Nintendo's lawsuit against the Yuzu emulator ended yesterday with a settlement between the two parties. The developer of Yuzu Simulator promised $2.4 million in damages, plus the suspension of Yuzu Simulator and the handover of official **, to settle the incident. The whole process highlights a smoothness, and of course, there are many people who are amazed by the "light speed slip kneeling" of the Yuzu simulator.
However, the confrontation between emulators and Nintendo, a genuine game manufacturer, does not end there. Within less than 24 hours of the Yuzu emulator, two new emulators, Nuzu and Suzu, were launched on GitHub. The developers of these two emulators are not shy about saying that their source ** is based on the latest version of the Yuzu emulator.
If you think that's the end of it, you're underestimating the aggressiveness of the developers. The Suzu emulator was later introduced on the GitHub page: "To the Nintendo legal team: You can't beat us, and even if you defeat me, more people will come." Even if you take them all off the shelves, there will still be more. You've already lost this battle. ”
This project does not support piracy, you need to provide the game and the key yourself, we will not make money from this project (mainly so that Nintendo does not sue us, haha) This branch is to make sure that Nintendo cannot extinguish Yuzu, long live the emulator! ”
The launch of these two new works seems to convey the belief that "simulators will not die" to the outside world. It's just that a lot of the time, what happens in reality is also extremely dramatic. Only 6 hours after it was launched, the nuzu emulator was removed from github and the library was deleted. The suzu emulator also cuts to gitlab, which is nowhere near as hard as it seems.
And the actual situation of the person who created the nuzu simulator was also dug up.,It turns out that the author is just a 14-year-old boy in reality.,And he can only write with chatgpt**。 Originally, he was just resentful of Nintendo, and his original intention was to live. But netizens are not used to him, and the Internet is currently giving this prank teenager a little "cyberbullying shock".
The conflict between emulators and manufacturers has a long history, and Sony fought VGS, the first emulator developer, 25 years ago. The two sides went to court, but Sony won first and then lost, and VGS was finally allowed to appeal after appealing. The judge who heard the case at the time said: . .
The emulator's act of reverse-engineering the Sony PS is a necessary means for it to understand the non-legally protected elements of the host system, and the former does not directly copy any ** of the latter, so this reverse engineering falls under the category of fair use. ”
In the years that followed, emulators became the carrier of many pirated games, but they were rarely targeted by manufacturers. This time, Nintendo's lawsuit against Yuzu was not based on pirated games, but on the accusation that it "illegally circumvented technical measures to prevent Switch games from running on other hardware", and it quickly paid off.
With this victory, Nintendo may face more challenges from various "UZU servers" in the coming days.
I don't know what everyone thinks about this?