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Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator must cease operations after $2.4M lawsuit (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 118 points 6 months ago

It's funny, before this, I was just going to buy a legit copy and play it on my Deck (I have a Switch, but prefer the Deck)

Now, fuck those guys. If I play at all, it'll be on a pirated copy.

[-] Cuttlersan@beehaw.org 32 points 6 months ago

Deck is superior to Switch! And obligatory F—- Nintendo, and their 1990’s mindset with games and hardware. I’m convinced they’ll have to financially fail to start caring. Even a 30% reduction in their sales and player counts should quickly seize their attention.

At this point 2024 is looking like the Year Of Nintendo’s Failures starting off with Palworld. They certainly deserve to fail!

[-] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 6 months ago

With all that free money, it looks like Nintendo will be just fine if I never purchase another one of their games. Hell, I may even offer to hack some of my friends' systems just to spite Nintendo.

[-] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna rcm my switch now and copy my animal crossing island to my PC to be emulated. Shoulda done that a long time ago to have a backup that I actually own instead of having to pay Nintendo to keep my save data backed up. I see no reason to play any more Nintendo games on my switch, much less purchase any more when I have my steam deck.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 88 points 6 months ago

So this defensive strategy was planned from the beginning. The L in LLC stands for limited. It means Nintendo won't get any money. Tropic Haze LLC declares bankruptcy and tells Nintendo "our assets are two rolls of toilet paper and this empty can of coke, GL with getting your millions". Certainly cheaper than fighting a top lawyer team with unlimited funding

[-] N00dle@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Yeah the LLC structure always seemed weird to people. After what happened to Bowser serving prison sentence and having his future earnings garnished for the rest of his life, this might have been the smart play. Yuzu group will never be able to pay the 2 mil. Company goes under and owners walk away from this escaping real harm.

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 71 points 6 months ago

And no one ever pirated a Nintendo game ever again.

In other news:

Switch sales up 2000%!
Nintendo stock reaches all-time high!
Half-Life 3 released!

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

The poor Nintendo executives can finally afford to go to space, like they deserve!

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

Via jettison? 🤞🏻

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Straight into the sun!

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 58 points 6 months ago

That was fast.

[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 6 months ago

Saw this coming and made sure to update one last time. Ill probably just switch to Ryujinx at some point.

RIP Yuzu

[-] TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 6 months ago

It isn’t dead yet. The source code was downloaded by a bunch of people when the lawsuit was announced, so there’s already forks being uploaded to other accounts.

[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Its dead. Another project based on it source code might arise but it won't be the same team and will take a while before it would be smart to trust the new project.

My guess is the most recent version of Yuzu, as a stand alone, will probably work for a long time anyway. So i guess there is that...

[-] TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago

That’s what I mean. They say you aren’t truly dead until the last person forgets your name. Yuzu might not have the same team going forward, but the source code is there, and somebody will continue the project. We won’t forget where it came from, and so Yuzu will live on.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Agreed. Same thing with Tachiyomi a couple of months back. It still lives on

[-] TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Yup, and on iOS it’s called Tachimanga, and is a direct port of Tachiyomi.

[-] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 6 months ago

True just look at how long project64 v1.6 has been around

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[-] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 6 months ago

And just like that, Nintendo have guaranteed to never get a dime of my money again 🏴‍☠️

What a greedy corpo. I'll be waiting on the MVG video covering all the legal details whenever that drops

[-] darlingchef@links.hackliberty.org 12 points 6 months ago

Same, and they fucked up the Citra Emulation too, and it's the only 3DS Emulator. Nintendo may makes great games, but they are better in a museum than fucking up the industry like that.

Sony will follow these steps.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

MVG dropped a video today giving his thoughts on it

[-] mudle@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As of right now Citra and Yuzu are both available via Flathub!! If you want them there's still time!!!!

[-] N00dle@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Lol install statistics shot up when initial news broke last week.

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[-] xor@infosec.pub 24 points 6 months ago

nintendo? more like nintendon't!

[-] neeeeDanke@feddit.de 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Anyone know where to get the most recent linux build as a .deb? I wanna have an installer in case I have to wipe my os or something like that.

[-] JPAKx4 8 points 6 months ago

I heard the flat pack is still up

[-] neeeeDanke@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but is there a way to download flatpacks for an Install at another time?

I wanna be able to install it at a later point in time (for example when I reinstall my system)

[-] Carol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yep, snap too

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

apt download yuzu will download the deb file (but not dependencies) of the latest release to the PWD. But if you want the latest dev version, you'll have to build from source.

[-] neeeeDanke@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks, I didn't know this was an option :D.

[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

GitHub releases?

[-] neeeeDanke@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Their git hub is gone

[-] revan829@meow.social 19 points 6 months ago

@mr_MADAFAKA between this and sending Gary Bowser to jail and taking money from him while in prison ... i will NEVER buy another nintendo product. I should have come to this conclusion LONG ago ... but i guess better late than never.
#fucknintendo

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 months ago

Are there any viable Yuzu or Citra forks?

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago

Fuck Nintendo. Bunch of money hungry cunts. I hope their sales plummet. Emulation isn't illegal but here fucking are being forced to buy their horrendously shitty console to play a game. Glad I bought mine secondhand and already sold it. You once had honour. Now you can commit seppuku

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I guess this is damage control, since they are afraid of setting a precedent of potentially killing off legal emulation in the US for good.

There's no chance, an emulator dev team can take it up against Nintendo's lawyers.

Don't blame Nintendo, blame capitalism.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

Both. Blame both.

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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

this case does not set any legal precedent, but it's still a shame they settled.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

Cowards. Both Nintendo and the devs for not even bothering with fighting back.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 6 months ago

Ahh look at that, a person on the internet having a big mouth without actually having knowledge into the matter. Nothing new.

They are not cowards at all.

Never take on a corporate company that has billions to spend for the suing. They took the smartest and best route for themselves and that’s what matters - what’s best for them.

If you want someone to “fight” against Nintendo, be the change! Do it yourself.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you want someone to “fight” against Nintendo, be the change! Do it yourself.

And also probably live in Russia (or another CIS state) you know, like most of the famous crackers who still do this and continue to get away with it. Otherwise they (Nintendo or some other western Corpo) will just do the same thing all over again.

Or you could just have a team there, but it didn't work so well for Gary Bowser, so if you go that route consider the first option.