Last week, Nintendo announced that they were filing a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the creators of Yuzu emulator for Nintendo Switch and Citra for Nintendo 3DS. In a recent development, Tropic Haze has declared that they will cease development and shut down the emulator download channels, with the team compensating Nintendo with a hefty sum of $2,400,000.
Tropic Haze, through Yuzu’s website, stated that their team has always opposed copyright infringement and began this project with integrity. However, their program circumvented Nintendo’s technological protection measures, allowing users to play Nintendo games on unauthorized devices, leading to rampant copyright infringement. The team’s greatest disappointment was users using Yuzu to play unreleased games, disrupting the gaming experience for those who rightfully purchased the games.
As a result, the team has decided to halt further development by removing the program’s code from the website, closing the Patreon account and Discord server, and shutting down the website. They hope that this action will serve as a small step to curb unauthorized game emulation.
Tropic Haze has agreed to hand over the domain name yuzu-emu.org to Nintendo, along with deleting copies of Yuzu and development tools such as TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer. They will also surrender devices used to circumvent copyright protection and modified gaming devices for Nintendo. Additionally, they will not delete any other evidence of IP infringement against Nintendo. Recently, the source code for Yuzu and Citra has been removed from GitHub.
Source – Yuzu via The Verge
TLDR: Tropic Haze, creators of Yuzu emulator, have decided to cease development and shut down their download channels, compensating Nintendo with $2,400,000 amid copyright infringement concerns.
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