The controversial switch emulator Yuzu, which was discontinued just a few days ago and was taken offline with a fine of millions, surprisingly lives on as an open source project under the name Suyu. This is made possible by Yuzu's open source code, which made a fork very easy to implement and thus brought Suyu into being. Nintendo will be less happy about this and, given the history, will probably call their lawyers into action.
Yuzu continues to live in Suyu for now
While the developers of the Switch emulator Yuzu agreed to a payment of $2.4 million with Nintendo and then took their program offline, the team behind Suyu grabbed Yuzu's source code and is running the project under the new name with the same range of functions. In addition to the official website, the developer platform GitLab has also been chosen as its new home.
Source: Suyu Suyu, whose name is no coincidence and translates roughly as “to sue you”, is, like Yuzu, very much in a gray area, which the creators openly admit in an interview with the website Ars Technica. Nevertheless, Suyu wants to be a “non-profit switch emulator,” according to the development team. Nintendo will certainly see things completely differently.
Suyu is Yuzu and Nintendo knows that
If you just look at the numbers that Suyu and the development team behind the project use to advertise (4,000 games and 18,000 members on Discord), you will quickly see that the Yuzu community has switched to Suyu. This will not have gone unnoticed by Nintendo either and so a new confrontation is only a matter of time. Even if the developers obviously “distance themselves from piracy”, their intention is clear.
Suyu is already available as source code
While Suyu is not yet available for download as a finished version (“build”), the project already provides the source code for building the application yourself on GitLab and accompanies this process with correspondingly detailed construction instructions for Windows and macOS.
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A well-visited Discord channel with a huge community has already been set up, but unlike the Yuzu project, no information about pirated copies or instructions for playing copyrighted games will be given here. Nintendo should also look very closely here.
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Those: Suyu via The Register