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hecifatotoday at 12:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

It being a Switch emulator certainly didn't help. However, the primary reason Nintendo went after Yuzu was that Yuzu devs were openly accepting payment for special updates to run Tears of the Kingdom. TOTK was, at the time, only available because of a leak and had not officially released.


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KHRZtoday at 6:10 PM

They also shut down Ryujinx at the same time by simply pressurimg the creator. So it was just an excuse they used.

ls612today at 4:53 PM

This is misinformation spread by the lawsuit. It was a 3rd party fork that added the code to make TOTK work before release (GPL software and all that). And the payments were orthogonal to Nintendo’s claims that the emulator was illegal, only a part of them saying how much damages they were owed.