Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
New documents filed Monday, February 26 reveal that videogame giant Nintendo is taking action against the creators of the popular emulator tool Yuzu.
The copyright infringement filing, from Nintendo of America, states that the Yuzu tool (from developer Tropic Haze LLC) illegally circumvents the software encryption and copyright protection systems of Nintendo Switch titles, and thus facilitates piracy and infringes copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Nintendo alleges that Tropic Haze's free Yuzu emulator tool unlawfully allows pirated Switch games to be played on PCs and other devices, bypassing Nintendo's protection measures.
The official Yuzu website suggests that the tool is to be used with software you yourself own: "You are legally required to dump your games from your Nintendo Switch" — but it's common knowledge, that this is not how these tools are primarily used.
Thanks for the Streisand effect Nintendo. Hadn't even heard of this until now. Now I'm downloading everything, and I'll be donating to the devs if possible. And telling my friends to do the same. I will continue not giving you money for over 10 years now.
Eat shit.
I agree with the sentiment and everything, but the whole gaming console industry has gone to crap after they started putting hard drives/storage in them with the goal of needing you to be online and not owning anything anymore. They are all equally despicable for that. Which makes emulation even more essential, just for preserving those games into the future when the online front will inexorably shut down.
I agree with this as well. However, Nintendo is like the Disney of lawsuits for the gaming industry. No one, and I mean NO ONE protects IP like they do.
I can't boast of your 10-year track record, but my next 10 years started today. I canceled my Nintendo online and I'm selling my switch. Fuck Nintendo
The best time to boycott those pricks was 15 years ago. The next best time is today.
They should go one step further and ban the programming language as well the emulator was created in. That will show them!
I say we ban technology.
What about a technology permit, so you're only allowed to develop technologized products if you get a permit from the Ministry of Proprietary Technology.
Great idea comrade, glory to Arstotzka!
I wonder if they're going after Switch emulators now because the emulation capability is matching the product lifecycle, and that the patreon page makes the Yuzu team legally targetable.
If we're in for a repeat of GC -> Wii in the sense of the Wii being a more powerful GC, then Yuzu is potentially already close to being able to emulate the next gen Nintendo console out of the gate.
If that is the case, that's just par for the course when you're dealing with nearly decade old hardware.
Fuck Nintendo
This is why I will never buy a Nintendo console. I'm about to buy a Steam Deck... call me biased.
Download Yuzu now, sideload later. Just in case.
The problem is with the development ceasing. The source code will remain, but if there'z no dedicated team developing bugs will not be fixed and features will not be added.
It's an open source project. It's always going to be out there. I am gonna go fork the repo just for the hell of it right now.
If Nintendo wins, the Github page and the website page will probably shutdown.
Forking it now is a good idea.
It will be forked to a thousand other platforms, including private git repositories hosted locally. That cat is out of the bag and fortunately there's not a damn thing they can do about it
You're biased.
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Yeah, so what?
It's, legally speaking, not Yuzu's domain to regulate what I can lawfully do within my own home with hardware I bought , or not. It's not even Nintendon't's domain, and they are literally a Yakuza branch.
Nintendo makes me want to emulate more and more
What are you playing on? I would play my switch more if the games weren't so expensive.
Don’t mind me if I fork
Don't fork, they go down if the original goes down. Download and reupload.
Or fork to a different system, e.g. Gogs/Gitea/ForgeJo/GitLab…
Might as well set the groundwork to make it easier to shut down any emulators for the new console. Can't have old steam deck and others taking the handheld market
nintendos shitty hardware is the only thing keeping me from buying their excellent games. I would rather buy a steam deck and deal with all the associated bullshit getting an emulator working rather than purchase nintendo's terrible plastic shit.
i sound angry, but thats because i am. i love their games, would give them my money to play them. BUT NOT on crap hardware. never, ever again, nintendo.
harrrumph
I don't have a problem with the tech being old as long as the games are good, but the failure rate of their joycons and pro controllers is abysmal! I got a converter to use a PS5 controller on the Switch and it's much better!
Someone sue Nintendo for gatekeeping.
Fuck you Nintendo, nobody should give you a dime
What's the crowd funding site for Yuzu legal fees?
https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam
Or you could wait until the EFF commits to representing Yuzu (like they did for youtube-dl) and donate to the EFF at that point
There's a request on r/yuzu for a GoFundMe, but it has no response from the devs so far.
Any news on this?
They offer legal aid to high-profile open source cases. So if you want them to notice, raising awareness of Nintendo's current actions against Yuzu is a good step
I'm very uninformed here, haven't gamed in a few years. But I've got a question- is yuzu software that is run on a rooted Switch device, or similar like a steam deck? Or do you run it on a computer? Or perhaps, it's all of the above.
Anyway, thanks in advance if someone could give me a high level overview
Steam Deck is just a Linux computer, but it runs on any computer running Linux, Windows, or apparently Android, with capable hardware. It looks like it isn't ready for Mac yet, though Ryujinx supposedly is.
It doesn't run on a rooted Switch as far as I'm aware, but I don't see the point in that. There's no need to emulate the hardware if you're actually using the hardware.
Steamdeck(Linux), PC and Android.
Android, eh? Is it meant for phones, or is there a other set of android devices this is for?
It's mainly meant for desktop I think. I suspect you need a very powerful android