Rip Yuzu
Rip Yuzu
Nintendo competing to get the most evil corporation award from activision.
91They'll release a new Mario game and everyone will forget
44Those loyal fans love sucking off Nintendo and defending every decision they make even when it fucks them in the ass in the long run.
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I think we’re going to have to wait till they drop the next console. But who knows
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Introducing Uzuy, with torrent based updating. Eat shit, Nintendo.
68If BEP46 is implemented, yes please.
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Lots of optimism for Yuzu living on in some fork of the code, but I don't expect it will be that simple. Qualified new devs will not be likely to invest anywhere near the time and energy the original devs have. If they're smart, they'll avoid taking direct donations, which means the project will at best be a side hobby. Switch emulation will become a lot harder to document if development fragments into smaller forks. Not sure if a game is compatible or what settings to use? Maybe you'll find some recommended settings for Yuzu Fork A, but not Fork G you set up because it has better compatibility with another game you were interested in. Information is going to be confusing, inaccurate, and inconsistent as the scene goes underground. Links and other sources won't be as trustworthy or safe. What was once a fun and easy way to play games will become a risk and a chore. I'm glad there are immediate efforts to get the project back online, but I can't see this settlement as anything less than a massive blow to emulation and game preservation as a whole. Decades of legal precedent that developers have relied on to safely do their work is being thrown out. Things are objectively worse now than they were before. We are already exiting the golden age of emulation.
46All those people act like an emulator is easy work. It's more like a full time job.
21Maybe they should start a patreon
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Switch emulation is not going anywhere, and will likely continue to be built off the foundations laid by Yuzu.
The biggest takeaway from this is I imagine Nintendo had the devs dead to rights on promoting piracy directly, rather than focusing on only communicating how to play legitimate back-ups only.
So going forward any smart dev-team would make sure to wait for a game to launch before producing an updated version to support it, as well as being vigilant that all communication through official channels avoids any discussion that enables piracy or directly links to a secondary source that does so.
4Seems to me you weren't around for the days of DS emulation.
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Twozu
32Uszu. Thyzu. Mezu.
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Look forward to them using the code in their new product and not giving two shits about the oss license. Again.
Anyone know what nostalgia resale era they're into? N64 I would guess.. gotta make sure everything sells for $70 or more for all time.
27Nintendo is past their era of selling the same games to you over and over. Now their old games are subscription based, so you can never stop paying them and never own your childhood classics.
4Yo ho. I think you may be right me matey 🏴☠️🦜
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Nintendo being Nintendo. They've killed websites, device vendors, projects and more. Otherwise Liksang and Bung would still be around. They take the same destroyer of worlds tactic to any meetings. Crush the opposition, no survivors.
This time I think the internet may surprise them, unless they just get a blanket order on anyone hosting copies of the code or related materiels.
26Decentralised software publishing and updates when
26(Obv. not legal advice) Step 1: Create non profit for "supporting emulation" Step 2: Use non profit to support devs by helping them create llc's for their emulators (cause no liability on the persons) Step 4: Whenever nintendo sues (and maybe wins), help them regroup under a new llc Step 5: whatch them play whack-a-mole
24Step 6: (non-)profit.
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Looks like it might be coming back as suyu
24Just one of many "forks" we'll see pop up over the next few months. Maybe this one has actual developers involved and isn't just a repo, but it's too be seen. Funny name, though.
15For clarification they've updated the repository to suyu-emu/suyu.
5I love the name lol
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Git forked, newb
20Here comes the hydra.
15The Strydrasand
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Fuck you Nintendo you absolute cunts. Won't ever get another penny from me
15Fo' shuzu, my nuzu.
4If I was able to continue dev on an emulator I would totally name it like that. Or 2 YU 2 ZU and just at 2's to the split pieces on the logo.
3“2 ZU 4 YU”
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