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Yuzu will lives under new name (github.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I hate to be that guy, but it doesn't seem like there's anything to this fork. At least a few links in the README don't work, and the domain for the "email" is actively for sale. The owner of the repository doesn't seem to have any real previous projects on their GitHub account.

I can understand that it's a new fork, but in my mind you'd want to at least make sure the Readme is... passable before you spread the word and make a Patreon for the project.

EDIT: The Patreon link has been removed since I made this comment. I'm still incredibly skeptical of the project though

[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I would say don't make a freaking patreon for it. You know what companies hate even more than people using thier IPs? Getting money while doing it.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

This looks like a straight cash grab. I bet the whoever owns this github won't work on it at all.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah... I looked at the project's subreddit, and I don't expect it to last long. The creator's idea of avoiding Nintendo's legal team boils down to "assert emulation is legal and condemn piracy within our dev team and community."

I don't mean to be a dick, but I don't think the guy knows what he's doing. The only way an actively-maintained fork is going to avoid the same fate is if they either give up before Nintendo cares, or:

Stripped out the code that gave Nintendo's argument validity in the first place;
Did not make money off the project; and
Stayed far the hell away from retail game emulation, focusing on perfect compatibility for homebrew entirely.

Even then, there's a good chance they're screwed either way. The original Yuzu devs agreed to Nintendo's terms of explicitly naming Yuzu as a circumvention tool. Settlements don't serve as precedent, but I suspect it's going to be extremely hard to argue that a minimal derivative of a circumvention tool is not still a circumvention tool when the original creators stated they designed it as such.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yep. We need a separate completely anonymous "pastebin special" program that can decrypt these games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here is another: https://github.com/Crimson-Hawk/suyu

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I'm sure a lot of forks will pop up right around this time. I'll be less skeptical of them once I see actual commits made to the codebase instead of things like just changing the readme