In the middle of a lawsuit with Palworld, Nintendo attacked an open-source emulator and completely destroyed it

Game news In the middle of a lawsuit with Palworld, Nintendo attacked an open-source emulator and completely destroyed it

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Nintendo goes hunting

Seven years after the release of its revolutionary console, Nintendo likely has no patience left for anything related to copyright and intellectual property violations. Barely a few weeks after filing a complaint against Pocket Pairthe creators of Palworldfor the use of patents belonging to The Pokemon Company (notably designs of Pokémon and Poké Balls), the Japanese publisher has struck again, and this time, it is an open-source emulator which has paid the price.

Last March, Nintendo had attacked Yuzu et Citraemulators allowing you to play games Nintendo Switch et Nintendo 3DS from a computer, but above all to hack them. After filing a complaint, the developers folded, agreeing to pay compensation of 2,400,000 million dollars to Nintendo, to transfer their domain names to the publisher, and to cease all activity around Yuzu and Citra. Since then, emulators have been quite discreet on the internet, but Yuzu’s rival has still persisted… until now.

The last of the emulators is no longer

A few days ago, Ryujinx ceased to exist. This emulator, very popular with gamers, was the direct competitor of Yuzuand it was to him that Yuzu users turned after its closure. But it’s in a message on Discord that one of the program’s developers announced the sudden end of Ryujinx. According to ripinperierialso a moderator on the Ryujinx Discord, Nintendo would have managed to contact gdkchanthe creator of the emulator, and the two parties have reportedly agreed to cease all activity related to Ryujinx.

Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered a deal to stop work on the project, remove the organization and all associated elements that it controls. While we wait to hear if he’ll take this deal, the organization has been removed, so I think it’s anyone’s guess what happens next. Rather than leaving you hanging, I decided to write this short message to close the debate.

These words are mine. I don’t want to speak for anyone else here, so remember that as you read.

Thanks to everyone who contributed code, documentation, or crash reports to the project. Thank you all for following us throughout development. I was able to learn a lot of really interesting things about the games I love, enjoy them in better qualities and in unique circumstances, and I’m sure you all had equally special experiences. My own thanks go to our moderation team, who have navigated difficult circumstances and always found a way to keep smiling.

It is difficult to know the exact nature of the agreement between Nintendo and gdkchanbut it is very possible that the creator of Ryujinx accepted Nintendo’s conditions to avoid having to pay a fortune after filing a complaint, as was the case for the developers of Yuzu. It’s also possible that this situation has nothing to do with the piracy, and is simply a reaction by Nintendo to the performance of The Legend of Zelda : Echoes of Wisdom on Ryujinxwhich runs much better on an emulator than on the Nintendo console. At any rate, Ryujinx joined Yuzu in the emulator graveyard, but that doesn’t mean its developers won’t find a way to come back in one way or another.