Switch emulator Eden fights back against Nintendo GitHub DMCA

Eden’s fight with Nintendo is not over yet. According to a Discord update shared by the project’s team, GitHub has now disabled the eden-emulator/Releases repository, which had been one of the project’s main ways to distribute official builds.

The team says it had already responded to Nintendo’s February DMCA notice, but GitHub still removed the Releases page anyway. In the same message, Eden said its source code and official releases are still available through its self-hosted Git service, which will now be its main distribution channel going forward.

That is the key point here. Nintendo may have knocked Eden off one popular platform, but according to the developers, the emulator itself is still online and still being distributed elsewhere.

This comes a few weeks after Nintendo went after several Nintendo Switch emulator projects on GitHub. According to Kotaku, Nintendo sent DMCA notices to repositories tied to several Switch emulators and related forks, including Eden, Citron, Kenji-NX, MeloNX, Sudachi, and others. VGC reported at the time that some projects had already started disappearing, while some related websites also went offline shortly after the notices were sent.

Eden was one of the few projects that looked ready to push back. Kotaku reported in February that Eden’s developers were still continuing work after the DMCA notice and were trying to challenge parts of the takedown rather than simply shutting the project down. 

Now, according to the Discord statement, the team is taking an even clearer route by moving distribution away from GitHub and pointing users to its own infrastructure instead. The post also says nightly and development builds are still available for now, while older releases have been mirrored through a backup archive.

As noted by the folks at Android Authority, self-hosted mirrors had already become part of the plan for projects like Eden, which makes a full shutdown harder even when GitHub repositories disappear.

This also comes as takedown disputes keep showing up across gaming platforms. We recently covered the alleged Minecraft Dungeons GitHub leak and a separate report about Microsoft allegedly hitting Minecraft Legacy Console posts with DMCA notices on X.

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