Just last week, on Tuesday, February 26th, 2024, news broke out about the Yuzu emulator team being sued by none other than Nintendo themselves, with Nintendo claiming that the emulator apparently allowed users to play certain games early (due to street dates being broken) and also allowing piracy of the current Nintendo Switch system.

Today, in a rather surprisingly quick manner, it seems like Tropic Haze LLC., the company behind the Yuzu team, has reached a settlement with Nintendo in regards to the lawsuit. According to a recent official document uploaded just a few minutes ago, Tropic Haze will pay up 2.4 million USD in favour to Nintendo, with both parties agreeing in the settlement and its amount.

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UPDATE: According to the proposed Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction document, Yuzu as a whole in its current form will cease to exist, meaning no further development and prohibition of any distribution of built or source code forms of it.

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Official document of the settlement
Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction

 

[Ondrashek06]

Read my previous post about stipulations.

So if Nintendo told Yuzu to say "Please go buy Nintendo's products right now. They're a good company that does nothing wrong", they would have to say it?

 

[James_]

Can you share screenshots?

I already posted the notice like... 2 pages back lol.
Along with the messages from one of the Citra moderators.

 

[ut2k4master]

Thankfully Yuzu is an Open Source project meaning that even if the original contributers are barred from developing it, anyone and everyone can make their own versions of it.

and risk getting sued to

 

[linuxares]

So if Nintendo told Yuzu to say "Please go buy Nintendo's products right now. They're a good company that does nothing wrong", they would have to say it?

Yes, if both parties come to that agreement.

 

[xdarkmario]

If it weren't for them accepting patreon donations I feel like they would have had a better stronger defense but the second money is involved with someone else's property you done fucked up. The evil dictators Nintendo win again and although me as just one person is absolute jack shit to a big company like that you definitely won't catch me buying their consoles or games anymore.

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

might just be a simple network error but that's wonderful

 

[Dontuuch17]

Mannnn bro, maybe the skyline devs weren't to far off the mark when they ceased development.

 

[Ettino]

2.4 mills isn't too bad considering how much they made of Yuzu's patreon. They're still able to walk away millionaire. This could end so much worse for them.

 

[osaka35]

Welp, to the high seas i go, and i will never buy new again.

 

[ut2k4master]

2.4 mills isn't too bad considering how much they made of Yuzu's patreon. They're still able to walk away millionaire. This could end so much worse for them.

havent done the math myself but i read they made less than a million with their patreon, so theyd actually lose a lot

 

[choconado]

well this sucks. Everyone is pointing out the patreon as a smoking gun but I think just as much it was bunnei running their mouth about 0-day release compatibility and using it for pirating purposes and the like. This isn't 1998, you can't just say things on the internet and expect no paper trail to follow you when you're speaking from an official position.

Bright side is that this was a settlement not a full trial verdict, so there's precedent set for ninty to go after everybody else on even flimsier grounds. Also as many have said, yuzu is open source, it's only a matter of time before someone forks the code and we see like "cantaloupe" emu or something from people not from the original yuzu team.

I'm bummed, and it's real crappy for the devs, but things could have been a lot worse for us on the user end.

 

[Bladexdsl]

that's it than yuzu chickening out means the end of switch emulation. ryu will be next

 

[SylverReZ]

UPDATE: The Yuzu GitHub repository has reversed the latest changes back to 5 years ago. Releases are also gone.

 

[Bladexdsl]

EDIT: https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam <-- most likely WHY they wanted Yuzu down.

ryu has a patron too

 

[LightBeam]

I already posted the notice like... 2 pages back lol.
Along with the messages from one of the Citra moderators.

And they say they have an issue with people leaking games right when Nintendo knocks on their door .... lol

 

[James_]

ryu has a patron too

Citra also has a Patreon

so does RPCS3
so does Xemu
so does Panda3DS
so doe-

 

[Bladexdsl]

Citra also has a Patreon

so does Ryujinx
so does RPCS3
so does Xemu
so does Panda3DS
so doe-

they all better watch their back than

 

[linuxares]

havent done the math myself but i read they made less than a million with their patreon, so theyd actually lose a lot

https://graphtreon.com/creator/yuzuteam
It's not 100% but still a chunk of money

 

[Ryab]

Can you share screenshots?

Sadly seems like it's been shutdown.

 

[MrSandstorm]

Ninty succeeded in waving around the justice system like a gun to scare away a software project that didn't strike their fancy, without even needing to actually argue their point in a court. How f-ing great.

Hope enough people backed-up the git.