Law Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu - Emulator tools aren't inherently illegal, but the way in which Yuzu is being actively used and promoted is what Nintendo appears to be objecting to here.

New documents filed Monday, February 26 reveal that videogame giant Nintendo is taking action against the creators of the popular emulator tool Yuzu.

The copyright infringement filing, from Nintendo of America, states that the Yuzu tool (from developer Tropic Haze LLC) illegally circumvents the software encryption and copyright protection systems of Nintendo Switch titles, and thus facilitates piracy and infringes copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Nintendo alleges that Tropic Haze's free Yuzu emulator tool unlawfully allows pirated Switch games to be played on PCs and other devices, bypassing Nintendo's protection measures.

The official Yuzu website suggests that the tool is to be used with software you yourself own: "You are legally required to dump your games from your Nintendo Switch" — but it's common knowledge, that this is not how these tools are primarily used.

The legal document claims that over a million copies of last year's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom were downloaded prior to the game's official retail release.

Additionally, Nintendo's filing points to the success of Yuzu's Patreon page, highlighting how the project is actively supported by over 7,000 members. At time of writing, the Yuzu Patreon currently brings in close to $30,000 USD per month. Nintendo's filing alludes that this Patreon page has been actively engaged in promoting the emulator, and thus by extension piracy.

Emulator tools aren't inherently illegal, but the way in which Yuzu is being actively used and promoted is what Nintendo appears to be objecting to here.

As a result, Nintendo is now seeking a trial by jury, damages, and is demanding that the Yuzu emulator is shut down.

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[The Early 2000s]

Did yuzu's paywall for the most recent builds really fuck them over? Or is that just a nothingburger and Nintendo was going to do this anyhow? I don't care about Nintendo shit but when I saw they had a Patreon for their emulator, with content behind subscriptions, I thought that was trouble waiting to happen.

 

[Freelance Police]

you are still the same Nintendo faggot, because you will promote their product to dumber, younger generations, who will, in turn, buy the product.

Congratulations on figuring out why piracy isn't the black and white issue publishers like to pretend it to be

I'm not being obtuse, I'm being realistic, who the fuck does homebrew on 2024, it died on Dreamcast and Wii times, mainly because of the monkey torture wii channel and shit like that

Anybody running modded games, be it randomizers for shit like Pokemon and Fire emblem, entire reworks like TR4SH, MHGU Cope, SMO Superstar mode, or Katana Zero's Dragon Mod on console, or anything using simple texture swaps are running homebrew or emulation to play any of this shit. Same goes for anybody running other emulators on console like Retroarch.

why in the fuck are you buying nintendo product in the first place if you know it's going to look and play like shit?

So I can dump it and play it on better hardware with enhancements and/or mods for a better overall experience than what Nintendo is able to provide to me by themselves.

after experiencing the disgusting shit that SMT V was

SMTV's protagonist is a femboy tranny I don't know why you expected anything good to come out of this game. Also I don't know why you're crying about Nintendo faggots when you yourself are a Nintendo faggot.

OP is a butthurt faggot

OP posted a news article and an archive link, and I'm sure they are a wonderful and heterosexual individual. Project harder bing boy.

 

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First off, homebrew does exist. Second off, some people might actually want to play the games they do legally own but they want to be able to play them in a way that doesn't look like shit. Some people, like me, would rather play PM:TTYD with textures that don't look like they were put through a wheat thresher.

Ah yes, the homebrew cope. Wonderful. The 0.000000000000001% of people that use homebrew matter, I'm sure.

As for the rest? Yeah you don't actually have the right to do any of that. If you want to play Switch games in 4k, buy a 4k upscaler. They're under $100 now. If you want them to look better, with better textures, wait for the HD re-release in a decade or two.

Whatever Yuzu iteration that survives will probably work as you mention, you having the cartridge (Nintencuck) and paying for extra hardware to run it non natively, until they buy whatever law to prohibit nintendo products oot of their intended hardware.

No, there's no way to do that. You can't just connect a Nintendo switch art to the PC and Nintendo has NEGATIVE interest in making their games available on that platform.

Yuzu will reappear in a month as Yoozoo instead of Yuzu and life will go on with nothing changing. This little song and dance has been going on literally since the original NES with the lockout chip, and it will never end until shit like Stadia becomes viable tech.

Did yuzu's paywall for the most recent builds really fuck them over? Or is that just a nothingburger and Nintendo was going to do this anyhow? I don't care about Nintendo shit but when I saw they had a Patreon for their emulator, with content behind subscriptions, I thought that was trouble waiting to happen.

I'm hearing from multiple sources now that apparently the "early adopter" builds were coding around DRM for newer releases. That would mean that Yuzu was actively getting leaked and cracked Nintendo games and cracking the DRM for their emulator, specifically for their supporters to play. Any lawyer worth their salt is going to look at that situation and go "settle. for the love of god, settle."

Anybody running modded games, be it randomizers for shit like Pokemon and Fire emblem, entire reworks like TR4SH, MHGU Cope, SMO Superstar mode, or Katana Zero's Dragon Mod on console, or anything using simple texture swaps are running homebrew or emulation to play any of this shit. Same goes for anybody running other emulators on console like Retroarch.

Every randomizer I know of runs on a website or PC app and then you move the rom over. But whoops, turns out that's piracy. Rework mods? DMCA violation and probably piracy. Texture swaps? DMCA violation. Retroarch on Switch? Piracy.

 

[Terrifik]

I do love the blackpill WEF swagger from Nitendo.

https://twitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1764731041141440843

In this lawsuit Nintendo argued all the following:

- That emulating any modern console is illegal
- That hacking your own console is illegal
- That dumping your own ROMs from games you bought is illegal

 

[Bowiotronic]

Congratulations on figuring out why piracy isn't the black and white issue publishers like to pretend it to be < faggot opinion I'm not even going to humour this.

Anybody running modded games, be it randomizers for shit like Pokemon and Fire emblem, entire reworks like TR4SH, MHGU Cope, SMO Superstar mode, or Katana Zero's Dragon Mod on console, or anything using simple texture swaps are running homebrew or emulation to play any of this shit. Same goes for anybody running other emulators on console like Retroarch.< so autistic retards on twitch running randomizers is your gray area, or shit that has been abandoned and taken up by faggots, yes, this clearly exonerates all emulation because twitch plays pokemon is a thing that exists.

So I can dump it and play it on better hardware with enhancements and/or mods for a better overall experience than what Nintendo is able to provide to me by themselves.< the nintendo faggot that, again, pays extra for castrated software, has to buy extra machinery to make it work, albeit conceitedly, because you can get sued updeass if you make money through said software.

SMTV's protagonist is a femboy tranny I don't know why you expected anything good to come out of this game. Also I don't know why you're crying about Nintendo faggots when you yourself are a Nintendo faggot.< pot calling the kettle a nigger, I agree on SMT V being shit, no more comment.

OP posted a news article and an archive link, and I'm sure they are a wonderful and heterosexual individual. Project harder bing boy. <Bitch nigger both xim and you.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Yuzu just released a statement, it also appears that support for Citra is also ending.
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Archive of statement on domain before it gets yoinked by Nintendo:

https://archive.ph/kUOS5

I want to see if Nintendo does anything special with the domain or just redirects to nintendo.com

Citra still alive for the moment:

https://citra-emu.org/

Edit: Now it's gone.

 

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I do love the blackpill WEF swagger from Nitendo.

https://twitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1764731041141440843

Yes, the DMCA exists, and it bans all of those things. Welcome to 20 years ago, CentroLeaks.

I'm not saying I agree with it. But it is what it is and it won't change.

Emulation is legal, but breaking the encryption in order to emulate anything is a crime.

Archive of statement on domain before it gets yoinked by Nintendo:

https://archive.ph/kUOS5

I want to see if Nintendo does anything special with the domain or just redirects to nintendo.com

Someone on reddit suggested they could use Yuzu's auto-updater to delete/destroy any copies of Yuzu that try to update.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

lol
how did nintendo fuck Yuzu so hard in comparison to dolphin and other emulators they wanted to nuke for years

Because the people that make Dolphin and SNES9x are/were smart enough not to try and monetize their emulator directly on Patreon. That goes 1000x for Yuzu since it is emulating a modern system and Ryujinx wasn't caught up in this case despite emulating the same system.

Moral of the story: Don't tempt fate by getting greedy.

 

[tehpope]

Because the people that make Dolphin and SNES9x are/were smart enough not to try and monetize their emulator directly on Patreon. That goes 1000x for Yuzu since it is emulating a modern system and Ryujinx wasn't caught up in this case despite emulating the same system.

Moral of the story: Don't tempt fate by getting greedy.

Donate to the devs directly.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

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I do love the blackpill WEF swagger from Nitendo.

https://twitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1764731041141440843

Ah people learning the law exists. Always funny.

 

[TyrasGuard]

Software is dramatically different from all other kinds of products, yes.

I said videogames, as in, a niche of software, if you will. A finished videogame is for all intent and purposes a finished product put into a store like any other product.

So I can dump it and play it on better hardware with enhancements and/or mods for a better overall experience than what Nintendo is able to provide to me by themselves.

Bro, the ratio of people who pirate shit because they didn't want to pay for it compared to the amount of people who want to enhance the game via mods is like 10000:1

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

Donate to the devs directly.

Exactly. Even if it isn't illegal per se, don't put yourself in a situation where you tie your emulator with your revenue source directly. If the Yuzu devs had done this, they wouldn't have to close up shop. It's not me defending Nintendo and their retarded case so much as making this being a very clear case of if you are doing something possibly illegal, don't try and make money off of it openly.

This isn't really about piracy as much as it is about not showing off.

 

[Kyuruma]

All I'm seeing here is the Yuzu devs royally fucked up publicly and obviously somewhere along the line and it was aggregious enough to cause them to settle.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I mean, hacking a Switch costs nothing and it’s the same with most other consoles. And the additional hardware doesn’t either.

I’m saying they’ll go through more effort not to pay than something $50 is actually worth. Such needless effort.

What magical world do you live in where Nintendo handheld games are still under 60 dollars?

 

[ovenmath]

I mean, hacking a Switch costs nothing and it’s the same with most other consoles. And the additional hardware doesn’t either.

I’m saying they’ll go through more effort not to pay than something $50 is actually worth. Such needless effort.

the big downside of hacking a switch is having to play on a switch.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Archived the few unarchived Ryujinx blog posts:

https://archive.ph/blog.ryujinx.org

Will be interesting to see if they respond in their next one. Or, you know, get sued by Nintendo.

 

[Freelance Police]

so autistic retards on twitch running randomizers is your gray area, or shit that has been abandoned and taken up by faggots, yes, this clearly exonerates all emulation because twitch plays pokemon is a thing that exists.

Yes imo because I disagree with the written law regarding copyright that outlaws creative modifications to games that can increase their entertainment value and longevity as a product. I'm not saying this "exonerates" anything, I just think copyright is retarded. I'm sorry that Disney and all the damage they've done to copyright has buck broken you so hard that you fail to see or enjoy the value in modifications like this.

the nintendo faggot that, again, pays extra for castrated software, has to buy extra machinery to make it work, albeit conceitedly, because you can get sued updeass if you make money through said software.

I own a computer completely independent of what Nintendo does to play other video games and shitpost on the Internet, as I'm sure most other people do. It just happens to be flexible enough to run shit like Citra, because you know, it's a fucking computer.

faggot opinion I'm not even going to humour this.

Sneed. Also learn how quotes work.

Bro, the ratio of people who pirate shit because they didn't want to pay for it compared to the amount of people who want to enhance the game via mods is like 10000:1

Undoubtedly, the majority of people emulating are pirates. Anybody pretending that this isn't true is deluded. I was just answering the guys question honestly as somebody who does like modding their shit.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

What magical world do you live in where Nintendo handheld games are still under 60 dollars?

Really, unless you are mainline Pokemon games - and even then only a few of them - or something absurdly niche the handheld games go for penuts.

Most the Switch games go for under 60 as well if you give them long enough if they are first party. If they aren’t they were under 60 anyways.

the big downside of hacking a switch is having to play on a switch.

Is unfortunate, yes.

 

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All I'm seeing here is the Yuzu devs royally fucked up publicly and obviously somewhere along the line and it was aggregious enough to cause them to settle.

I really wish someone had Patreon access to confirm if Yuzu was really offering day 1 DRM cracks for supporters. Cause if true it was literally only a matter of time before Big N shut them down.

 

[Bowiotronic]

Yes imo because I disagree with the written law regarding copyright that outlaws creative modifications to games that can increase their entertainment value and longevity as a product. I'm not saying this "exonerates" anything, I just think copyright is retarded. I'm sorry that Disney and all the damage they've done to copyright has buck broken you so hard that you fail to see or enjoy the value in modifications like this.

I'm sorry that you are a sniveling retard that uses a shit argument to cover for all emulation, clearly, when they see your input, Copyright laws will retract and only cater to your interests, Copyright being retarded is only going to get worse. Just because "you can increase the entertainment value and longevity" does not make you the propietor of the abandoned product because you don't own shit as a customer, you're just too low value to be sued, I take a fat shit on this entertainment and longevity, as it is the crutch excuse you use to tamper with the software.

I own a computer completely independent of what Nintendo does to play other video games and shitpost on the Internet, as I'm sure most other people do. It just happens to be flexible enough to run shit like Citra, because you know, it's a fucking computer.

Again, because we use computers we're not entitled to everything that the computer can do, the one I have is most probably better than yours, so I guess it runs Citra better, also, let's hope they don't BTFO Citra as well, given the statements that they have uttered.

Sneed. Also learn how quotes work.

Point taken and it stings like leprosy.