Nintendo and the people behind gaming emulator Yuzu have agreed to settle a lawsuit after a district court over charges that the software allowed people illegal download tears of kingdom More than a million times.
On February 26, Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island against Tropic Haze, the company behind the game emulator Yuzu, calling it “illegal [circumventing]” Protection Measures for the Handheld Console Hybrid. In it, Nintendo claimed that Tropic Haze profited “substantially from illegally obtained products.” [copies]” of Switch games, including the smash hit 2022 RPG The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.now at new legal documents Viewers my city On March 4, the two entities, Nintendo and Tropic Haze, appeared to have resolved the short-lived dispute.
According to the documents, Tropic Haze must pay Nintendo $2.4 million. The developer must also stop offering Yuzu, hand over the emulator’s website and any “modified Nintendo Switch consoles” to Nintendo, and never try anything similar again.
“This permanent injunction constitutes a binding court order and any breach of this order by the defendants or their members will subject them to the full range of the contempt powers of this Court, including punitive, coercive and monetary sanctions,” the filing reads. Sanctions.” It still needs a judge’s approval, but if all goes well, it would effectively mean the end of tropical smog and grapefruit as we know it.team So much said in a Twitter post March 4 after the settlement:
We are writing today to inform you that support for Citra from Yuzu and Yuzu is ending, effective immediately. Yuzi and his team have always been against piracy. We start these projects in good faith out of a passion for Nintendo, its consoles and games, and with no intention of causing harm. But we are now seeing widespread piracy as our project circumvents Nintendo’s technical protections, allowing users to play the game outside of authorized hardware. In particular, we are deeply disappointed when users use our software to leak game content before the game is released and disrupt the experience for legitimate buyers and fans. We have decided that we cannot continue to allow this to happen. Piracy was never our intention and we believe piracy in video games and video game consoles should end. Starting today, we will be shutting down our code repository, stopping our Patreon account and Discord server, and soon shutting down our website. We hope our actions can be a small step towards stopping the piracy of all creators’ works. Thank you for your support over the years and understanding of our decision.
Nintendo told my city In the email “Contact [Entertainment Software Association] Let’s discuss this industry issue. ” my city ESA and Tropic Haze have been contacted for comment.
This is a huge blow to game emulation, especially digital storefronts such as 3DS and Wii U eShop— Close-up and Classic games are getting harder to find.How can people more easily access games as we enter An increasingly digital future where is the game no longer printed On a physical disc?