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Citra Emulator is being shut down

Fermbiz

Gold Member
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graywolf323

Member
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.
yep, seriously everyone who was saying Yuzu was special because it was “current hardware” how do you explain why Nintendo took out Citra while they were at it? 🙄
 

Hudo

Member
Citra is not being shut down, its open source, citra and yuzu have the same devs, Nintendo settlement requires them stop all emulation development, wish they would fought in the courts with help of the community, but it’s their choice end of the day.
This. That shit is already out there and forked to hell and back. It might take a while again for others to get to grip with the code. But this is literally a train that cannot be stopped anymore.

Nintendo are acting far too late.
 

ResurrectedContrarian

Suffers with mild autism
yep, seriously everyone who was saying Yuzu was special because it was “current hardware” how do you explain why Nintendo took out Citra while they were at it? 🙄
They basically took down Yuzu devs, and committed them to exiting the emulation scene as part of the settlement.

Yuzu devs worked on Citra originally (*although to be honest, they were basically inactive for years on it, and Citra is maintained mainly by community effort now) and still had a presence on it, so naturally they had to cease all connection with that as well.

But Citra lives in on a ton of forks across Github, no apparent action against any of them--just a total removal of Yuzu guys from the scene.

And again.... Nintendo hasn't taken action against any of the other devs out there who aren't pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in Patreon funds fueled by current-gen piracy. They didn't even bother Dolphin emulator a bit except to say: no, you can't put it on Steam. Which is reasonable. Putting emulators on storefronts like Google Play (Yuzu idiots) is asking for heat to rain down on the community.
 
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JordiENP

Member
Citra is not being shut down, its open source, citra and yuzu have the same devs, Nintendo settlement requires them stop all emulation development, wish they would fought in the courts with help of the community, but it’s their choice end of the day.
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JordiENP

Member
Not sure what this screenshot adds.

One again, it says specifically "Yuzu's support of Citra" will end, because the main issue is that Yuzu devs cannot be involved in any emulation scene now. Citra itself has not been directly targeted by any legal action by Nintendo, nor has Dolphin (*except to stay off Steam), etc.
go to the citra website, it's down. Yuzu supports, because yuzu owns Citra.
 

ResurrectedContrarian

Suffers with mild autism
go to the citra website, it's down. Yuzu supports, because yuzu owns Citra.
Their hosting and mirrors of the code, websites, etc is all shut down, yes.

But Citra will live on in open-source development as it has for years, in other forks which are readily available across Github. Even on the main Citra repo, the Yuzu guys barely contributed at all the past several years, it's all community effort now.
 

Puscifer

Member
Don’t fuckin leak games on an emulator early guys, jesus

Hopefully will continue elsewhere and ryujinx stays ok. Playing Switch games on my PC at 1440p+ and 60 fps is really nice.

And yes, I do own physical copies of every game I play via emulation.
How is it any different than games leaking on original hardware? I use to play leaks on hacked xboxes 1-2 weeks early ALL the time, there's hacked switches out there, there's new cartridges that are basically R4 for switch on original hardware and if switch 2 is going to continue it'll pretty much never stop at this point
 

tkscz

Member
The Switch successor will be out in a year. To quote Topher Topher , "Too little, too late." Nintendo should have done this half a decade ago.
Technically they didn't take down Citra, Tropical Haze, the people who created it and Yuzu, are doing this on their own. Nowhere in the lawsuit does it say Citra.

Like I said in the Yuzu thread, this was most likely done because of the mass pirating of TotK that happened a week before it had released. Tropical Haze got it up and running on Yuzu before the official release of the game. That was less than a year ago.
 

ReyBrujo

Member
Other people will just continue their work.
You need talented people for that. There aren't that many. At least not that many interested in working with that code knowing Nintendo already said No.

Tropical Haze, the people who created it and Yuzu, are doing this on their own.
The fact that they accepted doing that in the injunction means it was agreed upon, aka Nintendo asked them to shut it down as well.
 
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SF Kosmo

Al Jazeera Special Reporter
It's open source, so at least all that knowledge doesn't just disappear. Hopefully someone a little more careful picks up the mantle at some point :/
 

CrustyBritches

Gold Member
Why wouldn't it? The main site for Citra is down. This is why its extra painful because Citra VR had so much potential.

Sorry for the double post.
It's being handled by *edit* Amanda Watson along with Team Beef(6dof mod), so Tropic Haze might have agreed to cease support and distribution of Yuzu and Citra, but they might continue forward with the project since it's more a port and a mod of the emulator than something they directly developed. I don't believe Nintendo was even targeting Citra, it seemed to be Yuzu-specific.
 
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SenkiDala

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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.



via The Verge
"We've always been again piracy but we delivered a software that the sole purpose is to play illegally downloaded / ripped games (yes ripping the games you own is still illegal) and we made millions $ with premium Yuzu paid version but it was to play homebrews pfff"... Seriously those guys.
 

SiahWester

Member
It's being handled by *edit* Amanda Watson along with Team Beef(6dof mod), so Tropic Haze might have agreed to cease support and distribution of Yuzu and Citra, but they might continue forward with the project since it's more a port and a mod of the emulator than something they directly developed. I don't believe Nintendo was even targeting Citra, it seemed to be Yuzu-specific.

I guess there's a small chance that continues on, but I really doubt Amanda Watson and Team Beef want a target on their back. Hopefully it doesn't intimidate them. Maybe they can just rename it to something else.
 

Pejo

Gold Member
The FUD this lawsuit created is a lot more harmful to the emulator scene than development of Yuzu being shut down.

I really can't understand Nintendo fans that are cheering on Emulation being shut down though. I know in my heart it's a fanboy thing but it just seems so crazy to me that it's hard to properly understand.
 

bigdad2007

Member
People need to stop pretending like Yuzu is like every other emulator. People were more or less bragging about how they were “owning” greedy Nintendo by stealing all their games and playing them in HD on their PC.

There is nothing worse then hypocritical fake socialism where more or less the rules of society apply to everyone except for them, because they are the main character. It was always stupid to develop a switch emulator while the switch was out. And doubly considering Nintendo likely will use at least some of the hardware to let there be BC on switch 2.

Citra just got hit by this just because it was hosted and developed by the same team.

I love emulation, but I have serious contempt for people who feel entitled to pirate games that are currently for sale.
 
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