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Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I litterly saw this and proceeded to download yuza

I don't even want to play any games on it right now I just did it as a middle finger to Nintendo

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I did not know this, I will now go see if there is anything worth playing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Good advertising! I just hope the dev gets out of this without consequences and the project lives on.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The comments section here is pretty much an echo chamber of people defending Yuzu. I'm a game dev and I think this case is more ambiguous. Emulators like Yuzu have the potential to make Switch piracy go mainstream. You don't need to hack anything, you just follow a tutorial and google "yuzu keys", suddenly you can play all Switch games for free. And people don't need to be tech-savvy to do that. Nintendo would be stupid if they would just ignore this. It doesn't help that the Tegra X1 is old, almost identical with other Nvidia chipsets and therefore easy to emulate on a PC.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I'm a game dev and I think ur talking out your ass we get paid for working hours not for how much a game doesnt get pirated after launch

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m a game dev and I think this case is more ambiguous

if you want job security, unionize your workplace

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Every single emulator has been like this for more than 20 years. Has it gone mainstream yet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's a good point actually. I would argue that most emulators didn't get good enough during the lifetime of the console, and even Yuzu isn't there yet. But you can see the potential, and that's threatening to Nintendo's business model.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Time to sell my switch, i only have it because of yuzu.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Considering that the keys are not unique per console, it's kind of weird keeping the Switch around just for Yuzu. I mean you can get key dumps online and those work the same since they're all identical.

Only real reason to do it is because Yuzu devs said so, and that's not a great reason because they don't have any authority to say so, nor any way of knowing if people are actually doing that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Yuzu struggled running zelda on my pc, zo i bought a switch to play zelda again.

I'd think a ryzen 7, 64gb ram and 3070 shouldn't have a problem with a switch game but i might be wrong because i don't know the specs of the switch.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Just found out about yuzu today, wasn't aware you could get the key dumps online. How can I find sources for those?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Yeah? Such a dick about it, Nintendo. Your platform is not special and people will run software however they please.

Emulation is legal. Emulation will remain legal. If you can't deal with it except through courtroom bullying, may devs should look into SLAPP defenses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Devs have to give up, companies have limitless funding for these things while people don’t

They have anti-piracy measures in the emulator though and it’s not like it’s any more difficult to play pirated games on the Switch. So this is sad to see

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago

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