The Yuzu creators have additionally agreed to delete all copies of Yuzu, hand Nintendo any bodily circumvention instruments and modified Nintendo {hardware}, and all circumvention instruments which have been used to develop or use Yuzu, which incorporates “TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer”.
In a press release shared on Twitter, initially posted within the Yuzu discord server (by way of The Verge) by developer bunnei, the workforce state that they “have all the time been in opposition to piracy” and that they began the undertaking “in good religion” and have been deeply disillusioned when customers have used our software program to leak recreation content material previous to its launch and destroy the expertise for respectable purchasers and followers.”
On Twitter, OatmealDome notes that Citra is already shutting down, and Yuzu additionally seems to have been faraway from Github. Nonetheless, the supply code is probably going nonetheless on the market from individuals who have already downloaded it.
Whether or not this may have an effect on different emulators is difficult to say at this level, but it surely’s a transparent assertion from Nintendo, which has all the time had a powerful stance in opposition to emulation.
If we hear any extra information on this, we’ll replace you.
[source storage.courtlistener.com, via x.com, bsky.app]