My hot take on the yuzu situation: many obvious dumb mistakes were made.
When we developed Connectix VGS back in the day, we went in knowing the risks of emulating a still-active console. We went out of our way to try and make it as legit as possible, adding logic to try and detect copied disks, attempting to get a proper license from Sony, etc.
But when we did release, the thing that become most apparent was that despite all our efforts, the #1 reason people wanted it was for piracy. In fact, VGS itself was pirated waaaay more than it was sold. The people who really wanted it were by and large pirates, and they were happy to pirate both us and the games.
At that point it become crystal clear to me that there was really no way to write an emulator for a current-generation console without inviting mass piracy. In fact ever since then it's been my firm belief that emulating current-gen anything is a fool's errand and should be avoided unless you're looking for trouble.
The fact that yuzu was pulling in $30k+/month from donations and creating an Android version was just fuel for the fire. Add to that Nintendo's well-known litigious nature regarding emulation and the whole TOTK foolishness, and I honestly can't believe it took this long for them to be shut down.
I'm just glad they didn't go to court and lose badly.
Aaron Giles /
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