These days are being somewhat turbulent in the video game industry. And it seems that emulators are back in the spotlight. We recently informed you about the controversy over the closure of the Switch emulator, Yuzu. This closure resulted from an accusation by Nintendo. That was resolved before going through a court case.
After the agreement with Nintendo that involved a payment of 2.4 million of dollars, Yuzu It permanently closed the service it offered. One that seems to continue with a new emulator, called “Suyu” and which recently received a DMCA takedown notice.
Yuzu’s successor Switch emulator, Suyu, at the center of controversy
This notice was expected to come from the Nintendo, but after the latest updates we are no longer so sure that this notice was produced by the Japanese company. GitLab has announced that it has now removed all traces of the new Nintendo Switch emulatoralthough it seems that the situation has taken a new turn.
It turns out that we have two options on the table:
- The DMCA notice did come from Nintendo itself, although this remains to be confirmed.
- That the writing of the statement was made by an imposter posing as the Big N (it seems that this is the option that is gaining the most strength recently).
- Furthermore, the development of this emulator would continue to be active, in a repository hosted on the personal servers of the individuals behind “Suyu”.
- The development GIT branch would have been moved to a private server.
- In gitlab they would keep releasing the code for the builds
Therefore we cannot affirm that this DMCA has been released by Nintendo.
So the DMCA would be false, and Suyu would relaunch its repositories again, although this time hosted on another server if GitLab is not willing to give in to this problem. Although we know that Nintendo was looking for anti-piracy personnel, it seems that this case would not be directly related to a notice of DMCA by the company.
From iGamesNews we are categorically against the piracy and we will update you on this as soon as we have more information about the resolution of this dispute.