Nintendo may have just won its battle to put the most popular Nintendo Switch emulators out of business. In March, it sued Yuzu out of existence — and now it may have convinced Yuzu’s primary competitor,

Another day, another Nintendo console emulator that has ceased operations. A developer at Switch emulator Ryujinx announced on its Discord that it’s shutting down. The message, shared to X (formerly Twitter) by video game news aggregator Wario64,

Ryujinx, a popular open-source Nintendo Switch emulator, announced it is shutting down after receiving pressure from Nintendo to cease operations.

Nintendo shut down the most popular Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu earlier this year. Now, the company has shut down the other one, Ryujinx.

This situation with Ryujinx isn’t the first time a Nintendo emulator has ceased development and it probably won’t be the last. It was just in March 2024 that the Yuzu developer ceased distribution of a Switch emulator and had to pay Nintendo $2.4 million in settlement fees.

Another Nintendo Switch emulator has been taken offline as Nintendo’s crackdown on the homebrew scene continues. Work on the open-source emulator Ryujinx will cease and downloads for it have been removed after its creator was approached by the Mario maker,

Nintendo has reportedly started cracking down on YouTube channels that feature their games being emulated, leaving some users baffled.

Nintendo reportedly “offered an agreement to stop working on” the Switch emulator, according to the makers of open source emulator Ryujinx.

Amid copyright strikes against popular channels like Retro Game Corps, the video-game giant escalates its enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Nintendo has shuttered another emulator, this time putting an end to Ryujinx. The program was an open-source emulator for playing Nintendo Switch games on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. A message shared today with the emulator's Discord server stated that the developer was contacted by Nintendo with a deal to cease work on the project.