Tropic Haze, the creator of the Switch Yuzu emulator, will pay Nintendo 2.4 million USD to settle their lawsuit. Yuzu’s creators will also withdraw the program and source code, as well as shut down the website and social media channels. [Thanks,
As mentioned above, Yuzu’s website will turn offand they will no longer distribute source code or programs. Citra will also be no more. For reference, Yuzu is a fan-made emulator for people to play Switch games. Nintendo sued the developers of Yuzu, claiming that the program broke the Switch’s encryption, as well as facilitated widespread piracy.
According to the lawsuit, copyright infringement was committed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom via a million times actually before the match go out. During this time, thousands of members joined Yuzu’s Patreon, paying creators for their services. Not only does Nintendo not make money from the game, but it could ruin other players’ experience when pirates post spoilers or content from the game before its official release.
The developers of Yuzu have come up with one message in the show’s official Discord server. It starts by saying that Yuzu’s team has always been against piracy and that the project started from passion. From the beginning, they didn’t realize that people could use Yuzu to circumvent Nintendo’s protections and play pirated games. The announcement also said that they were disappointed that some people chose to leak game content before its official release. They withdrew the program and source code, and shut down the Patreon and Discord servers because they discouraged piracy and believed it should no longer exist.
Yuzu is no more and the creators had to pay Nintendo $2.4 million.
