Just last week, on Tuesday, February 26th, 2024, news broke out about the Yuzu emulator team being sued by none other than Nintendo themselves, with Nintendo claiming that the emulator apparently allowed users to play certain games early (due to street dates being broken) and also allowing piracy of the current Nintendo Switch system.

Today, in a rather surprisingly quick manner, it seems like Tropic Haze LLC., the company behind the Yuzu team, has reached a settlement with Nintendo in regards to the lawsuit. According to a recent official document uploaded just a few minutes ago, Tropic Haze will pay up 2.4 million USD in favour to Nintendo, with both parties agreeing in the settlement and its amount.

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UPDATE: According to the proposed Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction document, Yuzu as a whole in its current form will cease to exist, meaning no further development and prohibition of any distribution of built or source code forms of it.

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Official document of the settlement
Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction

 

[James_]

https://graphtreon.com/creator/yuzuteam
It's not 100% but still a chunk of money

Oh, I should probably also point out:

Yuzu was the 141st highest on Patreon.

In comparison Ryujinx is at 4,637th.

 

[NinStar]

UPDATE: The Yuzu GitHub repository has reversed the latest changes back to 5 years ago. Releases are also gone.

The entire repository is gone for me.

 

[James_]

The entire repository is gone for me.

Literally the only thing left is their website source code, and even then that's a public archive now.

 

[chrisrlink]

All depends on what the agreement was. If it say they have to post something like this, they have to post something like this.

still in my consious i would disobay that stipulation (and go to jail) because what nintendo wants me to say is flat out false (Do I lie?) yes but i refuse to parrot some ideology of some shitty multibillion dollor company

 

[Kioku]

Welp, to the high seas i go, and i will never buy new again.

Very conflicted on the matter. On the one hand, my kids thoroughly enjoy their Switch and the games on it. On the other hand, I'm kind of over financially supporting a company that pours so much into legal battles and fighting the community(loose logic and arguments aside). Guess I'll practice and hone my tiny soldering skills.

 

[SylverReZ]

The entire repository is gone for me.

A backup of the repository: https://github.com/ninjadynamics/yuzu-mainline

 

[LightBeam]

They probably don't care about the patreons themselves, it's more about the money they're making

Yuzu was able to get that much because they had early access builds only available through there. Or you could just get them elsewhere, as any good and true pirate would .... Hence the argument that Yuzu made piracy easier since most would just shill out money to get the best emulation out of Yuzu.

 

[J-Will]

This is the worst thing I can ever imagine. I can't believe Nintendo would do this. Fuck you Nintendo. We still have Ryujinx on our side.

 

[James_]

Citra has posted the same announcement as Yuzu on Twitter:



(This was also posted in their Discord.)

All of their GitHub repositories have also been taken down now, aside from the website code which has also been archived.

 

[BaamAlex]

I can't believe the lead dev assumed people wouldn't pirate using emulators.
That's unreal.

It is unreal. People who obtain games illegally do most of the support work. But nobody admits to having obtained games illegally. That has always been the case and always will be. It's always worked pretty well up to now.

 

[DoctorBagPhD]

A big watery shite on Nintendo.

 

[RetroNerdGamer]

Now I'm thinking... was the Citra thing Nintendo's doing as well? Like, go after Yuzu then tell them on the side "We'll settle, but you also have to say this and take down Citra as well"?
I mean sure it might not be official but maybe Nintendo did it as a "well, we got away with this let's take a mile now"?

 

[Clydefrosch]

so the speed of this settlement kinda points towards the law not being on their side, doesn't it?

 

[plasma]

Now I'm thinking... was the Citra thing Nintendo's doing as well? Like, go after Yuzu then tell them on the side "We'll settle, but you also have to say this and take down Citra as well"?
I mean sure it might not be official but maybe Nintendo did it as a "well, we got away with this let's take a mile now"?

Yuzu team helped develop citra, so if one goes so does the other.

A dark day for emulation.

 

[Clydefrosch]

Yuzu team helped develop citra, so if one goes so does the other.

A dark day for emulation.

but citra is still there though.
ah ok, the website is still there but the installers wont work without the githubs

 

[BaamAlex]

Citra github is gone. Good that I downloaded the source code a few minutes earlier.

 

[Kioku]

Citra github is gone. Good that I downloaded the source code a few minutes earlier.

Dang, should have downloaded that too...

 

[AboodXD]

Citra is also dead, not just Yuzu.

 

[RetroNerdGamer]

Yuzu team helped develop citra, so if one goes so does the other.

A dark day for emulation.

Ugh. I love Nintendo's games but after Iwata dying and Reggie leaving... it's become a dark age for Nintendo.
I'm still gonna buy some of their games but I'm tired of their BS. They're just waving their cash around and wanting to rule through fear.

 

[James_]

I find it funny how I've basically become the update guy for this thread

I'm doing the team a favor here, huh?