Nintendo of America is suing the creators behind the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, claiming their tech facilitates piracy.

New documents filed Monday, February 26 reveal that videogame giant Nintendo is taking action against the creators of the popular emulator tool Yuzu.

The copyright infringement filing, from Nintendo of America, states that the Yuzu tool (from developer Tropic Haze LLC) illegally circumvents the software encryption and copyright protection systems of Nintendo Switch titles, and thus facilitates piracy and infringes copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Nintendo alleges that Tropic Haze’s free Yuzu emulator tool unlawfully allows pirated Switch games to be played on PCs and other devices, bypassing Nintendo’s protection measures.

The official Yuzu website suggests that the tool is to be used with software you yourself own: “You are legally required to dump your games from your Nintendo Switch” — but it’s common knowledge, that this is not how these tools are primarily used.

    • IllNessEnglish
      32·
      9 months ago

      Download Yuzu now, sideload later. Just in case.

        • IllNessEnglish
          8·
          9 months ago

          If Nintendo wins, the Github page and the website page will probably shutdown.

          Forking it now is a good idea.

          • ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            9 months ago

            It will be forked to a thousand other platforms, including private git repositories hosted locally. That cat is out of the bag and fortunately there’s not a damn thing they can do about it

      • AnarchoCummunist [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        91·
        9 months ago

        Go with Ryujinx. It’s a bit more accurate and works with a few more titles Yuzu may have issues with.

        A lot of Yuzu’s problem was flying too close to the sun with their Patreon as well. Gave Nintendo ammo for a lawsuit there.

      • yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        The problem is with the development ceasing. The source code will remain, but if there’z no dedicated team developing bugs will not be fixed and features will not be added.