Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
www.theverge.com
Just about a week after getting sued.

This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code.

The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. In addition, the repo for the Citra 3DS emulator was also taken down.

As of at least 23:30 UTC, Yuzu’s website and Citra’s website have been replaced with a statement about their discontinuation.

Other sources found by @Daughter3546@lemmy.world:

There is also an active Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b6gtb5/

  • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    tbf there was never a paywall. ea = latest yuzu master branch with some work-in-progress-but-almost-ready-for-general-use prs merged in.
    anyone could have taken the repo, merged prs from the list and built it, with no need to pay for anything. It’s free software after all

    • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      There was actually someone who did that, the repo was called pineapple-src and it was fairly popular

    • Wilzax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Yeah you’re right, it was brought to my attention that the lawsuit was about decrypting games, especially Tears of the Kingdom, before they were released. The monetization was just to provide earlier access to precompiled binaries