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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by pivot_root@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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 @Daughter3546@lemmy.world:

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

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[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

F you Nintendo.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 13 points 10 months ago

Does a settlement like this set any kind of precedent?

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[-] Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

And I was thinking of cloning the repo. Fuck

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[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I have bought them because they are fun.

[-] iliketurtles@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

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