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Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]". (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code.

The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. In addition, the repo for the Citra 3DS emulator was also taken down.

As of at least 23:30 UTC, Yuzu's website and Citra's website have been replaced with a statement about their discontinuation.

Other sources found by @[email protected]:

There is also an active Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b6gtb5/

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

F you Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how much the "Yuzu is primarily for piracy" thing will hurt yuzu successors off the open sourced code.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Does a settlement like this set any kind of precedent?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I have never played any Nintendo games. Idk what people see in them. I feel like people buy them mostly because of nostalgia. First game you ever played and all that, and then they buy switch for their kid.

This is bad news for emulation though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I have bought them because they are fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't care for them anymore, but the SNES, N64 and Gameboy eras were and still are magical.