Discord shuts down Nintendo Switch emulator developers and servers

The fight against Nintendo Switch emulation isn’t over yet. The Mario The manufacturer added the well-known Yuzu emulation software give in, switch off and pay off on March 4, and now popular chat platform Discord is reportedly destroying other Nintendo Switch emulator developers’ accounts and servers.

Accordingly The edge, Discord has shut down everything related to Suyu and Sudachi, two Nintendo Switch emulators that emerged after Nintendo disbanded the Yuzu Gang in early March. This includes both the emulators’ servers on the platform and the accounts linked to developers working on the software. The people behind the technology said via The edge, that they had only received “vague messages” from Discord about how they were sharing content that allegedly infringed IP rights. Kellyn Slone, the company’s director of product communications, said The edge Only the normal processes for DMCA takedown requests will be followed.

“Discord responds to and complies with all legal and valid Digital Millennium Copyright Act requests,” Slone said in a statement The edge. “In this case, there was also a court-ordered injunction to remove these materials, and we have taken action consistent with the court order.”

A Sudachi developer named Jarrod Norwell posted an image of a Discord email on X/Twitter on April 10th. The email said that Norwell’s account was suspended because the company found it to be in “violation.” [Discord’s] Terms of Use or Community Guidelines” for supposedly “[sharing] Content that violates the intellectual property or other rights of others,” Norwell said The edge

that no further information was provided and claimed that Sudachi had done nothing wrong. Actually the emulator developers The edge I spoke to them and said that they are all working hard to change the code to ensure that Nintendo’s eye is not on them. It’s also questionable whether the existence of the Discord servers violates anything in the court order and the extent to which their deletion complies with Discord’s own policies.

My city has reached out to Discord, Nintendo and various related emulator developers for comment.

Nintendo doesn’t seem to be letting up in its tireless pursuit of emulation. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Was illegally downloaded over a million times a full week and a half before its release on May 12, 2023, in a form only playable via such emulation (before selling over 20 million copies the following year). Yes, Nintendo really hates this stuff.