During a legal battle with Palworld, Nintendo attacked and completely destroyed an open source emulator

Gaming News During a legal battle with Palworld, Nintendo attacked and completely destroyed an open source emulator

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Nintendo is on the hunt

Seven years after the release of its revolutionary console, Nintendo is probably running out of patience for anything related to copyright infringement and intellectual property infringement. Barely a few weeks after filing a complaint against it Pair of bagsthe creators of Palworldfor the use of patents that belong to The Pokemon Company (specifically Pokémon and Poké Ball designs), the Japanese publisher has struck again, and this time it’s an open source emulator that has paid the price.

Last March, Nintendo had attacked Yuzu et CitraEmulators that allow you to play games Nintendo Switch et Nintendo 3DS from a computer, but above all to hack them. After filing a complaint, the developers relented and agreed to pay compensation 2,400,000 million dollars to Nintendo to transfer their domain names to the publisher, and to stop all activities related to Yuzu and Citra. Since then, emulators have been quite discreet on the internet, but Yuzu’s rival has still held out… until now.

The last emulator is no longer available

A few days earlier, Ryujinx ceased to exist. This emulator, very popular among gamers, was the direct competitor of Yuzuand it was to him that Yuzu users turned after the closure. But it’s in a message discord that one of the developers of the program announced its sudden end Ryujinx. Accordingly ripinperierialso moderator of the Ryujinx Discord, Nintendo would have managed to make contact gdkchanthe inventor of the emulator, and the two parties have reportedly agreed to cease all related activities Ryujinx.

Yesterday gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered a deal to stop work on the project and remove the organization and all related elements it controls. While we wait to hear if he accepts this deal, the organization has been removed, so I don’t think it’s anybody’s guess what happens next. Instead of leaving you hanging, I decided to write this short message to close the debate.

These words are mine. I don’t want to speak for others here, so keep that in mind as you read.

Thank you to everyone who contributed code, documentation, or crash reports to the project. Many thanks to everyone who accompanied us throughout the entire development. I was able to learn a lot of really interesting things about the games I love, enjoy them in better quality and in unique circumstances, and I’m sure you all had equally special experiences. My own thanks go to our facilitation team who overcame difficult circumstances and always found a way to keep smiling.

It is difficult to know the exact nature of the agreement between Nintendo and gdkchanbut it is very likely that the creator of Ryujinx accepted Nintendo’s terms to avoid having to pay a fortune after filing a complaint, as was the case with the developers Yuzu. It’s also possible that this situation has nothing to do with piracy and is simply a reaction from Nintendo to the performance of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom To Ryujinxwhich runs much better on an emulator than on the Nintendo console. Anyway, Ryujinx joined Yuzu in the emulator graveyard, but that doesn’t mean its developers won’t find a way to come back one way or another.