Nintendo Sues Emulator Developers, Forcing Shutdown of Yuzu and Citra Projects
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Nintendo sued Tropic Haze LLC, developers of the Yuzu and Citra emulators, for $2.4 million and forced them to shut down the emulators.
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The lawsuit claimed Yuzu illegally required proprietary Switch files to run games. Citra was collateral damage, though not directly sued.
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Emulators themselves are legal, but requiring dumped firmware and encryption keys from consoles is a gray area that Nintendo attacked.
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As open source projects, Yuzu and Citra can reappear under new names, though very likely without the same brazen support of piracy.
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Emulator developers should lament, not lean into, any copyright infringement by users, even if emulators have many legal uses like archiving and format shifting games.