Just last week, on Tuesday, February 26th, 2024, news broke out about the Yuzu emulator team being sued by none other than Nintendo themselves, with Nintendo claiming that the emulator apparently allowed users to play certain games early (due to street dates being broken) and also allowing piracy of the current Nintendo Switch system.

Today, in a rather surprisingly quick manner, it seems like Tropic Haze LLC., the company behind the Yuzu team, has reached a settlement with Nintendo in regards to the lawsuit. According to a recent official document uploaded just a few minutes ago, Tropic Haze will pay up 2.4 million USD in favour to Nintendo, with both parties agreeing in the settlement and its amount.

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UPDATE: According to the proposed Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction document, Yuzu as a whole in its current form will cease to exist, meaning no further development and prohibition of any distribution of built or source code forms of it.

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Official document of the settlement
Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction

 

[ut2k4master]

It is still currently unknown with certainty if the settlement will affect in any form the development of the Yuzu emulator or not, or if the emulator itself would go through revisions of any kind to reach the settlement.

 

[Kioku]

I have not sifted through the document yet. However, others are reporting that after this is finalized, Yuzu is done.

 

[Lotoonlink]

Ryujinx next???

 

[James_]

When the first document came out I was like "...well this was most neutral way this could've ended".

Then the Permanent Injunction came out.

Yeah, this is pretty fucked.


Edit: this has become even more fucked than I could've imagined.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Thanks for the update, I have updated the OP to reflect this.

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Go fuck yourself Nintendo, seriously.

And now, I fear emulators of all sorts will be next...

 

[Ondrashek06]

So, until a fork of it is made, Yuzu's gone permanently.

 

[Kioku]

Go fuck yourself Nintendo, seriously.

And now, I fear emulators of all sorts will be next...

I want to know why a settlement was reached... Never will I guess. However, it seems a bit odd that if emulation is wholly legal, why did Yuzu bow out? Legal fees? The world will never know..

 

[Newhouse-Estates]

This is no big deal if development ceases, the emu is already built up very well and the damage has been done.
If nintendo released Zelda TOTK on better hardware that wasn't hacked since year one they wouldn't be able to complain about this. I played it on my pc because it just looks and feels playable then on my switch. I'm glad i can backup my game and play them on Yuzu in MUCH better quality.

 

[Noctosphere]

Nintendo being Nintendo, doing Nintendo stuff to us, while offering us Nintendont products

 

[DKB]

It was sort of silly to believe they were going not get fucked. Not a legal precedent, however. But, still, fucked up.

 

[nubman33]

Go fuck yourself Nintendo, seriously.

And now, I fear emulators of all sorts will be next...

emulator enable piracy. cry more

 

[AngryCinnabon]

emulator enable piracy. cry more

Nice bait buddy. i'm gonna ignore ya from here on out.

 

[James_]

emulator enable piracy. cry more

(this is the 2nd time I've used this image lmao)

 

[SaulFabre]

F*ck this.
Go f*ck Nintendo yourself.
I'm dead f*cking serious.
FOR REAL!!!!!!

Ryujinx, you better hide yourself of those Nintendo ninjas...

 

[SylverReZ]

There's going to be loads of forks that Nintendo cannot control.

 

[linuxares]

Ryujinx next???

This is a settlement. Not a judgement.

But yes, if they wish. They can go after Ryujinx. I don't think they will, but they could.


EDIT: https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam <-- most likely WHY they wanted Yuzu down.

 

[spotanjo3]

Very sad but yuzu emulator update just released 4 hours ago. I am surprised that Nintendo didnt sue them for Citra 3DS emulator but yuzu ? Interested.

I am sure that someone else will used the source and continue working on it.

Nintendo, I will not buy your next system at all.

 

[linuxares]

Very sad but yuzu emulator update just released 4 hours ago. I am surprised that Nintendo didnt sue them for Citra 3DS emulator but yuzu ? Interested.

I am sure that someone else will used the source and continue working on it.

Nintendo, I will not buy your next system at all.

Citra = was last kind of last gen, lack of interest of on it, pretty much came out at the end of it's life.
Yuzu = Been current gen all the way.