Dolphin were planning to release a Steam version, but it was DMCA'd by Nintendo due to decryption keys from the Wii being included.They tried to sue Dolphin, didn't they? They did try to sue some emulation group in the past, but they lost. This could possibly just be scare tactics.
Source: VGCThe creator of a popular Nintendo Switch emulator has settled a Nintendo lawsuit and agreed to pay $2.4 million in damages.
Tropic Haze, the creator of the Switch emulator Yuzu, was sued by Nintendo last month. The platform holder had claimed that Yuzu was “facilitating piracy at a colossal scale”.
On Monday, the two parties mutually agreed on a monetary settlement and permanent injunction.
As part of the judgment by the US District Court of Rhode Island, Tropic Haze was issued with a permanent injunction preventing it from offering or marketing Yuzu or any of its source code in the future.
Its members are also prevented from creating any future software that circumvents Nintendo’s technical protection, and Tropic Haze must surrender all website domains and information related to its emulator.
This permanent injunction constitutes a binding court order, and any violations by Tropic Haze or its members will subject them to the full scope of the Court’s contempt authority, including punitive and monetary sanctions.
In its initial lawsuit documents, Nintendo claimed that last year’s biggest Switch release, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was pirated over one million times in the week and a half before its release in May.
“With Yuzu in hand, nothing stops a user from obtaining and playing unlawful copies of virtually any game made for the Nintendo Switch, all without paying a dime to Nintendo or to any of the hundreds of other game developers and publishers making and selling games for the Nintendo Switch,” the company said.
“In effect, Yuzu turns general computing devices into tools for massive intellectual property infringement of Nintendo and others’ copyrighted works.”
This hasn't been the case in decades. I need some difficulty to find a game fun.I'd love Nintendo since they're the only major video game company that hasn't fully abandoned the philosophy of video games being genuinely fun video games
I downloaded it just last week on an out-of-the-blue whim. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
112 tranny flags...
Ah yes, Discord.
I think they are having a hard time coping with the reality that Citra is gone. Just like they are having a hard time coping with the fact that they never will be a real woman.112 tranny flags...
Ah yes, Discord.
Maybe they're saying that this announcement is gay.
Cross posting from the emulation thread: Citra bites the dust. I like the way he pretends that they were disappointed by people using emulation for piracy.
I actually managed to grab what was possibly the last main build todayHe's dead, Jim
https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu
The way I understood this whole debacleI wonder what will be the reaction from ryujinx developers, if they're gonna stop working on the emulator too fearing a lawsuit from Nintendo aswell.
To be fair there was no other play for Yuzu here. What were they gonna do? Outlitigate Nintendo? Another thing to keep in mind is this doesn't benefit anyone as Ryujinx just lost its biggest competitor and can now afford to just coast along.BREAKING
Switch emulator creator settles Nintendo lawsuit for $2.4m
The creator of a popular Nintendo Switch emulator has settled a Nintendo lawsuit and agreed to pay $2.4 million in damages.
Tropic Haze, the creator of the Switch emulator Yuzu, was sued by Nintendo last month. The platform holder had claimed that Yuzu was “facilitating piracy at a colossal scale”.
On Monday, the two parties mutually agreed on a monetary settlement and permanent injunction.
As part of the judgment by the US District Court of Rhode Island, Tropic Haze was issued with a permanent injunction preventing it from offering or marketing Yuzu or any of its source code in the future.
Its members are also prevented from creating any future software that circumvents Nintendo’s technical protection, and Tropic Haze must surrender all website domains and information related to its emulator.
This permanent injunction constitutes a binding court order, and any violations by Tropic Haze or its members will subject them to the full scope of the Court’s contempt authority, including punitive and monetary sanctions.
In its initial lawsuit documents, Nintendo claimed that last year’s biggest Switch release, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was pirated over one million times in the week and a half before its release in May.
“With Yuzu in hand, nothing stops a user from obtaining and playing unlawful copies of virtually any game made for the Nintendo Switch, all without paying a dime to Nintendo or to any of the hundreds of other game developers and publishers making and selling games for the Nintendo Switch,” the company said.
“In effect, Yuzu turns general computing devices into tools for massive intellectual property infringement of Nintendo and others’ copyrighted works.”