The copyright infringement filing, from Nintendo of America, states that the Yuzu tool (from developer Tropic Haze LLC) illegally circumvents the software encryption and copyright protection systems of Nintendo Switch titles, and thus facilitates piracy and infringes copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Nintendo alleges that Tropic Haze's free Yuzu emulator tool unlawfully allows pirated Switch games to be played on PCs and other devices, bypassing Nintendo's protection measures.

The official Yuzu website suggests that the tool is to be used with software you yourself own: "You are legally required to dump your games from your Nintendo Switch" — but it's common knowledge, that this is not how these tools are primarily used.

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[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fuck Nintendo

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm very uninformed here, haven't gamed in a few years. But I've got a question- is yuzu software that is run on a rooted Switch device, or similar like a steam deck? Or do you run it on a computer? Or perhaps, it's all of the above.

Anyway, thanks in advance if someone could give me a high level overview

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yuzu, to my knowledge, is PC only.

To get the information you need to use it, you'll either download it illegally or hack a switch (legally?) To get encryption keys and dump a copy of your game.

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

PC only implies it's a windows program, yuzu runs on any x86_64 and ARMv8a or newer device.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard about the keys and the other website that serves them, seems an extremely important detail. I imagine the game dumps/copies are available as disk images of some sort online?

Thanks a lot for the info, skankhunt42!

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

.xci files are physical switch game images and .nsp files are updates or games from the eShop. Everything is online somewhere.

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