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 #Citra considering it has a similar development team.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090357/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-settlement
#yuzu #スプラトゥーン3 #スプラトゥーン #Splatoon3 #Splatoon #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @[email protected]
If anyone is interested in reading the actual settlement: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.56980/gov.uscourts.rid.56980.10.1.pdf
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.
Reports have now come in that the GitHub repository has been taken down.
The developers of Yuzu have made an official statement.
If I am interpreting this correctly, Citra could potentially be going too.
https://nitter.poast.org/yuzuemu/status/1764733659444064671#m
Citra is seemingly affected, see this post I made on my main account for more information.
It’s unfortunate that this has happened 😭
