• @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    874 months ago

    Obligatory fuck Nintendo, but don’t make too much light out of this lawsuit. They’re aren’t attacking the legality of emulation itself (which has a ton of precedent defending it) but are instead trying to convince a judge that Yuzu is a DRM circumvention tool.

    If they land a technologically-inept judge that believes decryption itself constitutes circumvention regardless of how it’s used in the bigger picture, there’s a decent chance the argument might have some teeth. Or, because there’s no precedent for this, the lawsuit will drag on until Yuzu runs out of money and is forced to settle.

    If it’s within your financial means, please donate to Yuzu. If they lose this lawsuit, the precedent it sets will open up other emulators that work with encrypted ROMs (e.g. Dolphin and Ryujinx) to similar lawsuits.

    • nudny ekscentryk
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      164 months ago

      I think it’s about money, just like with Vanced. Google didn’t care for the hacked YouTube client before the team behind the mod tried to make money off of it. Now Yuzu did the same and Nintendo went after them.

    • @Tak@lemmy.ml
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      I guess by this reasoning, Microsoft needs to be taken down for Windows circumventing DRM through running pirated material.

      Such a nonsensical claim by Nintendo.

    • @Trarmp@feddit.nl
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      If it’s within your financial means, please donate to Yuzu

      Are you absolutely joking? I’m not donating one cent to those clowns. I hate Nintendo and corporations with a passion, but Yuzu coding their emulator to support an un-release game – and making money off of it – is obviously the most illegal shit. There’s literally no way for emulating a pre-release game to be legal – how would you legally obtain a ROM of that? They did this to themselves. They’re going to way of Bowser rather than other emulators.

      Edit: Oh would you look at that, looks like Yuzu settled and is paying Nintendo 2.4 million dollars. That’s weird for a “”“non-profit open source project”“” to do.

      • @MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml
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        They did nothing to support totk before the release date as even stated in this article from pcgamers

        The emulation teams have forbidden all discussion of running Tears of the Kingdom from their Discord servers—Yuzu only allows vague discussion of the contents of the game, but requests for help or discussion of performance quickly earns chatters a deleted message and a warning or ban. To avoid being involved with pirated material, the emulator developers have vowed, at least publicly, not to release updates targeting issues with Tears of the Kingdom. “We are waiting for the game to release, so that members of our team can each legally dump their own copies of the game,”

        The game only happened to run without any work by them (and it’s understandable after 6 years of development and the various documentation already available for the switch’s tegra chip) and this is happening every time a new game for the switch is released.

      • @olaren_uwu
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        Tell me you don’t understand what emulation means without telling me you don’t understand what emulation means

    • @WolfLink@lemmy.ml
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      Steam didn’t want to get involved so they decided to remove Dolphin until Dolphin and Nintendo come to an agreement, which will never happen.

      Dolphin is still going strong on its own.

      • LazaroFilm
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        204 months ago

        Dolphin is still very real and updates frequently (in nightly builds). Check out their GitHub.

    • gila
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      374 months ago

      Dolphin is in a better state than it’s ever been, now has a resampler so you can get those crisp pixels like on original hardware. For anyone whose interest is in actually playing old Nintendo games over speculating on their IP, even if they own a cartridge, they’re probably playing on Dolphin.

    • @ERPAdvocate@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      34 months ago

      Fear not, yuzu may be gone but there are always alternatives. Plus like YouTube Vanced, the yuzu latest build is likely to continue to work for the foreseeable future.

      For a thriving alternative, check out Ryujinx, and keep an eye out for Yuzu mainline getting picked up by another team with a slightly higher barrier to entry.

      The neat thing about open source software is they are really hard to kill unless interest burns out, but considering how hard yuzu has been hitting headlines I think the Streisand effect will take it course.

      • @Zangoose@lemmy.one
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        True, I’m more worried about Citra since interest has kind of died down for that project. I’m kind of hoping some forks show up soon that get popular enough to be put onto a package manager since there aren’t many alternatives with the same compatibility/performance (from what I can tell Panda3ds isn’t very stable yet)