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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Every emulation team? Did they sue others too?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Internet people: NINTENDO IS DESTROYING ALL EMULATORS raaaaaaaa

Reality: Nintendo sued exactly one emulator that was literally charging people to play pirated games

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Actually, charging people for emulation isn't illegal. The main problem, that I can figure out, is that they specifically marketed / advertised that upcoming Switch games (TotK) runs better on Yuzu than Switch. Main issue is that they did it before TotK was released.

Disclaimer: Not a legal expert, just what I could figure out from reading different stuff / articles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Exactly, which is why I said “charging people to play pirated games” (though I suppose it was really just one game, so no plural was needed.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This is incorrect they actually issued dmca take down notices to about 20 emulator forks, Gary's mod content, a couple home brew projects and an out of court settlement with Yuzu. This is just recently.

Nintendo has a history of being hostile to the emulation, homebrew and modding community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

So as @[email protected] said, they took down exactly one emulator. As you restated.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Yuzu + Citra = One Emulator?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I feel like you're arguing semantics about that one emulator. At least three of those forks had completely independent teams from yuzu.

But what I'm saying is an accurate is that all they were doing was taking down one emulator, they've been taking down a whole bunch of stuff.