Nintendo accuses Yuzu of pirating copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom early
How Nintendo killed the open source emulator Yuzu
Nintendo is suing the makers of Yuzu, an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator, according to a lawsuit filed in Rhode Island court on Monday. Game File reporter Stephen Totilo first reported the lawsuit.
The 41-page lawsuit was filed against Tropic Haze, the company that makes Yuzu. (Nintendo also specifically references a person called Bunnei, who leads the development of Yuzu.) Yuzu is a free emulator that was released in 2018 months after the Nintendo Switch was originally launched. The same people who made Citra, a Nintendo 3DS emulator, made this one. Basically, it is a software that allows people to play Nintendo Switch games on Windows PC, Linux and Android devices. (It also runs on Steam Deck, which Valve showed — then deleted — in a Steam Deck video.) Emulators aren't necessarily illegal, but pirated games to play on them are. But Nintendo said in its lawsuit that there is no legal way to use Yuzu.
Nintendo claimed that Yuzu runs codes that "defy" Nintendo's security measures, including decryption using "an illegally obtained copy of prod.keys."
