Nintendo Wipes Out 144 Mod Chip Firmware Repos in GitHub DMCA Sweep
Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep
Nintendo filed four DMCA notices with GitHub targeting Switch emulators Yuzu and Citron Neo, but the real focus was Picofly mod chip firmware — 144 repositories removed and replaced with takedown notices. The firmware lets users solder a chip to the Switch mainboard and bypass copy protection. It's still hosted elsewhere on GitHub, and after wiping 8,500 Yuzu mirrors in 2024, Nintendo may not be done.
The Nintendo Switch console and video games contain technological protection measures ('TPMs') that permit the Nintendo Switch console to interact only with legitimate Nintendo video game files.