Citra Emulator is being shut down

Draugoth

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Bunnei confirms Yuzu is shutting down — and it'll hit Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra too.

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Here's the whole memo from Bunnei, who was lead contributor on both emulators. We've also added the full text to our main story if that makes it easier to read. Yuzu's GitHub is already down.

Hello yuz-ers and Citra fans: We write today to inform you that yuzu [sic] and yuzu's support of Citra are being discontinued, effective immediately. yuzu and its team have always been against piracy. We started the projects in good faith, out of passion for Nintendo and its consoles and games, and were not intending to cause harm. But we see now that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo's technological protection measures and allow users to play games outside of authorized hardware, they have led to extensive piracy. In particular, we have been deeply disappointed when users have used our software to leak game content prior to its release and ruin the experience for legitimate purchasers and fans. We have come to the decision that we cannot continue to allow this to occur. Piracy was never our intention, and we believe that piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end. Effective today, we will be pulling our code repositories offline, discontinuing our Patreon accounts and Discord servers, and, soon, shutting down our websites. We hope our actions will be a small step toward ending piracy of all creators' works. Thank you for your years of support and for understanding our decision.

via The Verge
 
Oh seriously, fuck Nintendo for Citra. You aren't even making the 3DS anymore let alone have a market for 2nd hand units to buy stuff digitally nor are you even emulating on the switch like you did WiiU, what's the goal here other than sending a message that's way too late?
 
That's a Jurassic Park-size bunch of crap.
But we see now that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo's technological protection measures and allow users to play games outside of authorized hardware, they have led to extensive piracy

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A sad day for Nintendo emulation, but the quoted is just silly.
 
Emulator leads to piracy, I'm shocked.

(I'm not saying emulators shouldn't exist, I absolutely think they should. But the way the developer is being fake surprised/disappointed that their emulator that can be used for piracy has been used for (probably primarily) piracy is a little humorous.)
 
Emulator leads to piracy, I'm shocked.

(I'm not saying emulators shouldn't exist, I absolutely think they should. But the way the developer is being fake surprised/disappointed that their emulator that can be used for piracy has been used for (probably primarily) piracy is a little humorous.)
Except it's literally too late in terms of Citra
 
Nintendo: How dare you emulate something we don't officially sell or make money on anymore

Users: Then give us the ability to play these games on new hardware?

Nintendo: No
 
Oh, Nintendo killed Yuzu and now Citra is affected too. What a shock. I wasn't expecting this to become an open season for all emulators, who would have foresee this /s.

The corporate shills will be happy at least.
 
I think this is alarmism, unless more information comes out.

The only information released says that Yuzu and "Yuzu's support of Citra" is being terminated.

Citra itself will presumably live on in open-source development.
 
It doesn't appear to me that Nintendo made any fuss over 3DS specifically? If you look at the legal papers in the other thread game they referred to "Nintendo games", not Nintendo Switch games. Having just been backhanded by Nintendo's lawyers over Yuzu I can't imagine I would wait for them to specify additional emulators they want removed for 2.5 million each.

Edit: An attorney is not going to specify that they prohibit a party from distributing emulators only for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo's unnamed future console that they cannot name. They would just prohibit NINTENDO GAMES and be done with it. If I was a party on the receiving end of that settlement and I had a Game Boy emulator I would delete it.
 
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It doesn't appear to me that Nintendo made any fuss over 3DS specifically? If you look at the legal papers in the other thread game they referred to "Nintendo games", not Nintendo Switch games. Having just been backhanded by Nintendo's lawyers over Yuzu I can't imagine I would wait for them to specify additional emulators they want removed for 2.5 million each.
This.

Or, who knows? Maybe some uprezzed / expanded 3DS games are scheduled for Switch 2 and they're preventing possible incoming suits. BTW, one such game (Luigi's Mansion 2) is coming this year.
 
This.

Or, who knows? Maybe some uprezzed / expanded 3DS games are scheduled for Switch 2 and they're preventing possible incoming suits. BTW, one such game (Luigi's Mansion 2) is coming this year.

The Ocarina Of Time Remake definitely shouldn't remain trapped on the 3DS.
 
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This is definitely not the way I thought all of this would go.. Hopefully others will pick things up, maybe re-brand it, and be able to avoid another lawsuit.
 
Folk from other countries will fork Yuzu and keep working on Citra, cut off a head of the hydra etc.

What's Nintendo gonna do if some Russian keeps working on switch emulation?
 
I think this is alarmism, unless more information comes out.

The only information released says that Yuzu and "Yuzu's support of Citra" is being terminated.

Citra itself will presumably live on in open-source development.
Someone will spin up a repo and make a tweak or two but I would be surprised if the level of development that has been happening continues. Usually when the core team quits the soul of the project is gone.
 
The lawsuit settlement didn't mention Citra what-so-ever but being made by the same team, sounds like they did this to not have to payout to Nintendo any further.
 
It already is; others will post a fork somewhere and continue the work.

But they surely won't be as stupid as Yuzu, and won't set up a Patreon.

The Yuzu devs made a huge mistake porting Yuzu to Android and then publishing their emulator on the Google Play store. That put them right in Nintendo's cross hairs.
 
Man can't wait to buy all those 3ds games that Nintendo is about to put on the digital store to perserve their games.

Fuck You Nintendo

2nd hand game prices are ridiculous and/or you can't even buy the game directly from Nintendo.

All those games lost to the void 😭
 
2nd hand game prices are ridiculous and/or you can't even buy the game directly from Nintendo.

All those games lost to the void 😭
I don't even have a PC and tgis news annoys me to hell and back cuz today literally all that happened with this news is hundreds of games are buried and lost now.If Nintendo ACTUALLY gave a shit about the devs or the games they'd put all these games on the EShop for people to buy but nope,I guess they needed to fill their "greedy cunts" quota for the month.
 
This won't end a thing. Other people will just continue their work.

The current version of citra and yuzu are already out there and the number one rule of the Internet is that nothing ever disappears.
 
"Citra : Hey Nintendo, we have decided to shut down Citra !"

"Nintendo : WTF is Citra already ? Let me check..."

"Citra : Er..."

"Yuzu : I told you to shut up !"
 
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Now Nintendo will sell those Roms for 70$
Citra will be still aviable. You can't delete from internet
 
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