One of the problems with Yuzu (to nintendo) was that it contained the encryption keys pulled off nintendo switches. By removing commit history you actually can permanently remove this part of the code. There might be a more clever way to do this. Thats my best guess.
Although a good guess, this looks more like the work of someone who’s in way over their head and barely knows how to use git. Probably just downloaded the repo as a zip instead of cloning it through git. At least that’s the vibe I get from their commit history and other repos.
So basically, this person did the right thing on accident.
Nope, Yuzu was never distributed with keys. It could use keys that were provided by a user, but you had to add those yourself. Yuzu’s setup page even had (outdated) instructions on how to dump keys from your own Switch.
Just like how PlayStation emulators aren’t ever distributed with the BIOS, because sharing the BIOS is considered piracy.
Also made communities, setup a patron and donation mails.
This just seems like a dude wanting to scam money out of it and/or taking credit for continued development, disregarding any effort made before the fork.
Why throw away the commit history?
One of the problems with Yuzu (to nintendo) was that it contained the encryption keys pulled off nintendo switches. By removing commit history you actually can permanently remove this part of the code. There might be a more clever way to do this. Thats my best guess.
I downloaded and set up Yuza the day before all this went down, and it did not include encryption keys. And trust me, I looked.
Except, if someone had the repo cloned before the purge, they would retain all of the information, wouldn’t they?
Although a good guess, this looks more like the work of someone who’s in way over their head and barely knows how to use git. Probably just downloaded the repo as a zip instead of cloning it through git. At least that’s the vibe I get from their commit history and other repos.
So basically, this person did the right thing on accident.
Nope, Yuzu was never distributed with keys. It could use keys that were provided by a user, but you had to add those yourself. Yuzu’s setup page even had (outdated) instructions on how to dump keys from your own Switch.
Just like how PlayStation emulators aren’t ever distributed with the BIOS, because sharing the BIOS is considered piracy.
Also made communities, setup a patron and donation mails.
This just seems like a dude wanting to scam money out of it and/or taking credit for continued development, disregarding any effort made before the fork.