🚨Update... Yuzu is done. Nintendo won. Repo, patreon, website, all gone.

if buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing.

Nintendo really shot themselves in the foot with this one. Yuzu is getting all this free publicity now!

Nintendo suing Yuzu is just like suing VLC software for pirating movies 😂😂💀

Yuzu being open sourced is just going to cause a hydra type situation and this is only generating more good press for emulators

Love how this was basically a tutorial complete with specific URLs.

Meanwhile, Valve with their Steam Deck being like "just do whatever you want with it, it's yours". Knowing well, that people having fun with experimenting with it, will actually create positive word-of-mouth marketing for them.

This feels like the adblock situation back last year, UKposts essentially gave adblock free advertising and now more people have been using it ever since. Plus adblock got better in the end

Because of this move, I just redownloaded all of the Nintendo emulators and all ROMs just in case.

..just defaulted on his first payment. Lost my shit. Love that guy.

People seem to misunderstand the situation. Nintendo didn't attack Yuzu because it can play Switch games. Nintendo attacked Yuzu because they locked behind a paywall features and bugfixes for games **not released** at the time, mainly The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Yes, Yuzu is open-source, but Yuzu Early-Access isn't. Some features become public after a few days or weeks, but this precisely means it's **not** public and open-source. This early access version of Yuzu is by definition a paid version of Yuzu, sold for profit. This alone justifies Nintendo for attacking it (is it moral or not, that's not the question, this gives them the **rights** to attack since they're **selling** an emulator). But on top of that, this early access versions added patches and bug fixes for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom **before** its release, only for Patreon. How could they test and bugfix a game not released? Yes. Piracy. This is proof that the Yuzu team, even if it's a single member, used piracy to develop Yuzu at one point. That is more than enough for Nintendo to attack them. It's also the reason Ryujinx didn't get attacked by Nintendo. They're cleaner than Yuzu in this regard. I love emulation. I'm a defender of emulation and game preservation. And I hate Nintendo for their anti-consumer policies. But this time, Yuzu just messed up. Even within the open-source emulation scene, Yuzu wasn't really loved by everyone for the reasons I mentioned earlier. Pineapple, a **pirated** version of Yuzu Early-Access (how do you pirate an open-source project? spoiler: it's not open-source) was made by an ex-Yuzu developer who didn't like the direction Yuzu was going. I don't want to go in the drama or pick a side, but Yuzu isn't as clean as you make it sound. Still, it was an amazing emulator. The Switch will soon meet its end of life and having a fully functional emulator puts my mind at peace knowing my games aren't gone once my system breaks. It's a real shame it is now gone. Thankfully competition existed almost since day one with Ryujinx. People always asked "why do you need two emulators?" and now you have your answer. Ryujinx is sometimes behind Yuzu in terms of performance but it's still an amazing software which **won't** get shut down in the near future, unless they make a terrible mistake. There are also Switch emulators for Android like Strato which are in development and show promising results. Citra being gone as well (note: this is **not** Nintendo's doing, it's Tropic Haze LLC (the devs) shutting down Citra in the process) is the real bummer there. The 3DS is defunct and playing via emulation is better than playing on real hardware. There are other 3DS emulators in development but since Citra was so good they were all just hobbyist projects which aren't vert fleshed out, so for now 3DS emulation took a harder hit than Switch emulation, while being the most important right now (the Switch is still an active system). Love or hate Nintendo, love or hate Yuzu, this situation is really bad but it doesn't kill emulation forever. Nintendo still let Dolphin up even after sending a DMCA notice to Valve for adding it to Steam. Nintendo is aware of everything, of every emulator out there, if they don't take action it's because they know they don't have the rights to do so. Emulation is not dead, it's legal, and will always be, unless you do something illegal like piracy. Just like it is illegal to use leaked documents to develop and emulator, it is illegal to use a pirated game to fix your emulator. Yuzu is therefore illegal since the release date of Tears of the Kingdom. Does it really invalidate all the hard work of the devs to make the emulator? I don't think so, but Nintendo is right to say "yes" and attack them.

My fav theory was that Nintendo learned very bad lesson when they won legal battle on Donkey Kong, when they argued "King Kong imagery is used so broadly in popular culture it's not real IP anymore" and won Since that, they close every hole for the same happening to them

Name a better duo than Nintendo and unfair lawsuits

Nintendo doesn't really have any case here. Yuzu doesn't distribute decryption keys that enable the use of Nintendo Switch software. Those files need to be acquired from a legitimate Nintendo Switch. Unless there's an official build floating around that completely bypasses this requirement, Nintendo doesn't have a leg to stand on.

little addendum: is generally legal, at least in EU, to bypass protection to make "personal backup copy". This include dumping AND bypassing anything that would prevent your copy to function properly. Because of that, hacking console to be able to run personal copy is legit not only personally, but also commercially. Of course guarantee is void :)

man I'm still reeling from Google's groundbreaking new signup page

Streisand Effect here we go

Correction: dolphin was not served a dmca and not from nintendo. Valve got C&D (not dmca, that's not a lawsuit here) because valve reached out to them and they replied with it. THEN valve complied and took dolphin down....and that was the end of it.

This is the very first time I've ever seen Fireship covering anything related to video games. Also, Steam Deck is a legendary gaming system for emulators.

Overbearing companies that abuse their power in America: 😡 Overbearing companies that abuse their power in Japan: 😍

the fun thing about yuzu is that the experience of playing on PC, at 1080p 60fps, with a good controller, is better than playing in the original console with an original controller.

It's insane how a company that can easily win the hearts and minds of gamers with a few strategically planned goodwill gestures is consistently destroying its reputation by being petty, hostile and litigious without achieving anything of value.

In Spain (and i think in all of europe) you have the legal right of make copies for personal use of media you buy, so i legaly can make copies of a nintendo game if i want, in fact, in Spain you pay a little tax because the government and manufacturers already assume you're going to store copyrighted stuff in there

Yuzu looks pretty cool. Thanks for the heads up, Nintendo!

All I see is Yuzu getting free publicity 😂

there was a similar case in the manga/manhwa world recently: a shitty manhwa publisher threatened an open source manga reader called Tachyomi with a lawsuit for piracy. The thing is, Tachyomi doesn't actually host/give access to pirated content, it's just a reader app that allows for user-made extensions and THESE extensions can give access to piracy websites. That's like suing google for showing piracy websites in search results. You would think this is silly and would get nowhere, but you would be wrong, the Tachyomi devs caved in for some reason and abandoned the project (it's still up but won't get any updates), they probably got threatened. A number of similar projects and forks appeared but it sucks that the apps/extensions got fragmented like that.

For anyone wanting updates: Yuzu will pay 2.4 Million to Nintendo to settle the Lawsuit, that was a decision made by both parties (That's what I could find online). Someone said to me that Yuzu added a copy of Tears of the Kingdom, to their Patreon, if that's true, then that would explain why Yuzu went to pay for damages. Being able to make Millions out of an emulation device is crazy though,I won't lie,. Another update: I found out that yuzu had code for description of encrypted data by Nintendo games built in. They also announced an online mode and put that under paywall and then took down under the risk of lawsuit. They also have a stash of leaked games on gdrive they would use to download the games to make the emulator compatible before release meaning they never paid for games. And finally they added an update on yuzu a month before tears of the kingdom that would make it impossible for the emulator to run tears of the kingdom before the release because they were already emulating it before the game was released. Again there's so much wrong it's no wonder Nintendo won this and even destroyed citra too. The team managed to fuck their other emulator just to avoid paying a bigger bill to Nintendo.

I second that, legalpdf be working like crazy.

Thanks for making a tutorial of not what to do to emulate switch. I promise I will use this information to no do anything that Nintendo would be upset and want to sue me.

Sounds like turning an emu into a business makes it certain that Nintendo will come after you.

Thanks for the links, been looking for a reliable page for a long time

Ryujinx: "Damn, glad I'm not that guy"

This video was awesome, you explained what is happening to Yuzu team, plus what nintendo tried with dolphin, game genie... in just 4 minutes.

Ladies and Gentlemen, remember, it is always morally correct to pirate from EA, Nintendo and Adobe

Emulation is such a wonderful thing. Finding games that you played when you were a child, not only console but arcade games that don't exist anymore is something that transports you to that time in your life.

Nintendo: Wait you guys can have 60fps and 4k?

The money Nintendo spent filing this lawsuit could've been spent porting their games to PC instead, which they clearly know we want that since they claim over one million copies of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom were emulated on Yuzu

Oh my, emulation? Who would do such a thing? 😮 Thanks for telling us the websites so we can stay away from it 😊

4:11 I genuinely expected Thor's picture (Piratesoftware).

This is really concisely explained, great job

Man i didn't want to sail the seven seas for Nintendo Games, but this conviced me to start my adventure.

The best way for Nintendo to stop people from pirating their games would be to make them widely available again at low cost and not exclusive to a single hardware platform

you see here,when the whole community goes up against a big name or company, it isnt a conflict no more, but a voice of freedom for the good of many.

What's I always think is funny in pirating cases is when company says "oh people pirated 1 million copies, that means we lost 1 million sales" which implies all of those that pirated would actually buy it.

I used to avoid piracy like the plague, but now I view it not only as acceptable, but as good and the right thing to do. Unless its a tiny company small indie game, never gives these corporations your money.

What a coincidence! I just downloaded yuzu and had arranged myself some firmware and keys to play Pokemon SV just yesterday.

Thank you for making this video :D, I didn't know I had to jailbreak a Nintendo switch to run the emulator

Ironically, never thought I'd heard about this topic on this channel. I'm glad he did. This is way bigger than it seems and it's going to make history in the industry. Emulation never got into such beef before

The humanity! Pirating a switch game! Someone stop them!

I wish there was a site you could upload your switch dumps for backup in case something happened to your main computer.

whenever I see u star something on github I know a video is coming... great stuff

They picked a fight and won a fight quicker than Prime Mike Tyson fight lol

Nintendo needs to be slapped with a HUGE frivolous lawsuit fine!

Reading on Lemmy already shows multiple people have downloaded all related Yuzu source code and Yuzu Early Access source code and reuploaded anonymously on multiple sites. Nintendo might be able to halt Yuzu development but not destroy the software, that will stay around.

There's a frame during which the baby is visible. Since UKposts has frame stepping key commands I think it would be a good idea to fix that by adding a new blur in the youtube video editor

awww man fireship uploaded, its corporate beef, and also about yuzu? this gonna be good

Here’s a comment for the algorithm. Keep up the great work buddy

Yuzu is just an emulator....the roms are something else

This is just like before all the streaming services. Tons of people used to Pirate movies/shows/music. But now that there is Netflix/Hulu/Spotify etc less people pirate that content. Point is, if Nintendo would make their games available on other platforms such as Windows, Mac, and/or Linux then less people would pirate their IPs.

Thanks for the heads up, now I'll have to make sure not to accidentally do any of that.

Can't steal what can't be owned

Most video game companies nowadays produce bloated trash that isn't even worth pirating. Nintendo games however have such great quality that I want to like the company, but their predatory behavior towards their fans just doesn't let me like them. Its stuff like AM2R, the covid melee turnament, the youtube nintendo partner program, their fight against emulation and game preservation and so much more stuff that absolutely destroys their image. I can't help but hate them more than all other video game companies out there.

We have lost 2 beloved friends who died before the war began so others wouldn't have to die. Rest un peace Yuzu and Citra, you made my childhood dreams a reality ❤️ ✨️

"Facilitate" means to make easier, so for them to say it facilitate piracy doesn't make sense - not just because the emulator doesn't provide any way to get games on its own, but also because by the time you open it to play, you have a game - and thus, if you downloaded a game instead of dumping it from a legal copy, the piracy **has already happened.**

Fireship: "They threatened open-source, and I took that personally."

1:30 I find it funny how the NES classic literally has meta data that shows the roms where downloaded off one of said websites. "Thanks for the roms now DIE."

1:10 he literally put the site out there and told us to not go there... This dude is a genius 🤣🤣🤣

Hehe, pirating isn't stealing! Nintendo: Ok, I will pirate $2M and a bunch of assets from the Yuzu devs. NOOOOO, NOT LIKE THAT!

Emulators destroy console sales. That’s why they sold 100M+ Switches and DSes.

I didn't know about yuzu, imma try it thanks !

You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.

Bought the original nintedo for one game (Nobunga's Ambition) and played it with friends for years. Added romance of the three kingdoms, another great Koei game. Never bought another nintendo product or game ever again.

I don't care the slightest who is wrong or right legally, piracy is awesome and fuck nintendo

Remember kids! Pirating Nintendo games IS ALWAYS ETHICAL AND MORAL (really, pirating anything that comes from big corporations is ok)

Thank you, this video was very informative.

Nintendo also once took down my reverse engineering tool because a person used it to decompile one of thier 40 years old game. But luckily I got my tool back

if buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing!

Good to know that there is actually a emulator for the switch! Now that I know, I might try it out!

Great video! Does anyone know where i can find the visual that is used in the outro at 4:22?

If I can't put the game into the console and play it, no wifi, no updates, then I'm "pirating" it.

0:56 - *More You Know:* Nintendo also sued Blockbuster for renting games. They also lost that lawsuit. Not willing to take the L, Nintendo sued Blockbuster again for ... providing copies of their game manuals. Blockbuster decided to settle instead of going to court again since they had the money to pay a 3rd Party to make their own Guides and Manuals back then. So they were bent over before. By Blockbuster of all companies.

now the important question, when will they start taking donations for their legal fees? time for the community to get together for a common cause

between Netflix and Nintendo, I'm Definitely grabbing my warp whistle and heading for the grand line.

Based on their main argument that Yuzu was used to pirate Tears of the Kingdom, it sounds like they actually just need to perform the most intensive digital scraping and search for the few guys who got it a week early and dumped the game files and sue them instead. Not that I want that to happen, because this whole thing is stupid, but it'd make more sense legally than suing Yuzu.

yuzu reminds me of that scene from the movie war lord where he detaches the gun from the helicopter at the last minute and then claims he sells them separately

Not much to worry about Yuzu as it's open source. They can take the original group behind it, but that's just a name. The code itself can't be realistically erased and prohibited from distribution. Another group will just take over it (regardless if it's the same people or not). What is worrying is setting a precedent for emulation, piracy, and companies power

Hilarious how I just told somebody today you could not play switch games on the new handheld, I guess I'll have to update homeboy 🕹

I vividly remember those TOTK days. The reddit community of yuzu(the original that got hammered) was one of the best and most fun community ever existed in reddit.

Yuzu is perfectly in the right here, emulation is legal in the US assuming you dump your own ROMS, yuzu does not bypass any DRM as you must have DRM-free copys of the game from a hacked switch already in order to play them on Yuzu.

Wrong, The crux of Nintendo case is that the Prod.key required to decrypt the games are also encrypted. So to get those you 1st gave to break DMCA, Get the keys, Dump them and add them to Yuzu. Said keys are also Nintendo proprietary code.

2:40 Nice use of Ernie Kovacs!

Im guessing the switch 2 builds on top of the switch which means yuzu can eventually emulate it with some effort, so they are doing a pre emptive strike in hopes of scaring them off/burying them in legal fees.

I use emulators for retro games mainly, but I definitely think it’s muddy waters when you’re treading on their current Gen system and making those games accessible on emulators

After reading the case documents and what people are saying in the Yuzu forums, what Nintendo is claiming is that decrypting Switch software on Yuzu using the official keys violates their copyright, which seems to have legal precedent that might give Nintendo a case. Yes, Yuzu doesn't provide the keys, but using the keys is what Nintendo' s legal team is using to attack Yuzu. I think Nintendo and Yuzu's devs will come an agreement, and Yuzu will have to be modified to run only decrypted ROMs - like how Citra works. You need a modded 3DS do decrypt a 3DS ROM file, and it is harder to find decrypted ROMs nowdays than clean ROMs.

Digital Backups from my hard-copies are completely legal

God forbid I want to play my switch games on hardware that's actually capable of running them.

I’m downloading Yuzu now. Thanks 🙏 Buying isn't owning anymore so even though I got the console, it’s more about the message

never thought i'd see fireship talk about yuzu in my entire life

Although justice will mostly never see it in this way, these hw and fw back doors could be seen as lack of investment of the company in R&D, prior to launching. The only thing it can do is try to protect new titles and update new console versions. What is already in the market is fubar. In other words, it is not easy to foresee the myriad of avenues created by human ingenuity.

I'm so proud of you fireship, you're staying strong and off your AI addiction for 2 videos now!