Yuzu as a service is well and truly dead after its creator, Tropic Haze, gave in to Nintendo’s lawsuit against the emulator. But far from its emulation efforts disappearing off the face of the earth, its source code is set to live on in the form of a new project called Suyu.
The obvious and blatant nameplay to Yuzu notwithstanding, the new group and creator of Suyu says that it will continue working on the source code. In this case, the source code is written in C++ and designed to be portable to any platform, with plans to provide actively maintained builds for Windows, Linux, and Android systems.
As to how it plans to avoid Nintendo’s litigious arm, the creators of Suyu explains that the emulator currently exists in a legal gray area but the one thing it is avoiding outright is the one thing that many in the industry believe was what got Tropic Haze into trouble in the first place: monetisation. “We do not intend to make money or profit from this project” the group said in its GitHub page.
One of the main highlights of Yuzu was its ability to generate game-specific encryption keys, as highlighted in Nintendo’s lawsuit, and the Suyu team is removing the Yuzu code designed for that purpose. The developers state that users will still be able to use keys and firmware dumps from questionable sources, just to play safe.
At the time of writing, the main site for Suyu is still under construction, but you can still follow the group via its official Discord channel, should you be interested in the group’s progress.
(Source; Suyu via GitHub, Techspot, Ars Technica)
