• Daniel Quinn
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    11810 months ago

    It’s funny, before this, I was just going to buy a legit copy and play it on my Deck (I have a Switch, but prefer the Deck)

    Now, fuck those guys. If I play at all, it’ll be on a pirated copy.

    • @[email protected]
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      3110 months ago

      Deck is superior to Switch! And obligatory F—- Nintendo, and their 1990’s mindset with games and hardware. I’m convinced they’ll have to financially fail to start caring. Even a 30% reduction in their sales and player counts should quickly seize their attention.

      At this point 2024 is looking like the Year Of Nintendo’s Failures starting off with Palworld. They certainly deserve to fail!

  • @[email protected]
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    9510 months ago

    With all that free money, it looks like Nintendo will be just fine if I never purchase another one of their games. Hell, I may even offer to hack some of my friends’ systems just to spite Nintendo.

    • @[email protected]
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      2310 months ago

      I’m gonna rcm my switch now and copy my animal crossing island to my PC to be emulated. Shoulda done that a long time ago to have a backup that I actually own instead of having to pay Nintendo to keep my save data backed up. I see no reason to play any more Nintendo games on my switch, much less purchase any more when I have my steam deck.

  • @[email protected]
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    9010 months ago

    So this defensive strategy was planned from the beginning. The L in LLC stands for limited. It means Nintendo won’t get any money. Tropic Haze LLC declares bankruptcy and tells Nintendo “our assets are two rolls of toilet paper and this empty can of coke, GL with getting your millions”. Certainly cheaper than fighting a top lawyer team with unlimited funding

    • @[email protected]
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      2110 months ago

      Yeah the LLC structure always seemed weird to people. After what happened to Bowser serving prison sentence and having his future earnings garnished for the rest of his life, this might have been the smart play. Yuzu group will never be able to pay the 2 mil. Company goes under and owners walk away from this escaping real harm.

  • @[email protected]
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    7110 months ago

    And no one ever pirated a Nintendo game ever again.

    In other news:

    • Switch sales up 2000%!
    • Nintendo stock reaches all-time high!
    • Half-Life 3 released!
  • @MyNamesNotRobert
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    Fuck Nintendo. Find better games for your kids to play. Buy a Sega genesis with an everdrive or set up a raspberry pi or something. Tux kart is better than Mario cart these days anyway.

  • @[email protected]
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    5110 months ago

    Saw this coming and made sure to update one last time. Ill probably just switch to Ryujinx at some point.

    RIP Yuzu

    • The Uncanny Observer
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      4910 months ago

      It isn’t dead yet. The source code was downloaded by a bunch of people when the lawsuit was announced, so there’s already forks being uploaded to other accounts.

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        Its dead. Another project based on it source code might arise but it won’t be the same team and will take a while before it would be smart to trust the new project.

        My guess is the most recent version of Yuzu, as a stand alone, will probably work for a long time anyway. So i guess there is that…

        • The Uncanny Observer
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          That’s what I mean. They say you aren’t truly dead until the last person forgets your name. Yuzu might not have the same team going forward, but the source code is there, and somebody will continue the project. We won’t forget where it came from, and so Yuzu will live on.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        Source has been posted on Internet Archive (along with the latest builds for a bunch of platforms). Something will likely rise from the ashes of YuZu, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it takes a few years. Nintendo is probably gonna be extra litigious this year (even more than usual), due to them likely failing to have the Switch’s successor ready this year, and not really having a full slate of games ready, so with Switch sales projected to be down, best to lay low on anything that might get Nintendo’s attention for a while.

      • @MyNamesNotRobert
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        Fuck Nintendo. They’re going on my shitlist forever. They were already on my shitlist. Now they’re just on the same level as HP which is the lowest level.

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          Same, I haven’t supported them since 2020 but after this I’m never coming back. They can go fuck themselves, I hope their “Switch 2” fails like the WiiU did.

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        Yeah hard to say. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ryujinx gets hit next. It looks like the source code for Yuzu is, at the very least, saved on the wayback machine, so my guess is a fork will eventually pop up.

        • @MyNamesNotRobert
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          It seems like a better strategy would be to host this on the dark net. When working on projects like this, they need to start putting effort into making it so that it’s almost impossible to link them to real life people. People sell drugs on there all the time and seem to get away with it. Maybe we need to adapt.

          We need an “Illegal software github” kind of like pirate sites but for source code that governments and corporations don’t want people to have.

          • CronyAkatsuki
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            Shitty thing is, emulators and emulation themself aren’t ilegall.

            What nintendo attacked here is the fact yuzu was used to play copies of games for their still used and developed for system, doesn’t matter whether it was pirated or not to them, all they care about is the fact that it was a current gen system emulator and they didn’t like that fact because they think it hurts their sales.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            Yes, absolutely. I’m sure experienced, qualified developers are clamoring to invest thousands of hours of work into a fork of a project hosted exclusively in a space only a fraction of a percent of the online world will ever access. I love the “fuck corpos” attitude from this community, I really do. But Yuzu development is dead. Super dead. Nintendo killed it and all the other emulator teams and game publishers are looking at it thinking about what’s next.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      Same. Updated on my desktop, though I forgot my Steam Deck. Apparently you can still update on Linux, so I’ll be doing that after work

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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    And just like that, Nintendo have guaranteed to never get a dime of my money again 🏴‍☠️

    What a greedy corpo. I’ll be waiting on the MVG video covering all the legal details whenever that drops

    • @[email protected]
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      1110 months ago

      Same, and they fucked up the Citra Emulation too, and it’s the only 3DS Emulator. Nintendo may makes great games, but they are better in a museum than fucking up the industry like that.

      Sony will follow these steps.

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    As of right now Citra and Yuzu are both available via Flathub!! If you want them there’s still time!!!

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        Installs are nothing. Fork it. Improve it. Even better if original devs would still contribute.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Honestly someone should just copy all of the files onto 10, 000 cheap small flash drives and just hand them out everywhere.

  • Revan Suzuno
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    @mr_MADAFAKA between this and sending Gary Bowser to jail and taking money from him while in prison … i will NEVER buy another nintendo product. I should have come to this conclusion LONG ago … but i guess better late than never.
    #fucknintendo

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    Anyone know where to get the most recent linux build as a .deb? I wanna have an installer in case I have to wipe my os or something like that.

      • mesamune
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        1010 months ago

        I wouldn’t put anything on GH at this point, not with lawsuits going around.

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        More important than maintaining the source code though is forming a new group to manage the continued development of Yuzu and Citra. Hopefully they don’t fracture into ten groups all making parallel improvements.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          No, I hope they do and all on open source so they can pull from each other’s improvements. Redundancy will help keep things going

      • Bappity
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        210 months ago

        github forks can easily be DMCA-ed, find a mirror somewhere other than github

  • DebatableRaccoon
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    1710 months ago

    Fuck Nintendo. Bunch of money hungry cunts. I hope their sales plummet. Emulation isn’t illegal but here fucking are being forced to buy their horrendously shitty console to play a game. Glad I bought mine secondhand and already sold it. You once had honour. Now you can commit seppuku

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    I guess this is damage control, since they are afraid of setting a precedent of potentially killing off legal emulation in the US for good.

    There’s no chance, an emulator dev team can take it up against Nintendo’s lawyers.

    Don’t blame Nintendo, blame capitalism.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      True, if they went to court and lost, every emulator project would likely be sued. But settling out of court also sets a precedent, or rather perpetuates the current status quo of crushing any vaguely gray area fan project with the threat of legal action. The shutdown of Yuzu will embolden Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony to be more aggressive about killing off these projects. Until someone does take one of these three to trial and wins, things are going to continue getting worse for game preservation.