoritefruits on Github did a good job of forking / preserving Citra:

ubergeek77,
@ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat avatar

It was just how the settlement was worded; this team is prevented from distributing “anything that circumvent’s Nintendo’s blah blah,” and Citra was developed by the same team. So, it got taken down all the same :(

MyNamesNotRobert, (edited )

I’m going to laugh my ass off when some hackivist group hacks Nintendo for this.

redcalcium,

Do you know where to grab yuzu-android source code?

Rikj000,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Sadly there doesn’t appear to be an official Azure DevOps Pipeline for the yuzu-android repo,
so be cautious with following forks!

After searching Github for yuzu-android, and then sorting on “Recently Updated”:
github.com/search?q=yuzu-android&type=repositorie…

I’d guess one of the following will be the latest yuzu-android code bases:

redcalcium,

Thanks!

redcalcium, (edited )

Looks like software heritage has it archived, up to yesterday’s commit: archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/…/directory/?…

They also archived other yuzu git repos: archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=git…

Might want to grab anything that looks important there in case it got taken down too. That yuzu.wiki repo seems important because it contains instructions on how to build yuzu.

https://lemmy.institute/pictrs/image/77b2d736-8984-4150-b162-212c922487b8.png

didnt_readit,

Is there any way to download the whole git repo with history from that archive? Their FAQ seems to indicate there’s a way:

If absolutely needed, you can use the more expensive “revision” option of the Download button, that will prepare for you the equivalent of a git bare clone , which you will be able to use offline. This may require quite some time (hours, or even days for huge repositories).

But when I got to a repo I don’t see a “revision” option when I click the download button…

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