Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
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> not only agreed to pay $2,400,000 to Nintendo, it also agrees that Yuzu was “primarily designed to circumvent and play Nintendo Switch games,” and agrees to be permanently enjoined from working on Yuzu, hosting Yuzu, distributing Yuzu’s code or features, hosting Yuzu websites and social media, or doing anything else that circumvents Nintendo’s copyright protection.
> Oh, and it will surrender the yuzu-emu.org domain name to Nintendo, agrees to delete not only its copies of Yuzu but also “all circumvention tools used for developing or using Yuzu—such as TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer,” and hand over any “physical circumvention devices” and “modified Nitnendo hardware” to Nintendo. It also agrees to not delete any other “evidence” that infringes Nintendo’s IP rights.
Good lawd. They just rolling over. Giving it all up.
Hope someone somewhere has copies.
Well that’s disappointing.
It sucks how this might affect the emulation community. There needs to be some middle ground between piracy and emulation. Sure, Nintendo should be able to stop pirates. But I don’t think Nintendo should be able to stop people from playing the game they legally bought through emulators like Yuzu.
I didn’t know Yuzu existed till this. Bet people are copying the files and sharing them through P2P en masse. This is just extorting a couple millions from a few people by a company that earns billions.
I don’t understand why this is a surprise. I also don’t understand why people are angry about this.
I really think that Yuzu did the best thing they could here, just shut it down and pay up, it isn’t worth it to have Nintendo on your back for the rest of your life like *some* of their other targets.
I don’t blame Yuzu for giving up so quickly.
At least there’s ryujinx… rite?
Ryunjinx sweating their ass off right now.
Pro tip. If you want to make an emulator and not have this happen, make sure you at least wait until the thing you’re trying to emulate isn’t still being manufactured and sold anymore by the company that is notorious for pursuing and winning these type of lawsuits.
So the expected result when someone is stupid enough to monetize a product that was clearly designed to facilitate piracy.
I wonder if they settled so quickly because they assumed they’d have no case after going through discovery. Might be the devs’ internal communications wouldn’t have put them in a good position.
such a bafflingly dumb decision to do the patreon.
This is what people thought they were gonna do to palworld lmfaooo. If Nintendo can sue you they will.
With how quick this came to a close and with all terms favoring Nintendo, their lawyer must have told them to fold immediately or they would be utterly destroyed.
They were absolutely cooked.
Tbf, the switch is still an active piece of hardware, they should’ve waited for the Switch 2 announcement before trying anything ballsy.
Look at citra and virtualboy, Nintendo could not give fewer fucks about someone creating emulators of dead hardware
Nintendo is the fun police
BACK IT UP EVERYONE
It was stupid of them to try and monetize the way they did.
So, just to be THAT guy: are the “latest” patreon versions of the emu available to everyone? Or do they need a special patreon file for them to work?
I don’t think any emulator people should even start making an emulator for a current gen console. Let the companies that makes these games and systems get all the money they can while the games and systems are new and relevant and when a system is basically a generation old and not making bank anymore, then start working on an emulator. The emulators of older systems pretty much get left alone by the game companies.
Next stop for Nintendo Ninjas: Mig Switch.
Womp womp.
All the “heh akchewally Nintendo has no case lol” self proclaimed reddit and twitter lawyers are real silent now. Real silent.
How did they even make any money, EA donations can’t have been that much..
Hahah last article I saw said Yuzu retains a lawyer, so I can imagine it went something like this:
“You guys are fucked”
Soo, if I have Yuzu and the keys already in my computer, I’m chilling? I’m ’boutta upload the whole thing to my Drive lol
Insane that they were stupid enough to monetize. Not shocked at their invertebrate approach.
This was bound to happen, emulating modern gen games will piss off any platform
Because of course, instead of leaning towards a viable PC port and putting their lil older games there like Sony and Microsoft, they start suing orphanages that have Mario as a middle name
Seriously if they focus on their games more, maybe people wouldn’t lean towards a PC rather than 20 fps console
Does anyone have a copy of the repo?
And yet I saw 10,000 comment saying that they couldn’t be sued lmao
As is…. Is Yuzu still completely usable for most games? Is the emulator functional that it no longer needed updates to work?
Boooo
Only 2.4M…wow, I would think I MORE$$$
Declare bankruptcy, and next week we come up with a new company called yizi. This time don’t have your names anywhere near it.
They really put a target on their backs and asked Nintendo to come in full force, didn’t they?
Don’t forget to pre-order the Switch 2.
I don’t know anything about this other than what’s in these comments. But I now wonder if they made enough money from the ads/patreon that the $2.4 million is less than what they actually made, and they still turned a profit?
Otherwise, seems like a series of very dumb decisions on their part
And this RussYuzu was born, incorporated far beyond the reach of US law and with a martyr fuck-you story and a Tetris logo just to spite Nintendo.
Not disagreeing with the verdict, mind you. Just spitting practical reality checks
So what stops others from continuing the work?