The developer of the Nintendo Swap emulator Yuzu, Tropic Haze, has agreed to pay $2.4m (US {dollars}) in damages to Nintendo and has shut down all improvement and operations after Nintendo’s lawsuit simply final week.
Final week, Nintendo took authorized motion in opposition to the corporate, claiming that the emulator facilitated piracy “at a colossal scale,” amongst different issues. Tropic Haze has agreed to pay Nintendo damages and an extended record of concessions.
Tropic Haze should chorus from “participating in actions associated to providing, advertising and marketing, distributing, or trafficking in Yuzu emulator or any related software program that circumvents Nintendo’s technical safety measures.” It should additionally delete all copies of Yuzu and hand any circumvention bodily instruments it has, together with modified {hardware}, to Nintendo. It’ll even have to provide Nintendo the area title related to the emulator.
— yuzu (@yuzuemu) March 4, 2024
Caught up in that is additionally the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra which was made by the identical developer. Though not a part of the lawsuit, it has been disappeared from the web as properly.