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This won't fix your slumping sales Nintendo
I don't understand. How will Nintendo shut down an emulator? does the emulator need Nintendo server to play the game?
does the emulator need Nintendo server to play the game?
Not at all. Not even for online multiplayer, I remember Yuzu had some way to play multiplayer (there’s even a whole discord server for this).
I think Nintendo is trying to scare everyone by trying to take everything down and sue. But we have seen that it does not work, it’ll just split the base once again in multiple fragments (with different emulators).
Though, it feels like the development of Switch emulation has stagnated. I don’t see improvements for current games that have trouble running on the emulators (which often both original Yuzu and Ryujinx would fix by time).
If you read the article they speculate it's to slow down the development of a Switch 2 emulator.
Funny, here I am still using Yuzu
Still seeding it. Build: 4176
Stats:
Size: 936,5 MB
Upload: 37,6 GB
~~Rario~~ Ratio: 41,117
:)
Legendary ratio.
Oh you're using the comma as a decimal point... Still pretty good.
fun fact, most of the globe uses comma, anglophone sphere and china are the few ones using period for it
I got so used to using periods that I had to specify that I was using period as a decimal seperator in math exercises because here where I live it is uses comma
It's-a-me, Rario!
nintendo got L + Rario'd
I love when this shit happens and it's like oh, not the one I know about that literally has torrents bundling single games on pc to one click run the games lol
Good to know, will get them now
I was considering a Switch 2 but now... not so much.
Just wait until an emulator for switch 2. Then don't buy it.
Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damages because they knew they wouldn't be able to win in court.
All of these forks have since removed the key and require the user to supply it (legally from your own console).
So in theory they should be protected under US law since emulation and reverse engineering is completely legal.
However
Nintendo also has infinite money to throw at the problem, and FOSS devs are usually not willing to deal with insane amount of personal liability because of a hobby, which is how they killed Ryujinx.
So you better hold onto your guts if you plan to fight Nintendo.
Or move to i2p so they can't disable you lol.
Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damage
Was not it also because they have their Patreons subscribers things such as early access to leaked games?
From the article;
Nintendo's suit also claims Yuzu's Patreon page allows its developers to earn 30,000 a month by providing subscribers with "daily updates," "early access," and "special unreleased features" to games like Tears of the Kingdom by circumventing the protective measures Nintendo has in place to prevent piracy of video games.
I despise Nintendo but if this claim was true, they were earning money with pirated content, right?
Ah that might have been it then. As others pointed out, they never had the keys in the emulator itself.
Dunno if Yuzu provided the game itself, or tools to extract the game successfully, but the main argument from Nintendo was still copy protection bypassing, which is illegal.
Actually now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure they also nuked the Switch dumping tools from GitHub long before they killed Yuzu for the same reason. All it did was extract the firmware and console keys, but it was enough to force the tools to be rehosted.
Emulation isn't protected.
That was the use of emulators in advertising to show performance differences.
It does not protect emulation as the company went bankrupt before that could be decided.
You needed to acquire encryption keys for both Ryujinx and Yuzu.
Yuzu just requested money and put features behind a donator paywall
I thought Yuzu also didn't include the keys. They had instructions on how you could copy them from a device you owned. Or was that something different?
The emulator didn't, but I think they had one somewhere in their git history or website.
I forgot now, but I vaguely remember Nintendo pointing out a specific key that was found under the parent company's assets.
Could be wrong though, maybe they really did just get screwed over
probably not the git history, because if it was then that woould still be present across forks
which is how they killed Ryujinx.
Plus sending goons to his house.
Allegedly.
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Meh, emulate it and get better frame rates and higher resolution.
Why would I buy a console that plays the game at an inferior state?
Nintendo is free at any time to release their games on Steam or even their own PC storefront and if I could play it with my hardware then I'd buy most games at full price.
Until then, nah I'm good.
God I would play all the Zelda games I missed not hassling with their consoles if they put them on Steam. Last Nintendo Console I owned was Wii.
Agree, as long as we are forced to bullshit, I'll just keep my hands dirty.
I never thought to emulate the switch until they killed the first emulator. Now I download the latest emu and roms nearly every month. Fuck Nintendo.
Yeah me too, i used to stick to the classics, gba and all but after they took down yuzu and eden became a thing i started using it
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fuck Nintendo.
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Open source is hard to kill off forever. Someone, somewhere is gonna have the repo.
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Eden's primary git repo is self-hosted. This doesn't affect them at all.
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And it will still not improve the sales of the Switch 2.
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