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Yuzu emulator shutting down, paying Nintendo 2.4 million in lawsuit settlement (gbatemp.net)
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[–] samus12345 137 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Oh, and it will surrender the yuzu-emu.org domain name to Nintendo, agree to delete not only its copies of Yuzu but also “all circumvention tools used for developing or using Yuzu—such as TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer,” and hand over any “physical circumvention devices” and “modified Nintendo hardware” to Nintendo. It also agrees to not delete any other “evidence” that infringes Nintendo’s IP rights.

Damn, I modded my Switch JUST in time! Thanks for giving me the motivation, Nintendo!

[–] pivot_root 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The team behind Yuzu is different from ReSwitched and Atmosphere, so you were fine either way.

This just means Yuzu agrees to delete their copies of the tools they used and send Nintendo their hacked Switch consoles (probably to be destroyed).

[–] samus12345 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Although the fact that these programs were named means that Nintendo's Eye of Sauron is on them - the extra attention makes me nervous. I definitely would have modded it this weekend if I hadn't already decided to last weekend.

[–] cley_faye 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is no world where these tools exists and Nintendo does not know them. It's not some deep darknet secret lore hidden behind seven-VPN. Anything that happens online about emulation, all the company knows it exists and how it works. The threat never goes away.

[–] samus12345 8 points 8 months ago

I know, but there's a difference between "knows they exist" and "is naming them in legal documentation".

[–] pivot_root 8 points 8 months ago

Good point.

Of these, I would only really be concerned about nxDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and Lockpick_RCM as possible to come after using the same strategy, though. And even then, Lockpick_RCM was already taken down and mass redistributed.

It's not illegal to modify the hardware you own, and the rest of those aren't directly interacting with Nintendo's DRM-protected software. The only one that they could arguably go after is Atmosphère, but SciresM has held a very strong public pro-homebrew and anti-piracy stance which makes it extremely hard for Nintendo to argue that it's primary purpose is DRM circumvention.

I plan on making offline archives of Hekate and Atmosphère at some point, in either case.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait Yuzu were behind all the other tools?? Surely that was other people?

[–] samus12345 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Pretty sure they're all by other people. Maybe they were hosting copies on their own server or something? Possibly they were just using them for Yuzu development.

[–] sweaterpuppys 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I did not.... 😭

[–] samus12345 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I imagine you'll still be able to do so for a while, if not forever. But probably worth doing it sooner rather than later if you're interested, just in case! Modding it has nothing to do with Yuzu, so I'm not sure why these other programs are involved.