Eden emulator pushes back, pledges mirrors and continued development after Nintendo DMCA

Nintendo submitted a mid‑February 2026 DMCA sweep that named 13 Nintendo Switch emulator repositories, and Eden responded by publishing a v0.2.0 build days after the notices while promising mirrors and continued development. The notices, flagged publicly on Feb 16, 2026, targeted projects the company said were designed to run Switch games and bypass Nintendo’s protections.

The DMCA text reproduced in reporting states plainly: "The reported repositories offer, link to, or otherwise provide access to Nintendo Switch emulators, including but not limited to Citron, Eden, Kenji‑NX, MeloNX, Pine, Pomelo, Ryubing, Ryujinx, Skyline, Sudachi, Sumi, Suyu, and Yuzu." Nintendo’s legal grounds in the notice argued that "Nintendo Switch emulators are primarily designed to play Nintendo Switch games. Specifically, these Nintendo Switch emulators illegally circumvent Nintendo’s [technological prevention measures] and run illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games," and noted Switch games are encrypted with "proprietary cryptographic keys" the company says the emulators bypass.

Eden’s maintainers pushed back publicly with a detailed status message reported by Videogameschronicle, saying in full: "Our source code is unaffected, as it isn’t hosted on GitHub. The only thing targeted was our GitHub releases page. Not the source code, not our Actions workflow, nothing on our self‑hosted Git instance, not even our development PR/Master/Nightly builds. The source code is always available at [link], and releases are also mirrored at [link]. Our development will continue as always." Eden founder Camille LaVey reiterated the project’s stated purpose to preservation when speaking to outlets: "We want to keep continuing the work in the preservation of videogames, allowing game owners to benefit from this beyond their original hardware."

Reporting across outlets shows variation in immediate outcomes. Kotaku noted Eden’s GitHub page remained accessible as of their coverage and recorded that Eden published v0.2.0 days after the notices; Kotaku also highlighted GitHub’s general practice that pages issued DMCA notices have roughly "1 business day to make requested changes" before removal. Videogameschronicle and Hitmarker reported that other projects were less fortunate: Citron and MeloNX have been discontinued and their websites appear to have shut down, and several repositories named in the notice "appear to have been removed."

Community and industry signals landed quickly. Multiple outlets credit Reddit user Devile with spotting and submitting the DMCA evidence, and Kotaku quoted an Android emulation subreddit commenter saying, "If they kill one, 10 more will pop up... Kill 10, 100 more will pop up. They can never kill emulation." Observers also pointed out that many of the projects named are forks of larger upstream efforts such as Yuzu and Ryujinx, with Eden specifically identified as a Yuzu fork.

Key questions remain unanswered in current reporting: there is no public confirmation of a DMCA counter‑notice filed by Eden, the self‑hosted repository and mirror URLs cited by Eden were reported only as placeholders in outlet summaries, and GitHub has not been shown to confirm which repositories were removed or when. Reporters who covered the mid‑February action flagged follow ups to verify counter‑notice filings, obtain Eden’s mirror links, and seek Nintendo and GitHub comment on the specific enforcement steps taken.