In 2020, Nintendo went to court to stop the sale of SX Core and SX Lite, two Team-Xecuter modchips designed to work on all Switch consoles at the time.
These lawsuits were followed by a criminal prosecution in the United States, and Team-Xecuter’s operation effectively shut down. The chips lived on, however, and remained available through compatible alternatives such as HWFLY and Picofly.
Now, Nintendo is also going after the repositories that host the firmware for these modchips.
In a takedown notice dated November 6, which GitHub published on Tuesday, Nintendo of America targets Ansem-SoD/Picofly. According to its description, this repository offered information and firmware for a Switch modchip based on...
