Posted: 3/7/2024 4:48 AM
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ixfd64
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https://theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090357/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-settlement Very sad news. :-(
Posted: 3/7/2024 2:09 PM
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KennyMan666
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While it's a bit of a shame that it and Citra are (officially) dead, the Yuzu devs were extremely uncautious and obvious about what they were doing. They were openly sharing roms on their Discord, had the actual Switch SDK on their Google Drive, and when Tears of the Kingdom leaked two weeks early, the Yuzu build that was able to play it was only available to Patreon subscribers—and they saw a huge increase in subscribers in that period of time. So they were not only 100% encouraging piracy, they actively made money off of it. There was no way they were winning the case, and settling for what probably was all the money they had and shutting down was by a pretty wide margin the least painful possible result for them.
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Posted: 3/7/2024 3:16 PM
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Dimon12321
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KennyMan666 wrote:
They were openly sharing roms on their Discord,
Maybe it relates to Switch ROMs only. When I posted my TAS video in their Citra discord channel, thanking them for their efforts, they deleted it and wrote to me that this is an act of piracy. I didn't expect them to read the description of that video and discover a link on the ROM file I was using.
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Posted: 3/7/2024 8:44 PM
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ixfd64
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KennyMan666 wrote:
They were openly sharing roms on their Discord, had the actual Switch SDK on their Google Drive, and when Tears of the Kingdom leaked two weeks early, the Yuzu build that was able to play it was only available to Patreon subscribers—and they saw a huge increase in subscribers in that period of time.
Yeah... that is a huge no-no.