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Switch emulator Yuzu is dead: abruptly settles lawsuit with Nintendo for $2.4 million in an enormous blow to console emulation


Yuzu's creators have agreed to "the destruction… of all copies of Yuzu" and to immediately cease development.

both went in favor of the emulator developers, but advances in technology since then leave a big question mark about how a court would rule on circumventing the Switch's encryption, something that is broadly forbidden by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Nintendo pointedly claimed that Yuzu is "primarily designed to circumvent technological measures," a very specific bit of language that indicates the emulator runs afoul of the DMCA. As part of the settlement, the Yuzu developers waive any right to appeal the judgment and are bound by a permanent injunction that essentially marks the death of the emulator, at least in the current form.

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