Nintendo continues crackdown on Switch emulator, GitHub deletes 8,535 Yuzu clone repositories

According to news from this site on May 3, in early March this year, Switch emulator Yuzu succumbed to pressure from Nintendo’s “strongest legal department” and paid the latter $2.4 million in compensation, handed over the domain name, and permanently stopped development.

However, due to the open source nature of Yuzu, "clone" emulators such as Nuzu and Suyu "reborn", and Nintendo is also pursuing it with the goal of completely killing the Switch emulator.

On April 29, GitHub officially issued a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice, as Nintendo pointed out more than 100 companies claiming to provide Switch emulators repository, and Nintendo claimed that all or most of the forks were infringing to the same extent as the parent repository, so GitHub issued a removal notice to 8535 similar repositories on the site.

Nintendo stated that the reported repository provides support for the Yuzu emulator or Code access for Yuzu emulator. The Yuzu emulator is primarily used for playing Switch games. Specifically, Yuzu illegally circumvented Nintendo's technical protection measures and illegally copied Switch games. Switch games are encrypted with proprietary keys (prod.keys), which prevents unauthorized access and copying of copyright-protected games. In the course of its operations, Yuzu must have used unauthorized copies of these keys at or before runtime to decrypt unauthorized copies of Switch games or ROMs without authorization from Nintendo.

This site learned from the DMCA notice that Nintendo requested that "must delete the reported content".

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