Nintendo is known for its tough approach when it comes to protecting its trademark rights. The last victim of this policy was the Yuzu emulator for Switch games, which ultimately had to be discontinued. Developer Tropical Haze paid Nintendo $2.4 million for trademark infringement.
The stumbling block was that Yuzu made it possible to bypass Nintendo’s technical copy protection. Nintendo claims that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was illegally downloaded over a million times in the week and a half be fore its release. A huge financial loss for the Japanese company that would not have happened without Yuzu.
Now Davide Berra, developer of the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator Pizza Emulator, has spoken out and is removing his app from the Google Play Store. Although he didn’t mention the Yuzu case at all in his statement on Discord, it certainly stands to reason that Berra wants to protect himself from an impending lawsuit from Nintendo.
Berra officially writes that his family is more important to him than the app and that family is therefore his priority. He would also like to thank you for your support and feedback over the last seven years.
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As a result of the original lawsuit, the switch emulator Yuzu, the emulator they supported for the Nintendo 3DS Citra and now Pizza Emulator have been taken off the internet. It remains to be seen whether other emulators will follow this trend and give up.
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