Following Yuzu shutdown, Nintendo casually swats over 8,500 copies of the Switch emulator in one go

Nintendo has managed to take down 8,535 GitHub repositories containing code from Switch emulator Yuzu with a single DMCA notice. Yup, after reaching a settlement with Tropic Haze, the company behind the emulator, the process of totally scrubbing any clones or copies of it from the net is in full swing.

If you’re out of the loop the company behind that plumber and the little pink blob’s decision to sue Yuzu’s creators in court earlier this year quickly resulted in a decision in Nintendo’s favour that meant Tropic Haze had to pay the publisher $2.4 million of “monetary relief”. It was also barred from offering or promoting Yuzu or its source code going forwards – leading to the emulator being “discontinued, effectively immediately”.

Now, as reported by TorrentFreak, Nintendo lodged a DMCA notice with GitHub – a platform that allows lots of developers to store and share code – eariler this week, and it’s resulted in a lot of Yuzu respositories being taken down.