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Apple pulls a Game Boy emulator for App Store violations, but says game emulators are allowed

April 15, 2024 No Comments Technology , , , , , , , , ,

Apple has removed iGBA, a Game Boy emulator app for the iPhone, after approving its launch over the weekend. The app was among the first to capitalize on Apple’s newly relaxed rules around retro game emulators, a move the tech giant made after EU regulators forced Apple to open up to App Store competitors, like [...]read moreApple pulls a Game Boy emulator for App Store violations, but says game emulators are allowed

Discord Takes Out Nintendo Switch Emulator Devs And Servers

April 12, 2024 No Comments Gaming , , , , , ,

      Image: Nintendo / Marvel / Yuzu     The battle against Nintendo Switch emulation isn’t over yet. The Mario maker got the prominent emulation software Yuzu to cave in, shut down, and pay out on March 4, and now the popular chat platform Discord is reportedly nuking the accounts and servers belonging [...]read moreDiscord Takes Out Nintendo Switch Emulator Devs And Servers

Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

April 12, 2024 No Comments Technology , , , , , , ,

Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and has completely disabled their lead developers’ accounts — and the company isn’t answering our questions about why it went that far. Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo sued out of existence on [...]read moreDiscord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

GitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu

March 22, 2024 No Comments Technology , , , , , , , ,

“GitLab received a DMCA takedown notice from a representative of the rightsholder and followed our standard process outlined here,” spokesperson Kristen Butler tells The Verge. Suyu was a fork of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo successfully sued, but this isn’t about Nintendo now having the rights to Yuzu’s code — or maybe even Nintendo at all? [...]read moreGitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu

Nintendo Suing Creators Of Switch Emulator, Says Tears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times Pre-Launch

February 28, 2024 No Comments Gaming , , , , , , , , , ,

The creator of popular Switch emulator Yuzu is the target of Nintendo’s latest anti-piracy lawsuit, with the gaming giant claiming in its suit that “there is no lawful way to use Yuzu to play Nintendo Switch games.” The lawsuit, picked up by Game File’s Stephen Totilo, is seeking “equitable relief and damages” from Yuzu creator [...]read moreNintendo Suing Creators Of Switch Emulator, Says Tears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times Pre-Launch

Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’

February 28, 2024 No Comments Technology , , , , , , , ,

If you’ve ever seen a Steam Deck playing a Legend of Zelda game, chances are you were seeing the Yuzu emulator at work. Now, Nintendo has sued the developers of Yuzu in US federal court, with the intent of squashing Yuzu for good. In the lawsuit, spotted by Stephen Totilo, Nintendo alleges that Yuzu violates [...]read moreNintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’

Google Engineers Hacked The PlayStation Portal And Turned It Into A PSP Emulator

February 20, 2024 No Comments Gaming , , , , , , ,

Sony’s PlayStation Portal handheld is designed to stream games from your PS5, but that hasn’t stopped Google engineers from hacking the device to run emulated PSP games. Google security engineer Calle Svensson and cloud vulnerability researcher Andy Nguyen showed off some of their work on X/Twitter, revealing a PlayStation Portal running the PSP version of [...]read moreGoogle Engineers Hacked The PlayStation Portal And Turned It Into A PSP Emulator