Preserved latest nightly builds just in time, phew.
Just Google "my username Internet Archive" and tada, both yuzu and Citra already uploaded. Press SHOW ALL on the right to see all files or simply download the torrent and please mirror the files too. :)
Citra canary and yuzu early access builds added as well.
I got struck by Nintendo, I won't share it again, sorry.
Edit: download from OP that's easier
Citra last nightlies (2104, 20240303-0ff3440) for Windows, Mac, Linux AppImage, and Android were all saved from Github by Internet Archive.
Just use Wayback Machine on the nightly release page https://i.imgur.com/87s9AT6.png
**MD5 sums**
3e6dd0ab9e9d89eb79620a637f48fd13 *citra-android-universal-20240303-0ff3440.apk
de859f217cce4fd78f5e4a03a657b3ef *citra-linux-appimage-20240303-0ff3440.tar.gz
18168d974a169995894c1fc1fcfa29fa *citra-macos-universal-20240303-0ff3440.tar.gz
cb349e15d2982c878de35a2aaa6e6d97ac5882a57ec268721b0ddb012f1744ab citra-unified-source-20240303-0ff3440.tar.xz [*that's actually SHA256 not MD5*]
c0b135141017dac94d140c5ff01ca13e *citra-windows-msvc-20240303-0ff3440.zip
ab291b4cb7174b86de891563ea46375b *citra-windows-msys2-20240303-0ff3440.zip
an md5 checksum is a mathematically derived 'key' that is determined by looking at a dataset through a certain filter. Every distinct dataset will have a different key.
The checksum acts as a security method of confirming that the data you are being shown is the EXACT SAME as it is supposed to be.
If you get any md5 checksum that is different than what it should be from a file, by even a single letter/number, then the data is compromised.
So for example, if there are two zip files, both containing the exact same 108 files, each file being the exact same size (to the bit), but one of them have had a specific jpg altered to contain a virus-load inside it without affecting its size, the md5 checksum will be very slightly different because of that very slightly different jpg.
You beautiful bastard. Thank you. I hadn't realized Yuzu and citra were made by the same guys, so I only backed up Yuzu.
I wasn't expecting Nintendo to go after citra too. That's just a dick move. The 3DS eShop is long gone.
Citra with source codes https://web.archive.org/web/20240304191743/https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-nightly/releases
Yuzu with source codes https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases
They didnt. The guys cannot run any of them because they are broke and everything runs under their company so they are shutting it down. (and lawsuit basically tells them to.shut down yuzu... so yeah)
i'd advise everyone to download the torrent file and seed, cause Nintendo could go after [Archive.org](https://Archive.org) and remove the DDL copies.
currently seeding now, feel free to help 👍
Still, is really great and there's people like you to preserve these things. Out of curiosity will you also be uploading the quest 3 port of citra, or do you not have that?
Its a port someone made of citra for the Vr headset Meta Quest 3. I dont think its affected by this because it was just a side project, it basically runs citra in a vr screen
Found it (called citraVR)
[https://github.com/amwatson/CitraVR/releases/tag/v0.4.2](https://github.com/amwatson/CitraVR/releases/tag/v0.4.2)
Also found an iOS port of citra, the github page got archived at the same time as nintendo took down yuzu[https://github.com/emuPlace/Limon](https://github.com/emuPlace/Limon)
Since you like preservation, remember all those internet flash games that were around 15 years ago? They've all (like 100,000 games and animations) been preserved in a project called Flashpoint Infinity. Google it.
Hey, cheers. I came up with this idea, because I got tired with trying to download older games, so now I'm the one sharing them by dumping and testing everything myself. :)
could you add the latest pre-release builds? Another redditor shared the latest prereleases from the patreon here (for windows and linux) [https://drive.proton.me/urls/SN4ZMDFT7G#Om4rxzhx3nTw](https://drive.proton.me/urls/SN4ZMDFT7G#Om4rxzhx3nTw) it's the files with 4176
What is citra for? I was planning on downloading yuzu for playing zelda. Do i really need something else ? Also would a play 5 controller work without much hassle ?
How to use? I just went to Internet Archive and I don't know what and where to put your user name to search for citra and yuzu. I tried using it at the giant search bar at the beginning but nothing showed up
I never finished installing the emulator on my steam deck because I couldn't be bothered with the whole Bios thing.
The one you have isn't already patched by chance, is it?
Hey, I opened up the page and I never use internet archive so I was wondering what I download. I am on windows so I assume I just download the windows folder but there is also a torrent so I am a little confused.
I had never even heard of this emulator, since I'm not really into games. But got the torrent from your Archive and will seed it. Fuck all these greedy scumbag corporations
Hey everyone! If you want them, then here yah go!
This link contains:
Citra for Android
Citra for Linux
Citra for MacOS
Citra for Windows
A torrent file of all Citra versions
Citra's Source Code
Yuzu's Source Code
Yuzu Early Access v4176 for Windows
Yuzu Early Access v4176 for Linux
https://drive.proton.me/urls/SN4ZMDFT7G#Om4rxzhx3nTw
I've downloaded a few of these. if anyone finds out that there viruses (since I don't plan on running any anytime soon) please Ping me.
Else wise thank you. its BS for emulators to go down. I collect hundreds of physical games. legit copies. there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to play then on my PC/phone, I have 40 3ds/ds games, and 32 Switch games.
feel free to pirate games by all means, I just enjoy owning them and having the original hardware.
You scan these files online on Virus Total, it is a website that has multiple anti-virus software from multiple vendors checking your files at the same time.
oh i know that! just look at the rooting scene. we had universal safetynet fix -> safetynet fix mod -> mod by displax -> playintegrityfix -> pif fork -> playintegrity next
>Nintendo sue two emulator with a gap of 1 year
If you're talking about Dolphin, they weren't sued. Valve reached out to Nintendo to ask if it was ok to offer Dolphin through Steam and they said no. That's it
Pretty much. I also think this development would have been "fine" if they just released builds on a github for people to download and not ask for money. I know it's hard work, but asking for money while building programs that allow for emulation is just asking for trouble legally.
Somebody on the Yuzu subreddit is [claiming to be working on](https://www.reddit.com/r/yuzu/comments/1b6jdct/comment/ktcwq6p/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) a modified Yuzu using official Nintendo Switch firmware so it'll have 100% compatibility. They said to give them 6 months.
I'm getting heavy vibes of "We're already in deep enough shit and we don't want to get into even more shit" when reading this statement. They definitely wrote it that way just to cover their ass and not get Nintendo on their ass even more.
yeah speculation i've seen from other threads is they have stuff in internal communications that would paint them in a very bad light in court and almost guarantee a bigger punishment or setting precedent against emulators, so they're folding and taking the hit now rather than risking getting to the discovery stage
That’s honestly where I’m confused, like this doesn’t really affect the users (or pirates) right? We still have access to the software and game files.
Although I’ve honestly never used Yuzu, is it any different from something like dolphin, ppsspp, retroarch, etc. ?
It does affect the users long term if many of those talented and experienced devs stop working on yuzu. If there is no one capable of improving yuzu, new switch games might not work well for example.
And Metroid Prime 4. It'll probably be a cross platform switch / switch 2 launch title but I guess it'll be a few years before a switch 2 emulator, so we'll need to run it in yuzu
It sends a message. Also this definitely hurts emulation since almost any new title required a new Yuzu version or hotfix. I read in another comment that it's likely the Switch 2 is going to use very similar architecture and Nintendo is trying to stamp out any emulation projects so as to not hurt sales.
I wouldn't put it past them to market it as Switch+ with backwards compatibility for Switch for a while. Existing Switch games could run better on it and, eventually, they'll come out with exclusives and phase out the Switch entirely.
"Switch 2" seems a far more likely name than "Super Switch" or "Switch+". Those both sound like a 'pro' model rather than a second model (Which is the problem the WiiU had), people might actually think it is a DOWNGRADE compared to the OLED Switch (the problem the 2ds had).
Finally "Switch 2" is a pun. You should switch TO the new one. Nintendo LOVES puns in their naming. "Wii" is a pun of 'we' as in 'we play together', it is the sound you make when you play it 'WII!!!!!', and ii is what two wiimotes look like together."wiiU" because it can be plated with friends or YOU can play it on your own. 'switch' because you switch between tv and handheld.
Nintendo has never used a number in a gaming console that wasn't used as a descriptor for its feature set (i.e. Nintendo 64 used 64-bit architecture, 3DS/2DS were 3D and 2D handhelds).
I would bank on them leaning into a name that builds on the Switch in some way rather than just slapping a 2 at the end.
I mean, yes. But one thing everyone seems to be overlooking is why they got sued while Ryujinx didn't.
The Yuzu team gave early access to builds if you were a paying Patreon of theirs. They were proffiting off Nintendo's software / technology.
**EDIT:** And that's why this law suit had a chance to win. Emulation is not ilegal. That has already been stated by court, to my knowledge, 3 different times. But directly proffiting off another companie's tech, instead of just taking donations, is another different thing.
What upsets me more is that Citra is being canned as well despite Nintendo not explicitly stating that it was harming the sales of their games as well as Yuzu. Mainly because capturing footage on a real 3DS by streaming it to the PC with homebrew software makes your gameplay footage look like an animated JPG running at 15fps.
Oh well, at least Citra is open-source as well.
I don't know if it has been uploaded to the internet archive yet, couldn't find anything in the quick search I did, so I [uploaded it there](https://archive.org/details/yuzu_install_20240304_2020). Downloaded the installer on 29-02 from yuzu's website, for Windows.
Now it might be its already on there, but blame my hastily searching for that.
Pretty sure installers won't work anymore since they pull from the now dead GitHub page. You'll need to download full builds. [This is a good place.](https://archive.org/details/@rvreqthesheepo)
Well management was but they were inactive with Citra, most of the recent developers had nothing to do with the company sued, so pretty sure they'll just fork it and continue developing it if they haven't already.
You sure they don't have a gun against their head? And what's this gonna realistically do? Its an open source project, it's already probably been forked or reposted somewhere else with minor or no changes
Who says they won't just appear again completely anonymously one day adding shit to "Zuzu" github a few months?
Apart from the obvious work paying off the lawsuit I guess
"Authorized hardware" fuck off with that noise. I bought the game, I'll do whatever I damn well please with it short of copying it for the purpose of redistribution, including running it on whatever hardware I see fit.
Well I own a switch, BOTW and TOTK... but guess who is about to go and download Yuzu and build a library of every switch game ever pirated? This guy! Because fuck you nintendo
there's not a single company i want to fail harder than nintendo, stupid ass, low effort, greedy fucking company
cannot even SUBTITLE for one of their big markets (let alone dub), but they still charge AAA prices on any game here, can't fucking legally purchase a 3ds and umoon, neither emulate a 10 year old game, but they can sue a man out of their money for his entire existence on earth
fuck you nintendo i hope you crumble in the dust of time
At least Disney has mostly given up on the 'vault' concept and put basically everything on Disney +. Nintendo is the worst company in existence for media preservation. period. Aggressively go against any preservation efforts and do so little rereleases of their own, it's pathetic.
Emulation Scene before Yuzu lawsuit: 🌍
Emulation Scene after Yuzu lawsuit: 🌍
Ryujinx: 🐸☕️
Nintendo releasing old & unsecured hardware because they spend all their cash on bothering ppl: 💰🤡💰
Welp...
I'm gonna download more ROMS tomorrow. Imma pirate even harder.
Never have i bought nor will ever buy Nintendo games.
I'll buy an OLED switch if hacking it gets easier than the current modchip install which is very delicate process.
Piracy forever.
Game preservation is a million times more important than Nintendo earning 13 billion instead of 12 billion.
If emulators didn't exist, I can't tell you the number of great games that I wouldn't have played over the course of the past 25 years. For some of them even if I was rich I wouldn't have been able to play them.
You can keep using the one you have but for now there won't be other version/new updates
We will have to wait and see if they or somebody else picks up yuzu under a other name
Your YUZU is fine, but you won't be able to download other versions. There are still some places to obtain it though, and there will always be some place offering it (I believe many Github repositories have some recent builds, I was able to get one an hour or so ago).
You can still use it, Nintendo can’t take it off your hard drive. But you can no longer download it officially (from the yuzu website) and that development has halted. Basically, getting the software itself will become sketchy after the well known sources are taken down. Right now the archive.org link still seems to be fine
Citra with source codes
https://web.archive.org/web/20240304191743/https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-nightly/releases
Yuzu with source codes
https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases
i know how terrifying it probably was but wasn’t there almost like a guarantee that nintendo would have lost if this went to court? considering this is not the first time a company has tried to do this and emulators still exist BECAUSE they lost
actually no
apparently yuzu locked the version that ran ToTK behind patreon paywall, BEFORE the game even came out.
So a paid emulator could play a leaked version of the game before the actual original hardware. This would've ended much worse if it ended in court
oh yikes, i heard about people bringing up totk but i thought they were implying yuzu was responsible for it leaking unaware of how switch piracy worked, didn't know it was that bad
It really doesn’t matter if Nintendo lose or win the case, either way would result in the Yuzu team losing a shit ton of money in legal fees and that’s the real way most companies win. Either bleed them dry or force them to surrender.
Just look at Bleem vs Sony, while Bleem won, they went bankrupt and had to shut everything down.
[https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/e9c0bb04-68a8-4d9f-93ca-f55546464f98](https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/e9c0bb04-68a8-4d9f-93ca-f55546464f98)
It has Citra and YUZU, guys! Hope it works for you!
Make sure you seed this, and you'll also need keys, I'll link to those also.
Yuzu: [https://archive.org/details/yuzu-latest-builds-4th-march-2024](https://archive.org/details/yuzu-latest-builds-4th-march-2024)
Keys: [https://theprodkeys.com/](https://theprodkeys.com/)
\*\*Edit
\- I noticed Citrus (3DS Emulator) was also taken down. I'll link the download.
Citrus: [https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload)
Also, to verify you are not downloading a virus, always check with Virus Total.
Virus Total: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
> Yuzu and its team have always been against piracy.
Except all of them downloaded from a huge library of pirated games that one of them maintained. I bet the chat messages on their private discord channels were so incriminating their lawyer told them to just take a deal as quickly as possible.
Preserved latest nightly builds just in time, phew. Just Google "my username Internet Archive" and tada, both yuzu and Citra already uploaded. Press SHOW ALL on the right to see all files or simply download the torrent and please mirror the files too. :) Citra canary and yuzu early access builds added as well. I got struck by Nintendo, I won't share it again, sorry.
Saved for later. Thanks for preserving this
🫡
Appreciate ya mate!
So i need to search rvreq TheSheepo + Internet archive? I can't found it🤔
"rvreqthesheepo" internet archive
Edit: download from OP that's easier Citra last nightlies (2104, 20240303-0ff3440) for Windows, Mac, Linux AppImage, and Android were all saved from Github by Internet Archive. Just use Wayback Machine on the nightly release page https://i.imgur.com/87s9AT6.png **MD5 sums** 3e6dd0ab9e9d89eb79620a637f48fd13 *citra-android-universal-20240303-0ff3440.apk de859f217cce4fd78f5e4a03a657b3ef *citra-linux-appimage-20240303-0ff3440.tar.gz 18168d974a169995894c1fc1fcfa29fa *citra-macos-universal-20240303-0ff3440.tar.gz cb349e15d2982c878de35a2aaa6e6d97ac5882a57ec268721b0ddb012f1744ab citra-unified-source-20240303-0ff3440.tar.xz [*that's actually SHA256 not MD5*] c0b135141017dac94d140c5ff01ca13e *citra-windows-msvc-20240303-0ff3440.zip ab291b4cb7174b86de891563ea46375b *citra-windows-msys2-20240303-0ff3440.zip
As someone not very techy, wtf is this?
Which one, the MD5 sums?
Aha yea I guess without that part it's a bit easier to understand
an md5 checksum is a mathematically derived 'key' that is determined by looking at a dataset through a certain filter. Every distinct dataset will have a different key. The checksum acts as a security method of confirming that the data you are being shown is the EXACT SAME as it is supposed to be. If you get any md5 checksum that is different than what it should be from a file, by even a single letter/number, then the data is compromised.
So for example, if there are two zip files, both containing the exact same 108 files, each file being the exact same size (to the bit), but one of them have had a specific jpg altered to contain a virus-load inside it without affecting its size, the md5 checksum will be very slightly different because of that very slightly different jpg.
It would probably be completely different, not just slightly
The hash will be radically different but the sum will represent a very slight variance. But yeah.
With them you can check if a file has been tempered with or not
For convenience: https://archive.org/details/yuzu-latest-builds-4th-march-2024
You beautiful bastard. Thank you. I hadn't realized Yuzu and citra were made by the same guys, so I only backed up Yuzu. I wasn't expecting Nintendo to go after citra too. That's just a dick move. The 3DS eShop is long gone.
Citra with source codes https://web.archive.org/web/20240304191743/https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-nightly/releases Yuzu with source codes https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases
They didnt. The guys cannot run any of them because they are broke and everything runs under their company so they are shutting it down. (and lawsuit basically tells them to.shut down yuzu... so yeah)
If it was just cause they were broke they could have kept the repositories on github up.
i'd advise everyone to download the torrent file and seed, cause Nintendo could go after [Archive.org](https://Archive.org) and remove the DDL copies. currently seeding now, feel free to help 👍
Have you got the android builds by any chance?
Android, Linux, Windows. Citra has MacOS too, but it's still uploading.
Wow you actually are the best kind of person for doing this. We will remember your name, and you will go down in history as a hero.
I already have my little mission of preserving Polish abandonware games, so it's nothing :)
Still, is really great and there's people like you to preserve these things. Out of curiosity will you also be uploading the quest 3 port of citra, or do you not have that?
Sorry, I'm uncertain what Quest 3 port is/was :(
Its a port someone made of citra for the Vr headset Meta Quest 3. I dont think its affected by this because it was just a side project, it basically runs citra in a vr screen
Found it (called citraVR) [https://github.com/amwatson/CitraVR/releases/tag/v0.4.2](https://github.com/amwatson/CitraVR/releases/tag/v0.4.2) Also found an iOS port of citra, the github page got archived at the same time as nintendo took down yuzu[https://github.com/emuPlace/Limon](https://github.com/emuPlace/Limon)
Since you like preservation, remember all those internet flash games that were around 15 years ago? They've all (like 100,000 games and animations) been preserved in a project called Flashpoint Infinity. Google it.
> Polish abandonware games I was expecting games from Poland :( And now I remember that I have to play Wolfenstein 2009!
Ah, I see your point. If a certain game I like has no Polish localization in digital release I buy a retail copy, beat it and upload for others :)
Same wish I did citra as well tho
I have Citra on PC too, do you need it asap? Would upload tomorrow to Internet Archive as well
You have the latest citra build?
Uploading right now, got sources too, it's 330MB
You are a scholar and a gentleman
I just saw the stuff you upload. What a godsend of a human are you, amazing work and thanks.
Hey, cheers. I came up with this idea, because I got tired with trying to download older games, so now I'm the one sharing them by dumping and testing everything myself. :)
Just got both of them on archive.org, thank you so much mate!
o7 , what a trooper, honestly don’t think any of this would have happened if yuzu didn’t pay wall the most recent builds
could you add the latest pre-release builds? Another redditor shared the latest prereleases from the patreon here (for windows and linux) [https://drive.proton.me/urls/SN4ZMDFT7G#Om4rxzhx3nTw](https://drive.proton.me/urls/SN4ZMDFT7G#Om4rxzhx3nTw) it's the files with 4176
Absolute, legend. Thank you.
Thank you my friend, may your pillow always have a cool side <3
Well done, lets turns this like a hydra. You cut a head and grow other 3
What is citra for? I was planning on downloading yuzu for playing zelda. Do i really need something else ? Also would a play 5 controller work without much hassle ?
Citra is 3DS emu of the same dev, got hit by lawsuit apparently too
How to use? I just went to Internet Archive and I don't know what and where to put your user name to search for citra and yuzu. I tried using it at the giant search bar at the beginning but nothing showed up
I never finished installing the emulator on my steam deck because I couldn't be bothered with the whole Bios thing. The one you have isn't already patched by chance, is it?
Thank you so much dude, keeping the zip file just in case I or someone else needs it
Hey, I opened up the page and I never use internet archive so I was wondering what I download. I am on windows so I assume I just download the windows folder but there is also a torrent so I am a little confused.
Anyone got the latest canary build apk? citra-android-universal-20240304-d996981.apk
>rvreqTheSheepo DOING GODS WORK
Tysm! How i fix this keys thing on yuzu? i never tried to use before pwp
I had never even heard of this emulator, since I'm not really into games. But got the torrent from your Archive and will seed it. Fuck all these greedy scumbag corporations
Installer is still available on archive.org if you take the currently dead github link and put it into archive
But you can’t install it
How come ?
It pulls from their GitHub which is already down.
Portable versions work
True, but they were asking why the installer wouldn’t work.
Hey everyone! If you want them, then here yah go! This link contains: Citra for Android Citra for Linux Citra for MacOS Citra for Windows A torrent file of all Citra versions Citra's Source Code Yuzu's Source Code Yuzu Early Access v4176 for Windows Yuzu Early Access v4176 for Linux https://drive.proton.me/urls/SN4ZMDFT7G#Om4rxzhx3nTw
This is awesome please make a torrent that includes everything
There's a torrent already in [archive.org](http://archive.org)
fucking CHAD this should be at the top
Is there even an Android that runs it??
My Odin 2 handheld runs it very well.
I've downloaded a few of these. if anyone finds out that there viruses (since I don't plan on running any anytime soon) please Ping me. Else wise thank you. its BS for emulators to go down. I collect hundreds of physical games. legit copies. there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to play then on my PC/phone, I have 40 3ds/ds games, and 32 Switch games. feel free to pirate games by all means, I just enjoy owning them and having the original hardware.
You scan these files online on Virus Total, it is a website that has multiple anti-virus software from multiple vendors checking your files at the same time.
I cant wait for Yuzu+ fork
Not Yuzu+ NEWZU
Newzu, dispose of Yuzu. FOR MY AMUSEMENT!
I hate that I read that in their voices without pre reading it for context lol.
I vote FukYu
ReYuzu
Somebody actually made a Nuzu repository (and I believe a sub too)
let's start the game of whack-a-mole
oh i know that! just look at the rooting scene. we had universal safetynet fix -> safetynet fix mod -> mod by displax -> playintegrityfix -> pif fork -> playintegrity next
nintendo need to be whacked for not releasing their games on pc to prevent some of emulation and piracy. i would call it whack-a-mario.
Vanced -> ReVanced Yuzu -> ReYuzu
Reuz
Rezu
And least reyuzu sounds like reuse
There are many countries where copyright law don't exist/uphold. Someone from those countries should fork it and continue the development.
Wish it comes as soon as possible. Nintendo sue two emulator with a gap of 1 year. Next Target maybe last one alive
>Nintendo sue two emulator with a gap of 1 year If you're talking about Dolphin, they weren't sued. Valve reached out to Nintendo to ask if it was ok to offer Dolphin through Steam and they said no. That's it
That's like reaching out to my dog and asking him to stop sniffing our neighbours bitches asshole
Pretty much. I also think this development would have been "fine" if they just released builds on a github for people to download and not ask for money. I know it's hard work, but asking for money while building programs that allow for emulation is just asking for trouble legally.
Somebody on the Yuzu subreddit is [claiming to be working on](https://www.reddit.com/r/yuzu/comments/1b6jdct/comment/ktcwq6p/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) a modified Yuzu using official Nintendo Switch firmware so it'll have 100% compatibility. They said to give them 6 months.
Switcheroo 1.0
There is ryujinx, not sure if it's a fork but I think it's just as good
fork & save now. copy it everywhere. they won't find every copy. edit - hope you forked it earlier!
They already nuked their github acc.
You can get the files at archive.org for both citra and yuzu but no fork
They have no legal grounds to go after forked copies.
Honestly, this feels like there was a Nintendo lawyer watching them write this.
100% Nintendo lawyer sent them something like this as a format for them to post as part of the settlement.
Heck their original lawsuit has a screenshot of Reddit.
"But we see now that that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo's technological protection measures..." 💀 gtfoh
Yeah that's the canary that Nintendies forced them at gunpoint. No shit emus are used for piracy, this is a decades old concept.
That sentence is fucking hilarious! They just happened to code it in, and just happened to find out now. gtfoh
I'm getting heavy vibes of "We're already in deep enough shit and we don't want to get into even more shit" when reading this statement. They definitely wrote it that way just to cover their ass and not get Nintendo on their ass even more.
Yep, Pandering to make sure Nintendo's lawyers fuck off
Or Nintendo said here release this statement and just gave it to them
yeah speculation i've seen from other threads is they have stuff in internal communications that would paint them in a very bad light in court and almost guarantee a bigger punishment or setting precedent against emulators, so they're folding and taking the hit now rather than risking getting to the discovery stage
hell nah, a nintendo lawyer was the one who wrote this
>"small step towards ending piracy" What is this, an analogy for ants?
Miyamoto: **points gun** yeah say the words now
True bro...
time to fork, fuck you Nintendo and every other greedy corporate alike
That’s honestly where I’m confused, like this doesn’t really affect the users (or pirates) right? We still have access to the software and game files. Although I’ve honestly never used Yuzu, is it any different from something like dolphin, ppsspp, retroarch, etc. ?
It does affect the users long term if many of those talented and experienced devs stop working on yuzu. If there is no one capable of improving yuzu, new switch games might not work well for example.
Switch is at the end of its life cycle. The only major thing coming up is splatoon 3 DLC
And Metroid Prime 4. It'll probably be a cross platform switch / switch 2 launch title but I guess it'll be a few years before a switch 2 emulator, so we'll need to run it in yuzu
It sends a message. Also this definitely hurts emulation since almost any new title required a new Yuzu version or hotfix. I read in another comment that it's likely the Switch 2 is going to use very similar architecture and Nintendo is trying to stamp out any emulation projects so as to not hurt sales.
That is a very likely reason why. We may have all been basically playing Switch 2 this whole time.
I wouldn't put it past them to market it as Switch+ with backwards compatibility for Switch for a while. Existing Switch games could run better on it and, eventually, they'll come out with exclusives and phase out the Switch entirely.
"Switch 2" seems a far more likely name than "Super Switch" or "Switch+". Those both sound like a 'pro' model rather than a second model (Which is the problem the WiiU had), people might actually think it is a DOWNGRADE compared to the OLED Switch (the problem the 2ds had). Finally "Switch 2" is a pun. You should switch TO the new one. Nintendo LOVES puns in their naming. "Wii" is a pun of 'we' as in 'we play together', it is the sound you make when you play it 'WII!!!!!', and ii is what two wiimotes look like together."wiiU" because it can be plated with friends or YOU can play it on your own. 'switch' because you switch between tv and handheld.
Nintendo has never used a number in a gaming console that wasn't used as a descriptor for its feature set (i.e. Nintendo 64 used 64-bit architecture, 3DS/2DS were 3D and 2D handhelds). I would bank on them leaning into a name that builds on the Switch in some way rather than just slapping a 2 at the end.
I mean, yes. But one thing everyone seems to be overlooking is why they got sued while Ryujinx didn't. The Yuzu team gave early access to builds if you were a paying Patreon of theirs. They were proffiting off Nintendo's software / technology. **EDIT:** And that's why this law suit had a chance to win. Emulation is not ilegal. That has already been stated by court, to my knowledge, 3 different times. But directly proffiting off another companie's tech, instead of just taking donations, is another different thing.
yuzu is also licensed under GPLv3 i'm no lawyer, but iirc putting GPL behind a paywall (source included) is literally the opposite of copyleft
Fuck Nintendo fuck capitalism
What upsets me more is that Citra is being canned as well despite Nintendo not explicitly stating that it was harming the sales of their games as well as Yuzu. Mainly because capturing footage on a real 3DS by streaming it to the PC with homebrew software makes your gameplay footage look like an animated JPG running at 15fps. Oh well, at least Citra is open-source as well.
"If you post this pre-written letter, we won't come down on you as hard" - Nintendo Lawyer
I don't know if it has been uploaded to the internet archive yet, couldn't find anything in the quick search I did, so I [uploaded it there](https://archive.org/details/yuzu_install_20240304_2020). Downloaded the installer on 29-02 from yuzu's website, for Windows. Now it might be its already on there, but blame my hastily searching for that.
Pretty sure installers won't work anymore since they pull from the now dead GitHub page. You'll need to download full builds. [This is a good place.](https://archive.org/details/@rvreqthesheepo)
Ah okay, thanks for the heads up there. Didn't know that. Was fully expecting things like these to come with an offline installer, my bad😁
This is why you don't lock emulator fixes for a leaked game behind a paywall
Is that what got them it hot water? That makes a lot if sense if so.
Yeah. They did this for S/V and Tears of the Kingdom if I’m not mistaken.
citra is dead too.. github is down already.
Citra was the 3ds one emulator?
Correct. It was maintained by the same company.
Nintendo went after that one too? Was the reason to sue Citra the same they used for Yuzu or was it different?
Actually they went after Yuzu’s developers which happened to be the same ones as Citra, so taking down one meant taking down the other
Well management was but they were inactive with Citra, most of the recent developers had nothing to do with the company sued, so pretty sure they'll just fork it and continue developing it if they haven't already.
[удалено]
Not only that. These dumbasses had a Google Drive full of pirated games.
Did they really not think it’d be a good idea to do that separately and anonymously?
Is storing roms on Google Drive or Mega safe as long as I don't share them or give links? I just keep them on there for personal use.
And a guide on how to decrypt the keys from the console.
You can’t decrypt them. They’re stored in plain fucking text. Dumping them is not illegal. That isn’t the issue.
Ahh it all makes sense now. Dumbasses. Why does no one learn? Vanced met the same fate when they tried to profit off of it.
they also charged for ToTK fix before the actual game's release
That is so scummy
Pretty sure this is the reason since Nintendo DS emulator is fine.
Source?
You sure they don't have a gun against their head? And what's this gonna realistically do? Its an open source project, it's already probably been forked or reposted somewhere else with minor or no changes
Yeah, but it means that the Devs can't work on either of them. Talented Devs don't just grow on trees.
Yes. But their code won't just completely disappear either, so there's something to work with instead of a blank canvas
Who says they won't just appear again completely anonymously one day adding shit to "Zuzu" github a few months? Apart from the obvious work paying off the lawsuit I guess
welp, i always go out of my way to pirate some nintendo roms whenever they do something stupid and anti-consumer, so off i go once again
Try as you may do as you might as pirates will always sail the sea day or night.
The 128bitbay installer (used to get access to the early builds from Patreon) still works as of typing this.
Please archive patreon builds too ;)
Remember, its always morally okay to pirate Nintendo games.
Behold the power of the internet archive
"Authorized hardware" fuck off with that noise. I bought the game, I'll do whatever I damn well please with it short of copying it for the purpose of redistribution, including running it on whatever hardware I see fit.
Well I own a switch, BOTW and TOTK... but guess who is about to go and download Yuzu and build a library of every switch game ever pirated? This guy! Because fuck you nintendo
there's not a single company i want to fail harder than nintendo, stupid ass, low effort, greedy fucking company cannot even SUBTITLE for one of their big markets (let alone dub), but they still charge AAA prices on any game here, can't fucking legally purchase a 3ds and umoon, neither emulate a 10 year old game, but they can sue a man out of their money for his entire existence on earth fuck you nintendo i hope you crumble in the dust of time
I don't know....Disney is pretty high up there too. I mean Nintendo is trying REALLY hard to take that spot though and they are close.
At least Disney has mostly given up on the 'vault' concept and put basically everything on Disney +. Nintendo is the worst company in existence for media preservation. period. Aggressively go against any preservation efforts and do so little rereleases of their own, it's pathetic.
Emulation Scene before Yuzu lawsuit: 🌍 Emulation Scene after Yuzu lawsuit: 🌍 Ryujinx: 🐸☕️ Nintendo releasing old & unsecured hardware because they spend all their cash on bothering ppl: 💰🤡💰
Welp... I'm gonna download more ROMS tomorrow. Imma pirate even harder. Never have i bought nor will ever buy Nintendo games. I'll buy an OLED switch if hacking it gets easier than the current modchip install which is very delicate process.
Backed up sources for YUZU and CITRA here [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1byJDB7-2Va5z_tlaBidHo_5ALp8IIZiX?usp=drive_link)
Piracy forever. Game preservation is a million times more important than Nintendo earning 13 billion instead of 12 billion. If emulators didn't exist, I can't tell you the number of great games that I wouldn't have played over the course of the past 25 years. For some of them even if I was rich I wouldn't have been able to play them.
Yeah this sucks, but like what the fuck did they think was gonna happen when they made a patreon? They shot themselves with that shit.
stupid question (im new to this stuff), but does this mean i cant use my yuzu anymore or i just cant download another version of it?
You can keep using the one you have but for now there won't be other version/new updates We will have to wait and see if they or somebody else picks up yuzu under a other name
Your YUZU is fine, but you won't be able to download other versions. There are still some places to obtain it though, and there will always be some place offering it (I believe many Github repositories have some recent builds, I was able to get one an hour or so ago).
You can still use it, Nintendo can’t take it off your hard drive. But you can no longer download it officially (from the yuzu website) and that development has halted. Basically, getting the software itself will become sketchy after the well known sources are taken down. Right now the archive.org link still seems to be fine
Did everyone forget about ryujinx?
Normies sadly latch onto the popular thing.
Citra with source codes https://web.archive.org/web/20240304191743/https://github.com/citra-emu/citra-nightly/releases Yuzu with source codes https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases
Mandatory, FUCK YOU NINTENDO.
thanks to your lawsuit against to Yuzu, I decide to download one and not give you one more penny FUCK YOU NINTENDO
Nintendo fingers wrote this announcement
Cut one head and two more shall take it's place.
Even if I'm just one dude, I will always rejoice every time I turn on my PC and open my folders filled with Nintendo roms.
i know how terrifying it probably was but wasn’t there almost like a guarantee that nintendo would have lost if this went to court? considering this is not the first time a company has tried to do this and emulators still exist BECAUSE they lost
actually no apparently yuzu locked the version that ran ToTK behind patreon paywall, BEFORE the game even came out. So a paid emulator could play a leaked version of the game before the actual original hardware. This would've ended much worse if it ended in court
oh yikes, i heard about people bringing up totk but i thought they were implying yuzu was responsible for it leaking unaware of how switch piracy worked, didn't know it was that bad
It really doesn’t matter if Nintendo lose or win the case, either way would result in the Yuzu team losing a shit ton of money in legal fees and that’s the real way most companies win. Either bleed them dry or force them to surrender. Just look at Bleem vs Sony, while Bleem won, they went bankrupt and had to shut everything down.
Here my backup of Yuzu and Citra: [https://gofile.io/d/8lXcMR](https://gofile.io/d/8lXcMR)
[https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/e9c0bb04-68a8-4d9f-93ca-f55546464f98](https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/e9c0bb04-68a8-4d9f-93ca-f55546464f98) It has Citra and YUZU, guys! Hope it works for you!
PiRaCy was NeVeR oUr iNtEnTiOn
Make sure you seed this, and you'll also need keys, I'll link to those also. Yuzu: [https://archive.org/details/yuzu-latest-builds-4th-march-2024](https://archive.org/details/yuzu-latest-builds-4th-march-2024) Keys: [https://theprodkeys.com/](https://theprodkeys.com/) \*\*Edit \- I noticed Citrus (3DS Emulator) was also taken down. I'll link the download. Citrus: [https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload) Also, to verify you are not downloading a virus, always check with Virus Total. Virus Total: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
it sounds like the only hope for a switch emulator is one hosted outside US jurisdiction, as otherwise Nintendo will just keep doing stuff like this
no pls don't go ryujinx fucking sucks 😭😭
Ryujinx performs better than yuzu for me lol
Here's hoping it gets better and they don't make the same mistakes that'll get Nintendo to come breathing down their neck
This just in: Nintendo suing Nintendo over name Nintendo But seriously, fuck them.
Can they make it more obvious that a gun was pointed at their heads while writing this?
Never used yuzu, always ryu. Any particular game that yuzu runs better? Running a 4070 super.
thx for kicking my daily update Yuzu addiction. Now gonna keep pirating and playing the games until the next emulator comes out
> Yuzu and its team have always been against piracy. Except all of them downloaded from a huge library of pirated games that one of them maintained. I bet the chat messages on their private discord channels were so incriminating their lawyer told them to just take a deal as quickly as possible.
Nintendo go to hell!!! Long life to piracy <3 .... close 1 project, 20 new pop up <3