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Nintendo is trying to shut down almost all Switch Emulators, including Eden, Citron, Kenji-NX, and MeloNx (www.dsogaming.com)

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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damage

Was not it also because they have their Patreons subscribers things such as early access to leaked games?

IGN Article

From the article;

Nintendo's suit also claims Yuzu's Patreon page allows its developers to earn 30,000 a month by providing subscribers with "daily updates," "early access," and "special unreleased features" to games like Tears of the Kingdom by circumventing the protective measures Nintendo has in place to prevent piracy of video games.

I despise Nintendo but if this claim was true, they were earning money with pirated content, right?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Ah that might have been it then. As others pointed out, they never had the keys in the emulator itself.

Dunno if Yuzu provided the game itself, or tools to extract the game successfully, but the main argument from Nintendo was still copy protection bypassing, which is illegal.

Actually now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure they also nuked the Switch dumping tools from GitHub long before they killed Yuzu for the same reason. All it did was extract the firmware and console keys, but it was enough to force the tools to be rehosted.