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Emulation community expresses defiance in wake of Nintendo’s Yuzu lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing, that's not the point. The point is that the developers stop work on it and eventually it stops working. Then the Switch 2 comes out and Switch 2 games cannot be emulated. Nobody thinks that Yuzu, in the current state, will stop being available.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But if it’s open source, can’t someone else fork the project and continue?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

They can. But I guess there is a limited amount of potential Switch emulator developers, and people who have an interest in that are already working on Yuzu. A new team can absolutely happen, and will also get sued until no one even tries anymore. I guess that's the idea on Nintendo's side.