Oha comments on Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 123 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (30 children)

Mirrored it just in case something happens
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[–] Risk@feddit.uk 104 points 2 years ago* (18 children)

Streisand effect in action. I am never going to buy anything Nintendo, because they're a dog-shit company. I hadn't realised a Switch emulator existed. Andddd... My wife would really like to play Pikmin 4.

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[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 22 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Yep all you need to do is find a copy of the firmware (you actually can get the latest firmware from the internet archive) and the decryption keys (they're a little bit more difficult to find, can't remember where I got them from, but it took a long time for me to find a working download)

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[–] JackOverlord@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

For the future and anyone else who reads this:

https://rentry.co/128bb

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[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago*

Thank you!

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Or just download a FitGirl repack of any Switch game and you don't have to worry about any firmware/decryption nonsense. Just install and play.

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[–] graymess@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I've wondered about those. Don't they get outdated as the emulators become more developed? I'm assuming it's packed with whichever version was the latest stable release at the time.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yes but you can always just update the emulator yourself. If you're playing the latest games then you're usually using a more up-to-date version anyway.

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[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I never figured this out. When I play switch games it's always a version that bundles the emulator with it and has all the keys and bios crap already configured.

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[–] Pwnmode@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

There are tons of sites that host switch firmware and "prod keys" for it as well. You need the keys for playing games on the switch natively as well.

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[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

You might also ask nicely for folks to send you theirs. Especially since Nintendo is going after Yuzu, I'm sure there's plenty of folks that would volunteer keys via DM just to stick it to Nintendo...

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[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The keys I found were on a website linked from a website posted to a Reddit sub. And they were base64 encoded for obscurity

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[+] Pirky@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

I found that yuzu is more stable while Ryujinx is able to calculate uncached shaders a lot faster, which is great for playing Smash Ultimate, since I couldn't get online shadercaches to work correctly. I overall prefer Ryujinx, but both are very solid.

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[–] reinei@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They are up to 4 already‽ I mean I never really kept up with a game I started at the second entry and wasn't particularly good at at the time but still...

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