Nintendo's sudden interest in ensuring that people can't rip keys from their Switch or emulate Switch games regardless of provenance likely stems from this week's May 12 launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Lockpick, which remains up as of this writing, has been in development since early 2019. In a Discord post, developer 'Mark' wrote that 'the risks associated with a potential legal case are too high for us to ignore, and we cannot continue knowing that we may be in violation of copyright law.' Advertisementįurther Reading Hands-on with Tears of the Kingdom’s Zelda-meets- Minecraft construction set Seeing Nintendo's move on Lockpick, a popular Switch emulator on Android, Skyline, called it quits over the weekend, at least as a public-facing tool you can easily download to your phone. Nintendo's takedown request (RTF file) notes that the Switch contains 'multiple technological protection measures' that allow the Switch to play only 'legitimate Nintendo video game files.' Lockpick tools, combined with a modified Switch, let users grab the cryptographic keys from their own Switch and use them on 'systems without Nintendo's Console TPMs' to play 'pirated versions of Nintendo's copyright-protected game software.' GitHub typically allows repositories with DMCA strikes filed against them to remain open while their maintainers argue their case. Aarons tweeted on Thursday night that Nintendo had issued DMCA takedown requests to GitHub, asking Lockpick, Lockpick_RCM, and nearly 80 forks and derivations to be taken down under section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which largely makes illegal the circumvention of technological protection measures that safeguard copyrighted material. Simon Aarons maintained a forked repository of Lockpick, a tool (along with Lockpick_RCM) that grabbed the encryption keys from a Nintendo Switch and allowed it to run officially licensed games. Perhaps woken by news of its next premier first-party title already looking really impressive on emulators, Nintendo has moved to take down key tools for emulating and unlocking Switch consoles, including one that lets Switch owners grab keys from their own device.

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