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I imagine Ryunjinx is next

probably not, as they are not selling the emulator for profit.

If Nintendo were against ALL types of emulation they could (and would) have gone against all the other emulators that still exist. But they're mostly focused on shutting down for-profit emulators, so that's why they targeted yuzu.

Nintendo does oppose all types of emulation that isn't their own. Most of them are just too hard to intimidate with legal threats.

May I point you to:

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-defends-dolphin-lawsuit-sa...

  Nintendo Defends Legal Action Against Dolphin, Says Emulators "Stifle Innovation"

and my favorite: "While we recognize the passion that players have for classic games, supporting emulation also supports the illegal piracy of our products. Wherever possible, Nintendo and its licensees attempt to find ways to bring legitimate classics to current systems (via Virtual Console titles, for example)."

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

It’s wild that they can say that with a straight face.

> supporting emulation also supports the illegal piracy of our products

So does the original Switch which is trivial to hack and dump games from.

What difference are you seeing between Yuzu's patreon and Ryujinx's patreon?

They simply share progress reports there. Yuzu sold early access IIRC

It's true Yuzu did early access builds for patreons yes.

Not just for Patreon supporters—they had nightly builds available on GitHub.

They instructed Patreons to make use of an "early access key" to access EA builds.

Of course people shared them publicly, are you thinking of one of the unaffiliated github accounts that reposted them?

I think it may have mainly been the Patreon that killed Yuzu

And having a business entity in the USA as part of that.

USA is built entirely on litigation. Lawyers all the way down.

That's part of the reason why it costs millions of dollars to build half a mile of light rail and such.

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