Switch Emulator Yuzu Shuts Down as It Settles Nintendo Lawsuit for $2.4 Million - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 March 2024 / 5,012 Views
The creator of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, Tropic Haze, was sued by Nintendo in February and has now settled with the gaming giant.
Tropic Haze is paying Nintendo $2.4 million in damages and will no longer be allowed to offer or market Yuzu or any of its source code.
Members are no longer allowed to create any future software that circumvents Nintendo's technical protection. Tropic Haze has been ordered to surrender all website domains and information related to the Switch emulator Yuzu. This is part of the part of the judgment by the US District Court of Rhode Island.
The company must delete all circumvention tools used for developing or using Yuzu—such as TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer" and give Nintendo all "physical circumvention devices" and "modified Nintendo hardware."
The injunction is a binding court order and if Tropic Haze or its members violate it they will be subject to the Court's content authority.
"We write today to inform you that yuzu and yuzu’s support of Citra are being discontinued, effective immediately," reads a statement from Yuzu.
"Yuzu and its team have always been against piracy. We started the projects in good faith, out of passion for Nintendo and its consoles and games, and were not intending to cause harm. But we see now that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo’s technological protection measures and allow users to play games outside of authorized hardware, they have led to extensive piracy. In particular, we have been deeply disappointed when users have used our software to leak game content prior to its release and ruin the experience for legitimate purchasers and fans.
"We have come to the decision that we cannot continue to allow this to occur. Piracy was never our intention, and we believe that piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end. Effective today, we will be pulling our code repositories offline, discontinuing our Patreon accounts and Discord servers, and, soon, shutting down our websites. We hope our actions will be a small step toward ending piracy of all creators’ works."
— yuzu (@yuzuemu) March 4, 2024
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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i don't feel sorry for anyone profiting from piracy
They only made the emulator.... nothing else. I think all their profits came from donations, of people, that want them to quickly improve the emulator.
The internet: Nintendo doesn't care about game preservation because they are killing emulators
Also the internet: sigh Nintendo selling us old games again
A VERRY select phew old games
Verry
Verry select
It's a bit more then a "VERY" select "FEW" and people are just using the "preservation" stance as a sort of get out of jail free card, even though they are emulating games that you can buy now...
I'm seeing more people online get upset with Nintendo for this then I saw people get mad at Sony for killing off 900 jobs for no reason
Yuzu devs dug their own grave bragging around like they were untouchable. They ensured their own demise.
They FA, now they FO.
“Always been against piracy”, but also made an emulator and ‘circumvention tools’. 🤔
People seemed sure Nintendo would lose this one.
Nintendo would lose, but they would keep appealing and drown the others in legal fees. This is the cheaper option for Tropic Haze.
No Nintendo wouldn't lose, becouse the Yuza devs did break the law.
Nintendo ninjas struck.
People doing mental gymnastic to justify Yuzu. Y'all forget so fast, the industry is having massive layoff and some blame Nintendo for going against a distributer that promoted their biggest game on their platform before it even releases..... This is nonsense really.
Well, at least we still have ryujinx
From Nintendo's perspective this seems like the sort of thing that would have made more sense years ago, as nobody who has been using Yuzu for years is likely to go pick up a Switch now, but maybe their main intention is actually to deter emulation of their next console ahead of time.
It's sad that Citra won't be updated anymore. It's good. but it still needs improvement.
Sad
