Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu

[Vergil]

Yuzu got taken down because they were blatantly shilling their emulator commercially based on the ability to run Tears of the Kingdom using stolen Switch keys which they were providing on their Discord. "Nuh-Uh, our community rules say no piracy allowed." doesn't fly when you get caught red-handed.

Be honest, have you ever used one of your amiibos for illicit purposes?

[Finarfin]

Maybe Nintendo should take the hint that people don't want to play [franchise] on a tablet from 9 years ago at 20 FPS.

I have a switch and I can't play breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom on sub 30fps. I only use it for Ring Fit adventures (which is 60fps )
I'm too stupid for the emulator since I don't know where to find roms/isos for the switch since I never really got into piracy (which is a shame)

[Breathe]

From the 5 mins of research I did apparently the most popular switch emulator now is ryujinx.

Ryujinx is meh, imo.

Last time I used it was to play Metroid Dread, and it worked very smoothly for that. What are the issues you have with it?

[Vergil]

Maybe Nintendo should take the hint that people don't want to play [franchise] on a tablet from 9 years ago at 20 FPS.

I have a switch and I can't play breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom on sub 30fps. I only use it for Ring Fit adventures (which is 60fps )
I'm too stupid for the emulator since I don't know where to find roms/isos for the switch since I never really got into piracy (which is a shame)

Fit girl has repacks of them both set up with 2 different emulators to choose from a simple executable.

[Finarfin]

Maybe Nintendo should take the hint that people don't want to play [franchise] on a tablet from 9 years ago at 20 FPS.

I have a switch and I can't play breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom on sub 30fps. I only use it for Ring Fit adventures (which is 60fps )
I'm too stupid for the emulator since I don't know where to find roms/isos for the switch since I never really got into piracy (which is a shame)

Fit girl has repacks of them both set up with 2 different emulators to choose from a simple executable.

[WaterMage]

Yuzu is alive and well in Debian packages. I installed now. Just don't have interest in Switch games.

[anonusername]

Yuzu got taken down because they were blatantly shilling their emulator commercially based on the ability to run Tears of the Kingdom using stolen Switch keys which they were providing on their Discord. "Nuh-Uh, our community rules say no piracy allowed." doesn't fly when you get caught red-handed.

Be honest, have you ever used one of your amiibos for illicit purposes?

Don't own any. Don't see what using them to pirate games (how would that even work?) has to do with the bad opsec shown by the Yuzu team. They *knew* Nintendo sues anytime they have a winning case. If you know that and you don't filter the messages posted on your official platforms accordingly, then you cannot be surprised when you get sued.

[Segata]

Nintendo is up to their dark tricks again. This time they just DMCA'd every single Switch emulator on Github

https://www.androidauthority.com/ninten ... a-3640722/

TL;DR

A representative for Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to every Switch emulator on GitHub.
Switch emulator repositories are still up, but likely not for long.
Active projects are still hosted outside GitHub, but they may be harder to find in the future.

[J1M]

Nintendo is up to their dark tricks again. This time they just DMCA'd every single Switch emulator on Github

https://www.androidauthority.com/ninten ... a-3640722/

TL;DR

A representative for Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to every Switch emulator on GitHub.
Switch emulator repositories are still up, but likely not for long.
Active projects are still hosted outside GitHub, but they may be harder to find in the future.

If they aren't violating the law, they can get these restored by following the DMCA process. If Nintendo persists then they have a lawsuit and Nintendo pays their legal fees. Which could easily be crowd-funded given the topic.

[anonusername]

Nintendo is up to their dark tricks again. This time they just DMCA'd every single Switch emulator on Github

https://www.androidauthority.com/ninten ... a-3640722/

TL;DR

A representative for Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to every Switch emulator on GitHub.
Switch emulator repositories are still up, but likely not for long.
Active projects are still hosted outside GitHub, but they may be harder to find in the future.

If they aren't violating the law, they can get these restored by following the DMCA process. If Nintendo persists then they have a lawsuit and Nintendo pays their legal fees. Which could easily be crowd-funded given the topic.

Potentially, but the incentive is for Microsoft is to just ban anything with a compliant to insulate themselves from legal risk. That means making the devs fight the DMCA complaint in court rather than having a functional internal process. Unless there is sufficient PR backlash, it's better to punt the final decision and avoid any possible liability. Meanwhile, civil court is expensive and time-consuming so most hobbyist devs won't bother. Any devs making substantial revenue from the emulator risk going the same way as Yuzu.

Theoretically it's possible to profit from an emulator without violating copyright law, but in reality you can only attract sufficient customers by facilitating piracy. Even if all switch hardware could be softmodded, dumping their own games and keys is way more work than most people are willing to put in to get a better framerate or resolution. If that was actually their target market then the Yuzu team would be spending more time reverse engineering games and offering subscribers mods to enhance graphics and framerates. Instead their marketing focused on the ease of piracy and running pirated games on the widest range of hardware possible.

[Vergil]

Nintendo this is my final warning, I have over 9000 bwc magacocks pointed directly at Japan and more specifically the wives of every nintendo executive. This stops NOW

[J1M]

Nintendo is up to their dark tricks again. This time they just DMCA'd every single Switch emulator on Github

https://www.androidauthority.com/ninten ... a-3640722/

TL;DR

A representative for Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to every Switch emulator on GitHub.
Switch emulator repositories are still up, but likely not for long.
Active projects are still hosted outside GitHub, but they may be harder to find in the future.

If they aren't violating the law, they can get these restored by following the DMCA process. If Nintendo persists then they have a lawsuit and Nintendo pays their legal fees. Which could easily be crowd-funded given the topic.

Potentially, but the incentive is for Microsoft is to just ban anything with a compliant to insulate themselves from legal risk. That means making the devs fight the DMCA complaint in court rather than having a functional internal process. Unless there is sufficient PR backlash, it's better to punt the final decision and avoid any possible liability. Meanwhile, civil court is expensive and time-consuming so most hobbyist devs won't bother. Any devs making substantial revenue from the emulator risk going the same way as Yuzu.

Theoretically it's possible to profit from an emulator without violating copyright law, but in reality you can only attract sufficient customers by facilitating piracy. Even if all switch hardware could be softmodded, dumping their own games and keys is way more work than most people are willing to put in to get a better framerate or resolution. If that was actually their target market then the Yuzu team would be spending more time reverse engineering games and offering subscribers mods to enhance graphics and framerates. Instead their marketing focused on the ease of piracy and running pirated games on the widest range of hardware possible.

Companies don't get to decide what the DMCA means. There is a clear process.

1. Rights holder reports, take it down.
2. Creator contests, put it back up.
3. Rights holder insists, lawsuit happens.
4. Loser pays everyone's legal fees.

If you know you are right, get a loan or beg on kickstarter.

[GhostCow]

Nintendo already lost this kind of lawsuit with the Nintendo 64 emulator in the early 2000s. They should just stop. Everyone hates them at this point between all the woke **** in the US versions of their games, the new female head of NOA, the suing of Palworld, and then this.

[maidenhaver]

Yes, I hope nintendo dies.

[Fox1]

Nintendo already lost this kind of lawsuit with the Nintendo 64 emulator in the early 2000s. They should just stop. Everyone hates them at this point between all the woke **** in the US versions of their games, the new female head of NOA, the suing of Palworld, and then this.

Wait so the Japanese versions of Pokemon etc don't have girlbosses or diversity?

[rusty_shackleford]

jap ip law worship is one of the worst parts of their culture

[Val the Moofia Boss]

jap ip law worship is one of the worst parts of their culture

Worse is their patenting of game mechanics. Japanese gacha games have been unable to allow you to click one button and automatically upgrade a character as much as you have mats for because that system was patented and Japanse companies don't want to risk a lawsuit. So for Granblue Fantasy, Fate/Grand Order, etc, you have to click and upgrade a single character multiple times, which becomes very tedious the more tiers of upgrades there are.