Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
www.theverge.com
Just about a week after getting sued.

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/

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Nintendo’s angle is more along the lines of:

      • We gave our friend Switchy the keys to a lockbox.
      • You tricked Switchy into giving you our keys.
      • We didn’t authorize you to use those keys.
      • Using our keys without our permission is circumventing our DRM.
      • Yuzu is a tool that enables you to use our keys.
      • It’s illegal to distribute tools to circumvent DRM.

      It’s a massive reach, but it’s a plausible argument—or even a good one if the judge is a technologically illiterate luddite. Beyond that, Nintendo is the kind of litigant that will drag out a lawsuit until the other party is forced to settle.

      • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        A court in Germany has recently decided that reading the code of a software you legally purchased and finding plain text passwords there is illegal hacking.

        The person was hired to do a security audit (by a third party) and disclosed the finding to the software developer, not even to his own employer.

        The developer decided to sue him instead of fixing the problem.

        At this point I have lost all trust in the technological capacities of judges out there.

        • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          Not sure it will ever get better. Maybe a single person being allowed to decide a case that requires a technical understanding should be consulted by experts in it. I guess a better lawyer probably should have made that happen (shouldn’t have to). But, as the old geezers die off and the younger “tech savvy” people take over, they will no longer be young or tech savvy, technologywill keep progressing and pass us up too. And you don’t want an actual young person as a judge. So… the system is just broken.

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Because you’re using the system outside of its intended purpose to break the law. That’s basically the definition of hacking.

      I’m not sure why it being illegal to sell a tool to do that is a hard concept to grasp for so many people.

      I’m not against emulation or pirating, but no shit this was going to happen eventually.

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        The electronic key I purchased and collected from my own hardware is “hacking” because Nintendo’s doesn’t intend it? Maybe the legality of selling a tool to get the key is a hard concept to grasp because the premise is objectionable. If a Switch makes a good doorstop then it will be doing it’s “intended purpose” if that’s what I intend for my property.

        I’m against companies having unjust control over our own computing.

  • markr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I started out in the computer industry working for a company that reverse engineered and built IBM compatible terminal systems, This was more than 40 years ago, when that was its own large and profitable sector of the computer hardware market. It was absolutely legal to build ‘plug compatible’ reverse engineered third party systems. DRM is almost entirely horseshit that has helped turn the entire tech industry into silo’d enshittified monopolies.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    The fuck? Why? Emulators are entirely legal and they could’ve won

  • sploosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I own a launch era Switch. When I run Yuzu, I use the keys that I pulled off of it. When I play games in Yuzu, they are games I have purchased and dumped using the Switch Nintendo sold me. The controller I use is a Nintendo Pro controller. I play on my computer because it is MUCH better at playing Switch games than my overclocked Switch is. Just fuck off with this Nintendo, stop making your games worse.

      • sploosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Your Switch needs to be hackable. If yours is any revision beyond the initial release chances are you are out of luck. I set it up a long while ago so I can’t recall the steps, but googling “Nintendo switch overclock” will get you what you’re looking for.

        The Switch is based on the Nvidia Shield, whose stock clocks are roughly double the Switch’s. This means you can OC it without exceeding the manufacturer’s specs, which is pretty neat. Bringing the memory clocks up really helps titles like ToTK.

        • discomatic@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          I have a hackable Switch but I’m afraid of bricking it or something. Is that a concern? I’m pretty technically inclined but no genius.

          • sploosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It is dead simple, just make sure you get one of the little jobbies that you slide down the right joycon rail to short the pins that you need shorted - you’ll be doing it often when you’re setting things up and you don’t want to be messing around with a bit of wire. I seriously doubt that you will brick anything, especially if you take your time and read everything through before you get started. These instructions should get you where you want to be.