This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code.

The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. In addition, the repo for the Citra 3DS emulator was also taken down.

As of at least 23:30 UTC, Yuzu’s website and Citra’s website have been replaced with a statement about their discontinuation.


Other sources found by @Daughter3546@lemmy.world:


There is also an active Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b6gtb5/

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    9 months ago

    The fuck? Why? Emulators are entirely legal and they could’ve won

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      Nintendo went after them for using (not distributing) prod.keys to decrypt game titles and system firmware under 17 U.S.C. 1201 (2), which sidesteps having to challenge the legality of emulation directly. I guess Yuzu doesn’t have the funds to fight them in court on that.

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      9 months ago

      Because Nintendo is a vexatious litigant that weaponizes the legal system in an attempt to bankrupt their opponents.

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      They agreed to delete, “all circumvention tools used for developing or using Yuzu—such as TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer,” and hand over any “physical circumvention devices” and “modified Nintendo hardware.

      They know what their emulator was primarily used for. Key word here. Primarily.

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      They were selling hacking tools that used Nintendo’s IP to do so. That isn’t legal.

      Having a legal use case doesn’t mean they weren’t breaking the law by profiting off of selling the tools.