The creators of Yuzu also agreed to delete all copies of Yuzu, hand over to Nintendo all physical circumvention tools and modified Nintendo hardware, and all bypass tools used to develop or use Yuzu, which includes “TegraRcmGUI, Hekate, Atmosphère, Lockpick_RCM, NDDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and TegraExplorer”.
In a statement shared on Twitter, originally posted on the Yuzu discord server (via The Verge) by developer bunnei, the team states that they have “always been against piracy” and started the project “in good faith” and were deeply disappointed when users used our software to leak game content before its release and ruin the experience for legitimate customers and fans.”
On Twitter, OatmealDome notes that Citra is already shutting down, and Yuzu appears to have been removed from Github as well. However, the source code is probably still available from people who have already downloaded it.
Whether this will affect other emulators is hard to say at this point, but it’s a clear statement from Nintendo, who have always had a strong stance against emulation.
If we hear any more news on this, we’ll let you know.
[source storage.courtlistener.com, via x.com, bsky.app]
