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Yuzu emulator shutting down, paying Nintendo 2.4 million in lawsuit settlement

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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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:arrow: Official document of the settlement
:arrow: Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction
 
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James_ said:
Citra has posted the same announcement as Yuzu on Twitter:



All of their GitHub repositories have also been taken down now, aside from the website code which has also been archived.
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That tweet feels so weird to read, It almost like Nintendo lawyers themselves wrote it for them.
 
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Kioku said:
If they lost, there may have been a precedent set that would only cause more issues for Emulation down the line. More fine lines to walk, red tape, etc.
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i mean, its not like its any different now, right?
anyone just has to sue emulator for the same reasons.
 
chrisrlink said:
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
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Sometimes two things are true. Nintendo is a shitty company, that's true. What's also true is that this place, twitter, GameFAQs, Reddit, and every other place where video games are discussed were pissed when rom websites started getting shut down by Nintendo because we're all pirating. Very, very few people are actually backing up their own carts and discs and if I had to make a guess I would say at least half of the people who claim they do are lying about it. The statement also doesn't say "Emulation = Piracy", it says people were using their emulator for piracy and that is 1000% not a lie. Literally nobody playing TOTK before launch was playing their own legally dumped copy of the damn game and you know it. Literally nobody playing Pokemon before launch was playing their own legally dumped copy of the damn game and you know it. Literally nobody playing Mario Wonder before launch was playing their own legally dumped copy of the damn game and you know it. Literally nobody playing Mario RPG before launch was playing their own legally dumped copy of the damn game and you know it.

Like, I have 3tb worth of pirated games. I'm not judging a damn person for pirating, but I am judging people who are too big of a p**** to admit they're pirating and trying to convince themselves that they're not. I'm pissed at Nintendo because this means my fun of playing games before release is gone, not because I've gaslit myself into thinking I was doing nothing illegal.
 
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n00bsaib0t said:
Sometimes two things are true. Nintendo is a shitty company, that's true. What's also true is that this place, twitter, GameFAQs, Reddit, and every other place where video games are discussed were pissed when rom websites started getting shut down by Nintendo because we're all pirating. Very, very few people are actually backing up their own carts and discs and if I had to make a guess I would say at least half of the people who claim they do are lying about it. The statement also doesn't say "Emulation = Piracy", it says people were using their emulator for piracy and that is 1000% not a lie. Literally nobody playing TOTK before launch was playing their own legally dumped copy of the damn game and you know it. Literally nobody playing Pokemon before launch was playing their own legally dumped copy of the damn game and you know it. Literally nobody playing Mario Wonder before launch was playing their own legally dumped copy of the damn game and you know it. Literally nobody playing Mario RPG before launch was playing their own legally dumped copy of the damn game and you know it.

Like, I have 3tb worth of pirated games. I'm not judging a damn person for pirating, but I am judging people who are too big of a p**** to admit they're pirating and trying to convince themselves that they're not. I'm pissed at Nintendo because this means my fun of playing games before release is gone, not because I've gaslit myself into thinking I was doing nothing illegal.
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Not gonna say much on this but yes, no one playing a game before release was legally playing it for sure. I knew this stuff starting with Metroid Dread bein' up on the internet a week or so before release was gonna bite us all in the butt, and lookie lookie...
Edit: Also am I the only one who remembers some person Nintendo was gonna go apeshit on because they showed a few pictures from the TOTK artbook in the Collectors Edition?
The frak was that about??????
 
choconado said:
well this sucks. Everyone is pointing out the patreon as a smoking gun but I think just as much it was bunnei running their mouth about 0-day release compatibility and using it for pirating purposes and the like. This isn't 1998, you can't just say things on the internet and expect no paper trail to follow you when you're speaking from an official position.

Bright side is that this was a settlement not a full trial verdict, so there's precedent set for ninty to go after everybody else on even flimsier grounds. Also as many have said, yuzu is open source, it's only a matter of time before someone forks the code and we see like "cantaloupe" emu or something from people not from the original yuzu team.

I'm bummed, and it's real crappy for the devs, but things could have been a lot worse for us on the user end.
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I also think patreon has little to nothing to do with this, more like they want to set an example of one person to put fear into the other. Now see the other emulator shut down by default without resistance and before this company gets to them. This is exactly what they want.
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the reason the Yuzu devs got fucked was because they were distributing switch games on Discord, not because of the emulator itself, which would be 100% legal and there's precedent for that. There's a reason these guys settled - they knew they were fucked.
 
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