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Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu primarily designed to circumvent ".
www.theverge.com Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
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.
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Other sources found by @[email protected]:
- https://gbatemp.net/threads/yuzu-emulator-shutting-down-paying-nintendo-2-4-million-in-lawsuit-settlement.650039/
- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendos-yuzu-lawsuit-puts-emulation-in-the-spotlight-opinion
- https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-says-tears-of-the-kingdom-was-pirated-1-million-times-pre-release-in-lawsuit-against-emulator-creator
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There is also an active Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b6gtb5/