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Nintendo Goes After 8,535 Switch Emulator Backups In Mass Takedown
2.5.2024
Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github. Over 8,000 repositories were removed as the Zelda publisher seemingly...
Discord Is Taking Out Nintendo Switch Emulator Developers And Servers
12.4.2024
The battle against Nintendo Switch emulation isn’t over yet. The Mario maker got the prominent emulation software Yuzu to cave in, shut down, and pay out on March 4, and now the popular chat platform Discord is reportedly nuking the accounts and servers belonging to other Nintendo Switch emulator...
Nintendo Emulator Settles Civil Dispute, Must Pay Millions
4.3.2024
Nintendo and the people behind the game emulator Yuzu have agreed to settle a lawsuit after a short civil dispute in district court over allegations that the software allowed folks to illegally download Tears of the Kingdom over one million times.Read more
Tears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times, Nintendo Claims In Lawsuit
28.2.2024
Nintendo filed a civil lawsuit on February 26 against Yuzu software developer Tropic Haze, claiming that the team’s tech let folks illegally pirate 2023’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom over one million times a full week and a half before it even came out. According to the Mario maker...
Nintendo Switch Piracy Subreddit Banned After Giant Tears Of The Kingdom Leak
16.6.2023
The Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit r/newyuzupiracy managed to fly under the radar for years. However, on June 13, three years after it was originally created, Reddit banned the forum after it blew up in the wake of the massive pre-release leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.Read more
Nintendo Asks Valve To Kick GameCube And Wii Emulator Off Steam, Says It's Protecting Its Creativity And Work
28.5.2023
Valve removed the Steam listing for Dolphin, a popular emulator for the GameCube and Wii, after it received a cease and desist from Nintendo, developers behind the project claim. The company behind Mario and Zelda accuses the emulator of illegally circumventing its protections, and says it’s merely...
Nintendo Seemingly Goes After Switch Emulation Following Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Leak
8.5.2023
When The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom began leaking online, Nintendo initially fought back with standard copyright takedowns of screenshots, video streams, and entire Discord servers hosting links to pirated versions of the game. Now it appears to be ramping up the offensive, going after...
Steam Is Getting A GameCube And Nintendo Wii Emulator
28.3.2023
The makers of Dolphin announced the GameCube and Wii emulator will come to Steam Early Access later this year. It promises to let users play classics like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Super Mario Galaxy with improved graphics and better performance than the original consoles offered....
Oops: Valve Shows Switch Emulator In Steam Deck Vid, Then Deletes It
7.10.2022
There are a lot of reasons why people buy Steam Decks, Valve’s new portable gaming PC. It lets them take beloved Steam games on the go. Others use it to get the most out of Xbox Game Pass on PC. And some people use it to run a Nintendo Switch emulator called Yuzu. Valve admitted as much in a recent...
Metroid Dread Is Already Running Great On Switch Emulators
9.10.2021
Hey, real quick: If you are a Nintendo lawyer or employee, just like... don’t read this. It was a silly mistake. Ignore this blog. You can go now. Okay, everyone else...Read more