Quietly following on the heels of the injunction ruling against Yuzu emulator that resulted in its removal and ceased development, popular Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra is following suit. Yuzu's parent company, Tropic Haze LLC, is also the owner of the development team for Citra 3DS emulator, and because of the recent ruling, Citra has also met the same fate. As of current writing, Citra has been removed from download on its official website, and the Citra GitHub repository has been taken down as well.

An official statement from Bunnei, a representative for both Citra and Yuzu, was posted on the Discord channel for Yuzu, saying that they never intended to allow piracy to impact Nintendo, and that playing games on "unauthorized hardware" is harmful, so development on both emulators will cease as of today. Citra's Discord server has also locked itself down, following the announcement.

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[MightySashiman]

I'm not going to hide that I'm incapable of shelling out 80 bucks left and right. But I recognize how much work it takes to create a modern caliber game. No matter your opinion of Nintendo's business practices, at least have some respect for the creative team! The level design, textures, music, and all of that, were made by someone.

I think people have an issue valuing something that is intangible (digital product or service, or probably any kind of service really). People will bitch about the simple fact of having to pay any amount for a game, even when said amount is less than the price of soda can or a lunch break amount of food... The cognitive dissonance is astonishing.

 

[MadMakuFuuma]

This is sadder than Yuzu being taken down, and yet another example of Nintendo bullying devs into shutting down a perfectly legal project. I hope other development teams stay strong and actually beat Nintendo in the next lawsuit rather than caving into fear of the big multi-trillion dollar corporation (I'm looking at you dolphin team)

Good luck devs!

ok, i agree with nintendo "bullying" part. but yuzu as not a "perfectly legal project". is not like any part is "100% to blame" in this case, really. yuzu team make money out of pelople play a game before launch (even worse... putting this behind a paywall). they atracted all the attencion to them, and thats why we saw the sh*t hitting the fans. nintendo tried to pull a suit against dolphin in the past, and lose. now compare what dolphin team do, with yuzu team. im not entering in details, but our fellow users already cited it too.
to be honest, and I never thought I would say this, but after this week and watching several videos about it, I came to the conclusion that it was better for the emulation community, for yuzu to end in an agreement, instead of going to trial. If Nintendo won, it would set a precedent for them to go after even emulators that are within the law

 

[Slinger]

Oh this is horrible! But reading what they wrote, this really sticks out to me:

But we see now that because our projects can circumvent [...] led to extensive piracy.

I bet Nintendo forced them to write that!I It's not like a lot of people are playing illegitimate 3ds games through Citra. At least not in any scale that would be "extensive piracy". Probably more people playing pirated games on the actual console. Same with the switch.

I actually use emulators like Citra and PPSSPP quite actively, but for my own software development. I don't think I've ever used them to play games.

Am I the odd one here, or does anyone else feel this is misrepresenting all the amazing possibilities emulators creates and painting them as black sheep?

 

[jeremy2020]

I bought games when I could find them via a digital storefront or physical copies and then often played them via emulator. I'll be skipping one of those two things now.

 

[Jayinem]

Yea, thankfully there's plenty for both emulators on archive.org.

How long until Nintendo or ESA goes after archive.org?

 

[elezzar]

ok, i agree with nintendo "bullying" part. but yuzu as not a "perfectly legal project". is not like any part is "100% to blame" in this case, really. yuzu team make money out of pelople play a game before launch (even worse... putting this behind a paywall). they atracted all the attencion to them, and thats why we saw the sh*t hitting the fans. nintendo tried to pull a suit against dolphin in the past, and lose. now compare what dolphin team do, with yuzu team. im not entering in details, but our fellow users already cited it too.
to be honest, and I never thought I would say this, but after this week and watching several videos about it, I came to the conclusion that it was better for the emulation community, for yuzu to end in an agreement, instead of going to trial. If Nintendo won, it would set a precedent for them to go after even emulators that are within the law

Why isn't it legal?
I knew people were playing games before release but that's because of leaks not the yuzu team selling the games?
I assumed yuzu was free and open source but I guess not?

 

[Knight of Time]

Normally, I don't like cursing, but IMO, you people who don't wait for a game to be officially released by Nintendo before playing it on an emulator have really done it this time; you assholes are the reason Nintendo always goes after emulator developers, and I'm getting sick of it! It's as if you want Nintendo to punish anyone for playing any of their games on an emulator, whether they wait for Nintendo to release a game, or not (personally, I think it is most taboo to emulate a game when it hasn't been released yet. That is why I always wait until a game comes out in stores first). Thanks to you bastards who don't wait for a game to be released, and leak an unreleased game on the internet, you're drawing Nintendo's attention and ruining things for people who like me, would much rather wait for a game to be available in stores first. I'm truly furious at you bastards who made Nintendo come down so hard on the emulation scene as of late, and if you think I'll just let it slide, you're mistaken if this kind of thing happens. For those of you who are like me and wait for a game to be released, I apologize if my post offended any of you; I just wanted to direct my anger at the people who deserve it the most, aka the people who are either gaslighting Nintendo on purpose when leaking a game before its release, or are oblivious to the consequences should Nintendo come down as hard as they have come here and other times. Those people are the ones who deserve to be punished IMO, in one way or another.

Anyway, pushing my rant of anger aside, I personally don't use Yuzu (I used either it or Ryujinx once just to help me evolve some Pokemon via trade in Pokemon Sword), but as an occasional Citra user (I mainly used it for playing Pokemon games), this truly makes me sad as well. If people keep leaking video games before they are released in stores, it could potentially damage the emulation scene to a point where it'll never recover, and cause many sites that focus on stuff like emulation and rom hacking to cease to exist. I just hope that never happens.

 

[WG481]

And get fucked by Nintendo too? I highly doubt anyone with a brain would do it. One way or another they will have to start over with a different name (not sure if "Yuzu" and "Citra" are trademarked) and codebase.

They wouldn’t get hit by Nintendo if it became like un-patreoned open source. And even if the big boy went after them someone with a brain would fight them in court.

 

[Asia81]

Do oyu know where I can still find apk backup of citra/yuzu ?
I bought an s24 ultra and I want try yuzu and citra on it.

edit : found it

 

[NinStar]

They wouldn’t get hit by Nintendo if it became like un-patreoned open source. And even if the big boy went after them someone with a brain would fight them in court.

I still don't understand why so many people believes in this myth that emulators can't offer paid features or be commercial.

 

[Lumstar]

I still don't understand why so many people believes in this myth that emulators can't offer paid features or be commercial.

More like what's the advantage? Open source has become effectively the standard for fanmade emulators. I don't know what features would be major enough to spend money on.

 

[DJPlace]

can't get mutilplayer to work to connect to rooms RIP Citra Online.

 

[WG481]

I still don't understand why so many people believes in this myth that emulators can't offer paid features or be commercial.

Funny myth indeed but that seems to be a recurring reason for why they get targeted

 

[tkhn23]

I still have a Citra copy

 

[Henx]

Can we please stop using Github, owned by Microsoft - an US corporation? It is getting ridiculous at this point.

List of alternatives;
https://codeberg.org/ - Germany
https://framagit.org/ - France (by Framasoft)
https://gitee.com/ - China. Good luck taking this one down. Shitendo can't do sh*t against China
https://gitflic.ru/ - Russia. Good luck with this one also

GitLab is not an alternative, since it is US based.

 

[SwordShielder]

Last build is glitchy.