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SCB3
Member
See I'm somewhat anti-piracy, to a point, playing games you own or can no longer buy is fair game imo, especially if they can be played better
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
Hopefully this won’t affect CitraVR
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BaldingAshCrimson
Member
Does that mean Nintendo will dump all 3DS games on the Switch/2? So I can give them my money, for games I want to play officially?
No?
Oh, this is great...
No?
Oh, this is great...
graywolf323
Member
yep, seriously everyone who was saying Yuzu was special because it was “current hardware” how do you explain why Nintendo took out Citra while they were at it?
metareferential
Member
Mandatory fuck Nintendo.
Senua
Member
onnextflix5
Member
Citra is not being shut down, its open source, citra and yuzu have the same devs, Nintendo settlement requires them stop all emulation development, wish they would fought in the courts with help of the community, but it’s their choice end of the day.
Hudo
Member
This. That shit is already out there and forked to hell and back. It might take a while again for others to get to grip with the code. But this is literally a train that cannot be stopped anymore.
Nintendo are acting far too late.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
They basically took down Yuzu devs, and committed them to exiting the emulation scene as part of the settlement.yep, seriously everyone who was saying Yuzu was special because it was “current hardware” how do you explain why Nintendo took out Citra while they were at it?
Yuzu devs worked on Citra originally (*although to be honest, they were basically inactive for years on it, and Citra is maintained mainly by community effort now) and still had a presence on it, so naturally they had to cease all connection with that as well.
But Citra lives in on a ton of forks across Github, no apparent action against any of them--just a total removal of Yuzu guys from the scene.
And again.... Nintendo hasn't taken action against any of the other devs out there who aren't pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in Patreon funds fueled by current-gen piracy. They didn't even bother Dolphin emulator a bit except to say: no, you can't put it on Steam. Which is reasonable. Putting emulators on storefronts like Google Play (Yuzu idiots) is asking for heat to rain down on the community.
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existensmaximum
Member
Yeah it's a weird and stupid decision of them - but in the end, it's their decision and their right to not do so.
JordiENP
Member
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Not sure what this screenshot adds.
One again, it says specifically "Yuzu's support of Citra" will end, because the main issue is that Yuzu devs cannot be involved in any emulation scene now. Citra itself has not been directly targeted by any legal action by Nintendo, nor has Dolphin (*except to stay off Steam), etc.
JordiENP
Member
go to the citra website, it's down. Yuzu supports, because yuzu owns Citra.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Their hosting and mirrors of the code, websites, etc is all shut down, yes.
But Citra will live on in open-source development as it has for years, in other forks which are readily available across Github. Even on the main Citra repo, the Yuzu guys barely contributed at all the past several years, it's all community effort now.
ReBurn
Gold Member
They know they can't remove it. They know they can bankrupt the people who profit from it. Emulator devs making money from Patreon support are going to keep getting sued.
Lethal01
Member
amigastar
Member
If the Switch 2 has beefy hardware, Emulation would be a no go anyways for many years.Are they hitting Switch emulation late?
Or are they hitting switch 2 emulation early?
CityHunter1981
Member
Of course Nintendo want to close their 3DS vault, so that they can bring these titles to the Switch 2 as full price games.
Senua
Member
And the same people who applaud this news will happily lap those up.
alucard0712_rus
Gold Member
Good news is that we have Yuzu and Citra builds that can run almost everything already.
Puscifer
Member
How is it any different than games leaking on original hardware? I use to play leaks on hacked xboxes 1-2 weeks early ALL the time, there's hacked switches out there, there's new cartridges that are basically R4 for switch on original hardware and if switch 2 is going to continue it'll pretty much never stop at this point
VolticArchangel
Member
SiahWester
Member
I don't even care about Yuzu but taking Citra down is unforgivable. There are so many great projects updating textures. It gave 3DS games new life. I could care less of Yuzu, but Citra must come back under a different name.
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SiahWester
Member
Why wouldn't it? The main site for Citra is down. This is why its extra painful because Citra VR had so much potential.
Sorry for the double post.
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tkscz
Member
Technically they didn't take down Citra, Tropical Haze, the people who created it and Yuzu, are doing this on their own. Nowhere in the lawsuit does it say Citra.The Switch successor will be out in a year. To quoteTopher , "Too little, too late." Nintendo should have done this half a decade ago.
Like I said in the Yuzu thread, this was most likely done because of the mass pirating of TotK that happened a week before it had released. Tropical Haze got it up and running on Yuzu before the official release of the game. That was less than a year ago.
StereoVsn
Member
Yeah, I agree. Higher res rendering of 3DS, upscaled textures, and higher frame rates make those games quite a bit better overall.
ReyBrujo
Member
You need talented people for that. There aren't that many. At least not that many interested in working with that code knowing Nintendo already said No.
The fact that they accepted doing that in the injunction means it was agreed upon, aka Nintendo asked them to shut it down as well.
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majestix1988
Member
Rise of private builds or such begins today
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
It's being handled by *edit* Amanda Watson along with Team Beef(6dof mod), so Tropic Haze might have agreed to cease support and distribution of Yuzu and Citra, but they might continue forward with the project since it's more a port and a mod of the emulator than something they directly developed. I don't believe Nintendo was even targeting Citra, it seemed to be Yuzu-specific.
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SenkiDala
Member
"We've always been again piracy but we delivered a software that the sole purpose is to play illegally downloaded / ripped games (yes ripping the games you own is still illegal) and we made millions $ with premium Yuzu paid version but it was to play homebrews pfff"... Seriously those guys.Bunnei confirms Yuzu is shutting down — and it’ll hit Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra too.
Here’s the whole memo from Bunnei, who was lead contributor on both emulators. We’ve also added the full text to our main story if that makes it easier to read. Yuzu’s GitHub is already down.
via The Verge
SiahWester
Member
I guess there's a small chance that continues on, but I really doubt Amanda Watson and Team Beef want a target on their back. Hopefully it doesn't intimidate them. Maybe they can just rename it to something else.
Pejo
Member
The FUD this lawsuit created is a lot more harmful to the emulator scene than development of Yuzu being shut down.
I really can't understand Nintendo fans that are cheering on Emulation being shut down though. I know in my heart it's a fanboy thing but it just seems so crazy to me that it's hard to properly understand.
I really can't understand Nintendo fans that are cheering on Emulation being shut down though. I know in my heart it's a fanboy thing but it just seems so crazy to me that it's hard to properly understand.
VeganElduderino
Member
exactly , I'm loving it on Quest 3 , so much potential , Mario Kart 7 is awesome!
Stevonidas
Member
Hence the term CopyRIGHT.
bigdad2007
Member
People need to stop pretending like Yuzu is like every other emulator. People were more or less bragging about how they were “owning” greedy Nintendo by stealing all their games and playing them in HD on their PC.
There is nothing worse then hypocritical fake socialism where more or less the rules of society apply to everyone except for them, because they are the main character. It was always stupid to develop a switch emulator while the switch was out. And doubly considering Nintendo likely will use at least some of the hardware to let there be BC on switch 2.
Citra just got hit by this just because it was hosted and developed by the same team.
I love emulation, but I have serious contempt for people who feel entitled to pirate games that are currently for sale.
There is nothing worse then hypocritical fake socialism where more or less the rules of society apply to everyone except for them, because they are the main character. It was always stupid to develop a switch emulator while the switch was out. And doubly considering Nintendo likely will use at least some of the hardware to let there be BC on switch 2.
Citra just got hit by this just because it was hosted and developed by the same team.
I love emulation, but I have serious contempt for people who feel entitled to pirate games that are currently for sale.
Killjoy-NL
Member
Why don't PC gamers just buy Nintendo hardware?
VeganElduderino
Member
bought it twice , sold it twice , it sits there and collects dust.
Killjoy-NL
Member
Then apparently you don't need an emulator either.
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