Nintendo’s famously…efficient lawyers have issued GitHub four DMCA notices over the last week, effectively wiping roughly 217 Nintendo Switch-related repositories and forks (alternative versions of the console’s source code) from the site. However, while three of the four DMCA notices targeted repositories for Switch emulators, the largest one appears to be a first for Nintendo: a legal takedown notice for the firmware of a Nintendo Switch modchip named Picofly, a chip that can be soldered onto the console and used to bypass security checks.

As first reported by TorrentFreak , the latest wave of Nintendo GitHub DMCA notices appeared on the site on November 9. Three of the four notices are for Nintendo’s old nemesis, Yuzu, the Nintendo Switch emulator created by Tropic Haze LLC, which agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million in damages back in 2024 . One of these three targeted Citron Neo, which is a fork of the Yuzu emulator. The Citron Neo DMCA notice wiped 71 repositories from GitHub in one fell swoop.…