Earlier today, we shared news about Yuzu, the Nintendo Switch emulator, shutting down. But guess what? Two new emulators have popped up since then – Nuzu and Suyu. They’re built on the latest Yuzu version. Cool, right?
If you didn’t know, Yuzu used to be a Nintendo Switch emulator that anyone could use and improve since it was open-source. Now that the emulator has closed, folks can still use its code and make it even better. That is of course under a different name.
From what I know, there aren’t any teams working on them right now. In short, these are forks of the latest Early-Access version of Yuzu. As such, they can run all the games that Yuzu could. They also suffer from the same issues that Yuzu did.
It remains to be seen whether Nintendo will DMCA both of these new Nintendo Switch emulators. I don’t expect them to, but you never know. It will also be interesting to see whether they will attract any new developers to work on them. And what about Ryujinx? Will its development slow down, or will it get boosted now that it’s the only major Nintendo Switch emulator?
Some say that Yuzu’s Patreon was what forced Nintendo to hunt them down. Yuzu made a lot of money via Patreon as it kept its Early Builds behind its Patreon wall. That’s basically what modders do with their beta/early-access mods. So, if that’s the case, the rest of the Nintendo Switch emulators should be safe. After all, Nintendo will soon launch Switch 2 so it makes no sense to hunt down the remaining emulators.
Anyway, you can download Nuzu and Suyu from here and here, respectively.
Stay tuned for more!
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What about citra some good samaritans did something similar?
From what I know, not yet. It should happen soon though.
Nice names, wonder how they came up with them.
they sound like alternate profiles to throw off the greedy corporations like, Nigtendo. They’re already preoccupied with Yuzu rn lol
Lol. Wll, yep, nitendu asked for it. Just remove problematic part of code, and you have brand legal fresh “new” swich emulator
John you should mention this notice on the article
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I already included this in my previous article 😉
Sad day, hopefully dedicated individuals will come to carry the torch. It probably was a multitude of factors that lead to the Lawsuit but man I kinda wish people were less unabashed with their piracy. ToTK being played on an emulator before it was officially out was not a good look at all.
hah, nintendo have their work cut out for them. They’ll be pursuing more legal action now, cause they’re scrubs.
Based!
The Streisand effect at work.
It’s an open-source project. For every take-down that happens, several others will pop-up. Nintendo is the big loser in all of this.
Millions more people now know what Nintendo emulators are thanks to all the media attention. The wider distribution of forked projects causes decentralization, which obfuscates its contributors and distributors, leaving Nintendo with no one to sue.
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This is it, mate.
This is the dumbest thing you have ever written.
These are simple github forks and the only thing Nintendo needs to do to these is send them a cease and desist.
“New Emulators”, dear Lord.
“From what I know, there aren’t any teams working on them right now. In
short, these are forks of the latest Early-Access version of Yuzu. As
such, they can run all the games that Yuzu could. They also suffer from
the same issues that Yuzu did.”
Did you try bothering to read past the headline? It’s pretty clear John knows the score.
And you think Nintendo is going to find out who is sharing these forks that are popping up left and right. A 5-year-old can take this code on Github and distribute it, there is no way to stop this.
The community should have got together and solidified behind a single new version. Now we have a splintered emulation community where we already have several different forks of the same project (I saw at least 4 within the first few hours yesterday, and this is two more that I heard of). I understand why they are doing it, but man, we don’t need 6 different versions of Yuzu. All with a handful of people making changes that aren’t going to line up with other versions. You’ll need 1 version to play this game, 1 version to play that game… it’s already a mess. It would be more beneficial to all get together on a single version and all work together to make it an awesome emulator.
The same people behind Yuzu could just change names and continue with the project. So easy to be anonymous on internet, it’s laughable.
Actually it’s more easy to be delusional on the internet. The guys already have to fork 2 million.
They technically do not. Their LLC does. The LLC was sued, not the individuals.
so nintendo wont see the money… good
Uno Reverse activation https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/640a2ddd328285d99a06217cce45e5dbd355d3ea7dfb40175a9540745a53ae93.gif
To Nintendo Legal Team: You cannot defeat us, even if you take me down, more would come. If you taken them down as well, still more would come. You have lost this battle.
This project DOES NOT suppot piracy, you are required to source your own games and keys, we make no money off this project (mainly so that Nintendon’t sue us lol)
There were only like 4 major releases on switch, totk, mario odyssey/wonder, rdr1 port and none of it was a must play really from a non-nintendont fanboys pov, so don’t care too much about an old system but what’s important to having a good switch1 emu is that the new releases for switch2 will probably be backwards compatible and not feature denuvo on that hw.
Citra is just for 3ds emu and most of those games are better on other emulators anyways or native pc releases available. Don’t remember the last time I used it. The early leaks of switch games were likely disgruntled fanboys and they just made a ton more of those with this move so looks to be early leaks for nintendont releases for a long long time, might even get the denuvo cracks at some point who knows.
Being so open and USA based was a huge mistake by yuzu, but this all fired up the emu community no doubt, it’s not the end of it for sure.
Lol 😂🤣
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