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Help preserve Yuzu's code base (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 8 months ago by Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de to c/nintendo@lemmy.world

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As you all know or may not know,
Nintendo has taken down Yuzu,
see following post for more info on that:
https://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 #13198 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:
https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu/tree/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:

git clone https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu.git

(Requires https://git-scm.com/)

And you can pull in all the branches,
as described in this Github Gist:
https://gist.github.com/grimzy/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f72

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[–] didnt_readit@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

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

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

Plus latest Yuzu and Citra binaries:

https://archive.org/details/yuzu-latest-builds-4th-march-2024

https://archive.org/download/citra-latest-builds-4th-march-2024

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

https://github.com/MattDoesAThing/yuzu-wiki

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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:

https://flathub.org/apps/org.yuzu_emu.yuzu

https://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.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 10 points 8 months ago

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@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] didnt_readit@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

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

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

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

[–] MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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)

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That would be excellent. Thanks for letting me know!

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 6 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Git can be used over i2p

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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":
https://github.com/search?q=yuzu-android&type=repositories&s=updated

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

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like software heritage has it archived, up to yesterday's commit: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu-android

They also archived other yuzu git repos: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=github.com%2Fyuzu-emu%2F&with_visit=true&with_content=true

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.

[–] didnt_readit@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

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...

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks!

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Dooooooit

[–] albert@lemmy.sysctl.io 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about external dependencies such as breakpad (which was also taken down)? I can't find a single repo with the complete code-base.

[–] didnt_readit@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Breakpad (and all other dependencies--well anything hosted by Yuzu team on Github anyway) are included in this archive: https://archive.org/download/yuzu-emu_GitHub_03-04-2024

[–] zarenki@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's one more repo worth archiving that isn't included in this, was taken down at the same time as the others, is needed to build yuzu, and is a submodule in yuzu, yuzu-android, and yuzu-mainline: https://github.com/merryhime/dynarmic.git

I found one copy of it at https://github.com/ihaveamac/dynarmic

Most other submodules are from huge projects with no real risk of vanishing (mozilla, khronos, libusb, etc.), but a few others that might be worth noting (all still online in github) include: merryhime/oaknut, bylaws/libadrenotools, and lat9nq/tzdb_to_nx

[–] didnt_readit@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks I’ll back these up as well!

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