Switch emulator Yuzu to cease being a thing, as creator agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and slams piracy

Well, there you go. Tropic Haze, the creator of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against it by Nintendo, officially announcing that it’ll be both bringing an end to its support of the software and pulling a bunch of stuff related to it offline.

Just last week, we learned that the company behind that plumber and the little pink blob was suing Yuzu in US court, with Nintendo alleging in the lawsuit that the emulator was contributing to piracy of its games, with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom being cited as the main example. Now, according to a joint motion filed by the two parties, they’ve agreed to a “judgement in favour of Nintendo”, which’ll see Tropic Haze pay the publisher $2.4 million of “monetary relief”.

The terms of this settlement will also see Yuzu’s developers be barred from both “offering to the public, providing, marketing, advertising, promoting, selling, testing, hosting, cloning, distributing, or otherwise trafficking in Yuzu or any source code or features of Yuzu”, and from doing the same with any “other software or devices that circumvent Nintendo’s technical protection measures”. They’ll also have to turn over any tech used to circumvent Nintendo’s device protection and any modified Switches in their possession.