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  • I don't really get what's happening. Why now and not 10 years ago?

    Previously people would say it wasn't pursued before because emulation itself is just reverse engineering, which is legal.

    • i think it's because the next console is coming out next year and they want to discourage anyone from trying to crack it

      they didn't win a court case, nintendo just threatened to sue and settled on the condition that yuzu (and citra through yuzu) be shut down and pay like 2 million dollars. if nintendo thought they could win they wouldn't have settled, they would have pushed through and won and permanently rendered emulators illegal. but they couldn't do that, so they'll just try and scare everyone off from doing anythign

      • Also the speculation is that the Switch 2 is basically just an upgraded Switch, so the thought is that with very little effort emulators like Yuzu would be able to play Switch 2 games. Nintendo wants to shut it down ahead of that happening to try to prevent the Switch 2 architecture from being cracked for as long as possible.

        That said with Yuzu being open source, Nintendo won't win that fight in the long term. But it will probably delay the Switch 2 emulator development by quite a bit which their bean counters assume is a win.

      • Makes sense, I guess. Fuck Nintendo.

        They're both open source projects. So it will be interesting how much time they'll spend playing whackamole. Either way, it will chill development bc at the very least the main devs will probably not go back. Sad.

        Citra going down really hurts because CTGP-7 is such a great project, and I feel like this is going to chill big projects too.

  • I'm probably the biggest Disney Nintendo Adult who posts here, and even I think this is stupid as hell. I've got a whole fucking shelf of (3)DS games we paid for, but can't play because our 3DS broke and isn't repairable. Citra let us play them.

    Eat my shit and hair, Nintendo.

    • if you have linux HURRY!!!!!!! IT'S STILL AVAILABLE ON FLATHUB!!!!!!!!!

      Also afaik if you have it already your install won't be affected.

      • I have a little garden that I keep on my backup drive. It contains all the emulation projects that Nintendo killed. And sometimes stole, for profit.

        Don't worry about me. I've been archiving Nintendo IP since before most of this site was born.

  • NO THEY GOT YUZU?!?

    • yuzu settled out of court, but the terms were basically yuzu giving up literally everything and never working on anything similar ever again and also paying nintendo 2.4 million dollars

      at least they don't owe nintendo all the money they make for the rest of their lives like happened with that other guy i suppose

      • Greg Bowser, whose debt slavery to Nintendo includes garnishing his meager prison wages.

        :nintendo-cool:

      • It's worse, actually. They must also argue to a judge that:

        Developing or distributing software, including Yuzu, that in its ordinary course functions only when cryptographic keys are integrated without authorization, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition on trafficking in devices that circumvent effective technological measures, because the software is primarily designed for the purpose of circumventing technological measures.

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