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Yuzu & Citra devs fold to Nintendo's demands | Pay $2.3million to settle, take down github, domains, patreon, discord, with immediate effect. (m.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by merthyr1831@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit.

Hopefully their works will live in the saved repos just as ReVanced was able to live on after YouTube shut the original project down.

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[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 77 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Each dev kit is $450. Being able to test on an emulator is free. Sure, you ultimately want to test on hardware, but indie dev teams aren't going to shell out that kind of money for each developer. Who gives a fuck about indie developers though, right?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

~~True, but pretty sure you still need to license the Nintendo SDK to make a game that Nintendo will accept officially, so they'll still get money off you.~~

~~You can use unofficial/open source SDKs for homebrew, though~~

Ah the SDK is free nvm

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Becoming a Nintendo developer and using their SDK is free. It's just the hardware that costs money.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Ahhh gotcha!