Since all these forks are based of yuzu souce code and the developers admitted it was primarily for piracy, doesn't this make these all an easy target to take down? I think this might prevent a true successor with active development from emerging.
No. Their statement as part of a settlement has no bearing on unrelated parties. It's not precedent.
And the code is already open source, so anyone and everyone has full rights to do anything they want within the license. No one is capable of DMCAing it (or rather, anyone is, but the author can trivially point to the license giving them the full right to modify and redistribute in a counterclaim).
I don't get why people are down-voting you. It's a perfectly legit question that I'm thinking about myself. I'm not a lawyer but there would be ways to shield yourself legally I'm sure.
i'd play totk on grapefruit, or kiyomi, or tangor, or even rangpur. perhaps kampei, or jabara, or iyokan. maybe lumia or pompia, or daidai, or chinotto, or calamansi. koji and reikou work too. suenkat/sunki, sudachi, kabosu, oroblanco, dangyuja, amanatsu... the possibilities are endless!
but maybe citri are too obvious, maybe we should think out of the box... like melons! honeydew sounds like a good emulator name (maybe a bit overused though), and so does argos, gaya or hami too! kajari, mirza, and dosakai as well...
As if that helps. People making pokemon hacks have been gotten forced to stop by Nintendo, despite making no money.
Nintendo will likely try to sue them still
The two I've seen so far are "Nuzu" and Suyu" - if Suyu has the proper structure set up so that Nintendo can't get at them, I think that's the name I'd prefer; but otherwise it just feels like people looking to get some cheap fame.
If either of these projects has an owner with a history of contributing to the Yuzu project, I think that's the one that'll succeed.
They are already doing that, and plenty of commits as well.
The main question now is if it will be further developed once they get the automatic builds up again. The good news is that Yuzu doesn't need much improvement now, just a few days before the lawsuit they did some very needed vram usage fixes so now development only has to focus on getting future titles to launch.
edit: Of course I'm talking about the pc builds, Getting android to work was a nightmare even for the original devs