Help preserve Yuzu's code base
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:
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:
- https://dev.azure.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/_build
- https://dev.azure.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/_build/results?buildId=26300&view=results
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
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)
36Great 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.
22Damn 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
ourfavoritefruitson Github did a good job of forking / preserving Citra:10It 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 :(
10I'm going to laugh my ass off when some hackivist group hacks Nintendo for this.
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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
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Just want to comment because Im glad to see the tech saavy on lemmy preserving this. Thank you for your service.
19You 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)
14Like 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.
9Forgejo 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
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Yuzu was accepting donations on patreon though, which eliminates any chance of staying anonymous
6Of 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.
5Git can be used over i2p
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Do you know where to grab yuzu-android source code?
9Sadly there doesn't appear to be an official Azure DevOps Pipeline for the
yuzu-androidrepo,
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=updatedI'd guess one of the following will be the latest
yuzu-androidcode bases:5Looks 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.
7Thanks!
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What about external dependencies such as breakpad (which was also taken down)? I can't find a single repo with the complete code-base.
3Breakpad (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
4There'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
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