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[–] [email protected] 87 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Obligatory fuck Nintendo, but don't make too much light out of this lawsuit. They're aren't attacking the legality of emulation itself (which has a ton of precedent defending it) but are instead trying to convince a judge that Yuzu is a DRM circumvention tool.

If they land a technologically-inept judge that believes decryption itself constitutes circumvention regardless of how it's used in the bigger picture, there's a decent chance the argument might have some teeth. Or, because there's no precedent for this, the lawsuit will drag on until Yuzu runs out of money and is forced to settle.

If it's within your financial means, please donate to Yuzu. If they lose this lawsuit, the precedent it sets will open up other emulators that work with encrypted ROMs (e.g. Dolphin and Ryujinx) to similar lawsuits.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I think it's about money, just like with Vanced. Google didn't care for the hacked YouTube client before the team behind the mod tried to make money off of it. Now Yuzu did the same and Nintendo went after them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tachiyomi didn't try to monetize tho, still got taken down

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Tachiyoumi is a different case, they absolutely could win but didn't have resources to go to court.

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

How did they try to monetize?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Patron that boomed with totk being leaked, but that's hardly their issue

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

what did they do?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I guess by this reasoning, Microsoft needs to be taken down for Windows circumventing DRM through running pirated material.

Such a nonsensical claim by Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I thought they won against Dolphin? Or am I just thinking when Steam removed it.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Steam didn’t want to get involved so they decided to remove Dolphin until Dolphin and Nintendo come to an agreement, which will never happen.

Dolphin is still going strong on its own.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Dolphin is still very real and updates frequently (in nightly builds). Check out their GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

Dolphin is in a better state than it's ever been, now has a resampler so you can get those crisp pixels like on original hardware. For anyone whose interest is in actually playing old Nintendo games over speculating on their IP, even if they own a cartridge, they're probably playing on Dolphin.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

I believe steam backed out so they wouldn't be sued by Nintendo

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

I just subscribed to the patreon in response

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

This uhhh.... Didn't age well :(

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

Fear not, yuzu may be gone but there are always alternatives. Plus like YouTube Vanced, the yuzu latest build is likely to continue to work for the foreseeable future.

For a thriving alternative, check out Ryujinx, and keep an eye out for Yuzu mainline getting picked up by another team with a slightly higher barrier to entry.

The neat thing about open source software is they are really hard to kill unless interest burns out, but considering how hard yuzu has been hitting headlines I think the Streisand effect will take it course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

True, I'm more worried about Citra since interest has kind of died down for that project. I'm kind of hoping some forks show up soon that get popular enough to be put onto a package manager since there aren't many alternatives with the same compatibility/performance (from what I can tell Panda3ds isn't very stable yet)