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I've decided I just need to go for it. Started putting maximum effort into my PC repair business this weekend. If I don't force this to work I'll be stuck at Walmart the rest of my life. 🙄
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A guy around here works out of his home, advertises in classifieds, and yeah, his name comes up in internet searches...I've had him fix hard drive issues, memory leaks, re-install Windows, put in new CD Drives, etc. He is always cheap, always professional, and always busy as hell! If you know your stuff, it could be a really good gig for you.
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That’s a blow to emulation across the board. Gonna be an interesting couple of months coming up.
https://www.shacknews.com/article/138989/yuzu-tropic-haze-nintendo-2-million-settlement-copyright
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If the intent is not piracy, what purpose does a Switch emulator have? Is it meant as a development environment for those where Nintendo doesn't offer one? To play freely downloadable games, if such exist? I agree it is comparing apples and oranges that shutting down a Switch emulator is a blow to the entire emulation experience.
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Had to read through this a couple of times to really grok it, but the following seems particularly relevant:
QuoteYuzu executes code that decrypts Nintendo Switch video games (including component files) immediately before and during runtime using unauthorized copies of Nintendo Switch cryptographic keys.
This makes it sound as though the real issue at stake was Yuzu's use of Nintendo's keys. That was what allowed Nintendo to go after Tropic Haze; emulation itself is still in a safe spot by all appearances.
Having said that, it was pretty dumb of them to lift the keys wholesale and include them in their emulator. Granted, clean-room reverse-engineering of crypto keys to produce ones that don't infringe on someone else's IP isn't a realistic proposition. But when they hit that point, the giant red flags should've been obvious. Maybe they were and they ploughed on regardless; maybe they weren't and they were victims of their own ignorance. Either way, the outcome is what it is.
It's unfortunate that this is the situation Tropic Haze has ended up in, but when Compaq figured this out over 40 years ago they really don't have much of an excuse. Yuzu was quite a technological accomplishment, to be sure, and full credit to them for the work that they did.