Nintendo Issues OVER 8500 DMCA Takedowns Over Switch Emulation and Yuzu

This is a follow up video to last months video: Nintendo Wednesday just issued over eight thousand DMCA takedown requests to GitHub over Nintendo Switch emulation...they just cant be stopped!

Nintendo has killed Yuzu and Citra emulators. Nintendo Switch emulation at least on the Yuzu emulator front is gone and 3DS emulation on Citra went with it! So let's take a look at the Nintendo lawsuit, find out why Yuzu lost and talk about what this means for game emulation moving forward! Because Suzu emulator is here...a new Nintendo Switch emulator that does basically everything DIFFERENT than Yuzu Emulator for Nintendo Switch did. Will it be enough to keep Nintendo's lawyers at bay?

Yes but the Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu threw in the towel anyway due to issues with the Yuzu source code basically leaving Ryujinx as the final standing Nintendo Switch emulation option!

Yesterday news broke that Nintendo is going after the Yuzu Emulator claiming it's illegal and in violation of Nintendo Copyright...which is not suprising because last February I said this was coming and soon! SO let's take a look at Yuzu Emulation, Nintendo Switch emulation and whether or not Nintendo has a legal case to stand on! Because Nintendo is trying to say Yuzu circumvents certain technologies and Nintendo wants Yuzu shut down by the courts! No Surprise...it is Nintendo after all! Nintendo news except NOT positive!

and before this : One year ago I did a video on Nintendo going after Valve and Steam in regards to the Dolphin Emulator and retro gaming emulation in general...and in that video I told you Nintendo was going to end up going hard against video game emulation! Some people didn't believe me...so let's look at the newly updated Nintendo Game Content Guidelines! oh and the competitive Smash Bros Tournament Guidelines are insane too...but that isn't what this is about!

Pivot time! Normally you would be watching a random fun Friday video this morning...but we have bigger fish to fry. Because we are going to be talking about video game emulation, its legal status and how Nintendo is currently threatening basically everyone who ever made a video on a Nintendo game ever with their new Nintendo Game Content Guidelines!

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About eight months ago I did a part 1 video on whether video game emulation / emulation setup guides were legal and I mentioned I thought Nintendo would challenge this moving forward...and they did by removing the Dolphin emulator from Steam. Thankfully I have a long background in copyright and intellectual property law, have taught it to college students and have used this knowledge in many aspects of my working life as a filmmaker and professional athlete manager.

And on October 25th Nintendo went even WEIRDER with their new content guidelines rules! So today we will be talking about the concept of why video game emulation is legal in the first place and why Nintendo's new rules are just seriously insane!

But this will be very interesting to follow as if this goes to a court case it COULD be decided in Nintendo's favor and what emulation of retro gaming hardware as we currently know it could be in serious legal jeopardy!

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[Shadowtrance]

I have 2 words for nintendo... and they begin with F and O....

[PM-xcoo]

We have to be well into "more harm than good" territory with this crusade against Yuzu.

[claimhsolais]

There's only one solution. Band together as community(ies) and get them to the court(s) instead.
People have successfully passed laws such as right to repair. We can and we should do something similar for legal emulation and emulators as well.

[exarkun]

The scary Mario castle music is truly perfect for talking about Nintendo’s lawyers! 😱

[xminorthreatx]

Nintendo (noun): A corporation of lawyers that sometimes somehow produces a good video game.

[nocturnalag]

Feel like it’s time for Nintendo to go through another wii u / n64 / GameCube generation where gamers don’t give two shits about their products so Nintendo worry more about their products then the emulation community.

[apr]

It was a brilliant move by Nintendo. Now they legally own a very good emulator that they can use for backward compatibility. This can be used on the new “Switch 2”. They got paid to get this emulator too!

[drdroop]

When the first round happened my only thought was: Nintendo is only doing this because the Switch 2's biggest feature (aside from Switch 2 games) is Switch 1 games at higher resolutions and/or frame rates. They are getting ahead of "why would I buy this when I can do this on my PC for free?"

[judsonrodriguez]

I like the happy cheerful Mario world music playing in background contrasting with Nintendo rampaging Scorched earth policy😝

[giakhanh]

They really put lots of efforts in suing and not actually developing quality games. Super Mario Wonder and Princess Peach Showtime had been nothing but a bunch of mediocre lately.

[DehnusNorder]

It was so funny when Nintendo Fanboys raged at people saying "Oh this'll become whackamole". I mean anybody that knew how Open Source works knew this was to be expected.

And this is why I keep saying, the wrong "smaller hardware company" survived the hardware race. SEGA also has their... moments, but never at this level. When Nintendo isn't doing well (Wii U, Gamecube) they are acting like the "tiny company from your childhood, please pity us we are fuuuun!". But the moment they get to be the biggest (NES, SNES, Wii, Switch) they turn into right bastards LOL :P ). But due to the earlier "fuuun! Nostalgia!" stuff, I do like them. The WIi U was fantastic if you liked Older Nintendo stuff same for the Gamecube, the Wind Waker still is one of my favorite Zelda Games :P .

Sorry rambling like a madman :P

But yeah, taking from open source (The whole mapper identification system made by the community, heck they took the dumped Super Mario Rom for their virtual console LOL), but not giving back? Typical Nintendo.

[srvuk]

I dare say that the torrents will keep the code alive in some form. The Switch 2 must be coming soon as this activity is rather frantic.

[stevenshockley]

Makes me back up and emulate that much harder.

[KonaKonaKaabisteru]

A NEW RECORD!!!!


Seriously though, Nintendo's really going off taking on this on growing hydra, eh...

[DoinThatRag]

Pointless. That is 8500 systems with a copy of the repo. Rename repo and re-upload. And now none of them are linked. I already did my part.

[JonahJayTaylor]

They are saying you don’t own the product but they are giving you a license to use their source code which they can revoke you from if they want.

[Sairiui]

Sounds like this is nintendo stating the poor performance is the intended way to play these 60$ games..

No, nintendo. You're wrong. That's why you will never stop emulation, piracy included or not. Link up with your community or become irrelevant.

[garyoneil]

The first thought I had with the settlement was Nintendo now owns the Yuzu source code. After the settlement it likely isn't licensed as open source any more even though the code is out there.

[UltraRonin]

Nintendo is the most consumer unfriendly entity in the video game hardware business today. By a lot.

They have been on this anti-emulation crusade for what seems like decades, now. They DMCA fan games that do them absolutely no harm financially or otherwise. Their online service sucks. Their software is overpriced and almost never on sale. The Switch still costs $299, and the tech is absolutely archaic in 2024.

Like most gamers of a certain age, I grew up on Nintendo. Their games are magical, and they are responsible for nearly every innovation in the gaming industry that has gone on to become a new standard. There is so much to love about Nintendo, but I resent the hell out of their business practices. And the more they continue to do things like this, the harder it becomes for me to separate their corporate identity from the lovable characters and the nostalgia.

[blast_processing]

I propose the following:

1. Following on the heels of the recently released N64 recompiler tool, create recompilers for other Nintendo consoles / ROMs.

2. Apply some reasonable optimizations and enhancements to recompiled Nintendo games.

3. Derive WYSIWYG game makers from recompiled Nintendo game so that everyone, everywhere can easily make their own stand-alone Nintendo games to be distributed far and wide.