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News / Emulation: Switch emulator Yuzu is officially being discontinued

A huge loss for emulation today.

The Switch emulator Yuzu, which can be used to emulate Splatoon 2 and 3 as well as Animal Crossing New Horizons was recently sued. I didn't feel like reporting on the situation at the time because I didn't feel like it largely affected us (I don't know why you would want to emulate Splatoon in Yuzu anyways, Ryujinx makes more sense imo).

We have now found out that the team behind the emulator has agreed to settle with Nintendo for $2.4M which means anything relating to the Yuzu emulator will disappear. We're currently unsure about what this means for considering it has a similar development team.

theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090357

@splatoon@lemmy.world

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The Verge · Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuitBy Sean Hollister

@splatoon@lemmy.world

I am personally hoping nothing happens to Citra given the same development team. I'm not as bothered regarding Switch emulation as 3DS emulation.

3DS is older hardware and it personally allowed me to experience some 3DS classics before picking up a 3DS of my own around 2 years ago.

If anything does happen to Citra, I'd like to give a shout-out to @mikage which is a 3DS emulator you might want to check out.

@splatoon@lemmy.world

Reports have now come in that the GitHub repository has been taken down.

wetdry.world/@kat/112038972053

@splatoon@lemmy.world

The developers of Yuzu have made an official statement.

If I am interpreting this correctly, Citra could potentially be going too.

nitter.poast.org/yuzuemu/statu

@splatoon I have a copy of the source still, if anyone wants

@akatsukilevi I have a copy of Yuzu installed if I ever want to play stuff on it but there definitely are a few backups going around

@kat seemingly has one and other people do too

@splatoon @kat Also have for Arch Linux, hopefully it doesn't break anytime soon
@splatoon Y'all, Citra repo is still up, git clone it before it's too late
@splatoon AND JUST AS I SAID, IT'S DOWN
I CLONED AT THE RIGHT TIME