"NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator.

Notes 1 million copies of Tears of the Kingdom downloaded prior to game's release; says Yuzu's Patreon support doubled during that time. Basically arguing that that is proof that Yuzu's business model helps piracy flourish."

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I've been holding off on jailbreaking my launch Switch until the next one is out, but I think the time has come.

EDIT: Aaand done. Biggest surprise so far is that there's a homebrew Pizza Tower port for it! This game really belongs on consoles.

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[–] polysics@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Edit: I am dumb, of course the source code is out there. I have visited this repository a thousand times but my monkey brain can't remember what I ate for breakfast.

https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu

Everyone download the hell out of it and never let this die.

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If it isn't already open source, Yuzu team needs to get that shiz open source post-haste. Let's get that code absolutely everywhere.

When that popular manga app Tachiyomi got legal bonked, the bajillion forks of it kept some semblance of the original going.

I know there's money to be made and something like an emulator is considerably more complex than a book reading app/scraper, but it would at least give the project a chance of not dying forever.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago

there are already 3rd party repositories that come from yuzu. e.g Yuzu Pineapple is a repository that autocompiles the source code that yuzu puts out so that you dont have to sub to get early access builds prebuilt.

[–] lawrence@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

maybe if their games went on sale more..

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago

Maybe if emulating the game wasn't often better than playing it on the only hardware the game is made for...

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 7 months ago

Looks like they're about to find out.

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