Nintendo's latest DMCA crackdown wipes over 200 Switch projects off GitHub, but Switch 2 emulators are safe for now

Published Nov 12, 2026, 12:23 PM EST Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia. He's based in Toronto. Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more. Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sign in to your XDA account Summary Nintendo has issued four DMCA notices, removing roughly 217 Switch-related repos from GitHub, including Yuzu and Picofly. Citron Neo (Yuzu fork) saw 72 GitHub repos removed; Nintendo cites Tropic Haze and prior legal wins. Switch 2 emulators Eglantine/Lichii are tied to Yuzu and could be next. Nintendo is back at it again, and given the growing popularity of Switch 2 emulators and the fact that the console was recently jailbroken, it's not exactly surprising. The Japanese gaming giant has issued four DMCA notices over the past week, wiping out roughly 217 Switch-related repositories and their associated forks (via TorrentFreak). Three of the DMCA notices target Switch emulation repositories related to Yuzu, while the last one targets a Switch modchip called Picofly, which needs to soldered onto the console to bypass its security. This isn't the first time Nintendo has targeted Yuzu. Back in 2024, Nintendo's legal action against Tropic Haze,Yuzu's parent company, ended in a $2.4 million damages settlement. Switch 2 emulators are fine... at least for now Emulators Eglantine and Lichii have ties to Yuzu's code base Citron Neo, a notable Switch emulator and a fork of Yuzu seems to have been specifically targeted, resulting in 72 repositories being removed from GitHub. In its takedown notices, Nintendo directly references Tropic Haze. On the other hand, Picofly is an alternative to Team-Xecuter's mod chips, which landed Gary Bowser (yes, that really is his name) in jail for 40 months in 2022 when Nintendo took legal action against the company. In its DMCA related to Picofly, Nintendo says that the repositories circumvent the "technological protection measures that permit the Nintendo Switch console to interact only with legitimate Nintendo video game files."None of these recent DMCAs seem to be related to the recent surge in vibe-coded Switch ports. However, two of the top Switch 2 emulators, Eglantine and Lichii, are tied to Yuzu's code base through Eden. With this in mind, Switch 2 projects could be next on Nintendo's legal hit list. In other recent Switch-related news, Nintendo recently patched an exploit that allowed the Switch 2 to be jailbroken.