Yuzu is dead

Yuzu - the popular Nintendo Switch Emulator (and recently Citra - a 3ds emulator developed by the same team as Yuzu) is dead. Nintendo has settled with Yuzu for 2.4 million dollars and for the immediate removal of all source code, downloads, github repos, discord and Patreon. Here are my thoughts.

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[HippeusOmega]

Citra getting caught in the crossfire really hurts.

[enzospartan]

If anything, this has ignited a massive spark in the Switch emulation scene. Thousands of people cloned and archived the Yuzu and Citra repos yesterday and many of the support communities saw massive influxes of new users. There's already a 'new' Yuzu repo being setup. Nintendo got $2.4M and temporarily stopped progress of the foremost Switch emulator - nothing more.

[RyuuVanDraco]

You find Citra and Yuzu in the Internet archive.
Enjoy.

[jadenpokemon]

Once an open source project exists on the web, it will never not exist. Long live emulation!

[mohwe]

what's truly fucked up is that Citra is now dead
purely as collateral damage

[marcusbruns]

Since Yuzu didn't take it to court, they took one for the team. Them settling out of court is the best thing that could have happened for the emulation scene.

[NoahGooder]

part of me is completely pissed because i had citra on my resume since i worked on it in the past.

[zuko]

It's citra that hurts the most. The 3ds has a fantastic library.

[Zwank]

Already 6 forks, open source community is like a hydra when attacked.

[Prizm]

Don't forget that Nintendo repackaged NES roms ripped with iNES emulator tools, and put those ROMs in their Wii Virtual Console. The game files still had the iNES header inside 🙄

[tbk]

2:35 I imagine a video of a yuzu dev nervously reading that message from a piece of rustling paper, occaisonally glancing to the side as though a mustached plumper is standing just off camera, pointing a gun at him.

[jim_o]

Looking forward to the day someone will identify Yuzu code running some future Nintendo-Switch-Mini or similar.

[Oni_XT]

The beautiful thing about the internet is, if something has been uploaded and shared - there's a download out there for it.

[pianoleeuwarden]

Downloaded the Yuzu Source before takedown.
And i'm sure many developers did the same.
This will not be the day they captured Jack sparrow.

[xelasix]

Since the eShop closure, Shin Megami Tensei IV is a lost media in Europe, now with Citra's death, it's now difficult to play the game, you need a modded 3DS and access to the cia files + you lost access to all the mods to improve the QOL

[theshadowdirector]

If I'm honest, I was always nervous about how 'loud' YUZU was getting, not just because of their Patreon but also the spotlight it was getting from places like Linus Tech Tips or that pulled SteamDeck ad. I just felt that was all flying too close to the sun. It's better that projects like this try and avoid the mainstream spotlight.

[desmond]

Don't forget about 2 years ago Yuzu tried to put the multiplayer feature behind a paywall as well but cancelled it entirely in the last minute for fear that Nintendo might sue them. It's for real this time.

[TheEDFLegacy]

As soon as you mentioned that they had a Patreon, I knew that is how they lost against Nintendo. As soon as you start monetizing something that directly or indirectly was developed by Nintendo, that's when Nintendo's lawyers get _really_ vicious. Sure, they'll probably go after anything regardless, but profiting from it, even in the form of donations, is a big no-no.

[Baggy]

regarding your point at 2:25, the early access actually was never behind a paywall, what was behind a paywall was the ability to update your current build to the Early Access version and to have it be automatically updated. But the source for the Early Access version was always publicly available and available for anyone to compile themselves!

[charliekempf]

This sets a really bad precedent. I hope other hardware manufacturers don't see blood in the water