Just last week, on Tuesday, February 26th, 2024, news broke out about the Yuzu emulator team being sued by none other than Nintendo themselves, with Nintendo claiming that the emulator apparently allowed users to play certain games early (due to street dates being broken) and also allowing...
I’m sure something else will eventually come along. The only way to stop emulators from existing is to not have a system at all. I.e., if Nintendo were to stop making video game hardware, then there would be no new emulators except for ones developed for previous/existing hardware.
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It probably will soon. They have a Patreon and also use
prod.keys
to decrypt games, and now Nintendo knows they can succeed on forcing settlements over this.Their problem is - as always with this - the fact that they accept money for it. Granted in Ryujinx’s case Nintendo has a far far far bigger barrier to climb as they weren’t idiots who created a whole bloody LLC for it, which trivially proved commercial interest.
Ryujinx devs are probably sweating right now. Might want to grab the latest version in case it goes away soon.
Ryujinx still exists…though probably not for long.