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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[Terrifik]

https://archive.org/details/yuzu-mainline

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They knew what was coming, the cheeky little bastards.

Edit:

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Yuzu+Team%22&sort=-date

They're still uploading as of today. Don't tell Nintendo.

it's most likely to settle patron for the month
& bet on tainted & lacking material.
bet on patron closes later this week.
love the Yuzu Reddit cope

https://www.reddit.com/r/yuzu/

https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam

 

[Breadbassket]

The perks of honestly caring about being a console and game developer more than Sony or Microsoft I guess.

Nintendo as a company seems to have a completely different philosophy when it comes to consoles compared to their competitors. They appear to focus more on brand and experiences rather then hyper realistic graphics and huge blockbuster games that cost millions of dollars to develop that can make or break game studios.

Their approach has definitely worked out well in the long run.

 

[Bowiotronic]

"Fuck soyboy nintendniggers for always buying their shit and letting them act like this"
:b:itch nigger opinion, if I pirated kiwifarms I'd be liable to shit, emulator faggots either are breaking the law by providing pirated copies or are speshul chromoflakes that can't afford shit, effectively making them immune to the law, how about not fucking participating in the nintendo circus none way and the other instead of believing yourself Cloud from FF7 because you downloaded Tears Of the Catboy Kingdom? especially when there's millions of F2P products and entertainment that have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with nintendo, OP is a butthurt faggot, again, especially if you think that the average Smash buyer has any opinion or power on anything.

Intellectual Property is pertaining to their owners, just because you know how to bypass anticopies phisically (like setting the Dreamcast on fire, until it takes you to the that menu, where you can download all you need to pirate the hardware and software) doesn't make you a hero, you are still the same Nintendo faggot, because you will promote their product to dumber, younger generations, who will, in turn, buy the product. I still have to see videogame stores closing because families will just not participate of Weeptendo.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Nig-tendo claims they lost "a massive amounts of sales" but is willing to settle for $2.4m.
Yeah, no, this was them trying to bully the developers. It's pretty much in line with their M.O. of wanting control before anything else.

 

[Bowiotronic]

Nig-tendo claims they lost "a massive amounts of sales" but is willing to settle for $2.4m.
Yeah, no, this was them trying to bully the developers.

Copyright is a use or lose tool.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Copyright is a use or lose tool.

That's trademarks.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Nintendo as a company seems to have a completely different philosophy when it comes to consoles compared to their competitors. They appear to focus more on brand and experiences rather then hyper realistic graphics and huge blockbuster games that cost millions of dollars to develop that can make or break game studios.

Their approach has definitely worked out well in the long run.

Well that and again, Micro and Sony are more than just console makers Mm. The brand, hardware and software is all Nintendo has. So they will protect it with an iron fist.

 

[Bowiotronic]

That's trademarks.

Weird flex but okay, still it's their IP and they need to defend it, or face consequences with their contractors, I'm sorry if I confused shit with diarrhea.

 

[Breadbassket]

it's most likely to settle patron for the month
& bet on tainted & lacking material.
bet on patron closes later this week.
love the Yuzu Reddit cope

https://www.reddit.com/r/yuzu/

https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam

Some Posts:

 

[HTTP Error 404]

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.

Since when? I thought they had a hardware refresh and only original retail Switches were software hackable? Nowadays you have to buy a modchip, yeah?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

there's also the core reality that emulators are legal in the USA and have been for decades regardless of if you make money on it

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Since when? I thought they had a hardware refresh and only original retail Switches were software hackable? Nowadays you have to buy a modchip, yeah?

There’s so many old hardware out there it’s easy to get hold of.

The question honestly now is whether Switch 2 will be harder to break.

 

[Bowiotronic]

there's also the core reality that emulators are legal in the USA and have been for decades regardless of if you make money on it

Legal in the retarded MIG switch way, in which you dump the ROMS into the cartridge, but you still are the owner of the cartridges and the hardware, and have paid dearly to shitendo for them, go with a pirated switch to a local precinct and tell them that, see what they have to say.
Believe me, no one wants that, people want the full dump on their pirated console.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Legal in the legal way

there's a lot more to emulation than video games, it's one of the earlier aspects of getting online

 

[ShooterOfCum]

The troubles they will go through to not pay for a game console is unbelievable

Everyone is entitled to run software however they want. It should not be held hostage on some Chinese tablet. I would not mind playing some Legend of Zelda or whatever games. However, I am not buying a console for that. I want to play it on my PC. If Nintendo does not want me to do that, they are not getting my money. This is a very small favour to ask of a multi-billion dollar company. It's not rocket science.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

there's also the core reality that emulators are legal in the USA and have been for decades regardless of if you make money on it

To get backups or your files from your physical games. But no one use emulators like that and they don’t even pretend that they do.
Which is why they get gone after.

The backup devices seem to often times be in a much safer position, especially since they tend to be for old consoles

 

[Moths]

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, vessels used for piracy are pirate ships.

 

[Bowiotronic]

there's a lot more to emulation than video games, it's one of the earlier aspects of getting online

The fuck are you going to emulate on a nintendo switch emulator if you are not emulating the games? errrr, the output video system? the menu? Do you want to recreate the monkey torture channel from the Nintendo Wiis on switch, since "Emulation is legal on the USA (like I told you, bullshit)" and people just won't """"bother"""" to prosecute monkey torture on shit 3rd world countries? can you please explain to me that lot more to emulation? cause I think you are completely wrong.

 

[Day of the Cope]

I wanna say that it's good that Yuzu avoided taking this to court where Nintendo could set legal precedent, but I worry that this will only embolden the Big N-Word.

The fuck are you going to emulate on a nintendo switch emulator if you are not emulating the games

You do know what a VM is, right? You know that the simple act of "emulation" is for more than playing 20 year old games, right?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

To get backups or your files from your physical games.

that's a rom dumper