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an "artist" kind of
Ngl i went to upd8 this and its like, oh boy what do folks actually write
Into horror things - TTRPGs - LARP - Pokemon - MtG - minecraft.
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The 3DS emulator Citra is gone

You might've been hearing about Yuzu, the switch emulator, coming under fire. As part of the settlement, citra, basically the only 3DS emulator, was taken down with it. The github is gone, and I'm sure the website will be gone soon too.

https://github.com/citra-emu/citra
https://citra-emu.org/

This is serious. You were worried about the precedent, it's already happening. Nintendo will have this case to draw on for future litigation against any emulator it wants (see first comment, it was settled out of court; a quick search will yield many articles, take your pick). This effectively took down two emulators with just bullying alone (not rom sites like in the past); this still sets a bad precedent in my book.

I really want to drive this home: citra was the only playable 3DS emulator. 3DS emulation is currently dead, until someone picks it back up. The discord was nuked today, there is currently no organized community. Yuzu was not the only switch emulator, but there is no other 3DS emulator.

Edit: The final post on the citra discord:
Hello yuz-ers and Citra fans: We write today to inform you that yuzu and yuzu’s support of Citra are being discontinued, effective immediately. yuzu and its team have always been against piracy. We started the projects in good faith, out of passion for Nintendo and its consoles and games, and were not intending to cause harm. But we see now that because our projects can circumvent Nintendo’s technological protection measures and allow users to play games outside of authorized hardware, they have led to extensive piracy. In particular, we have been deeply disappointed when users have used our software to leak game content prior to its release and ruin the experience for legitimate purchasers and fans. We have come to the decision that we cannot continue to allow this to occur. Piracy was never our intention, and we believe that piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end. Effective today, we will be pulling our code repositories offline, discontinuing our Patreon accounts and Discord servers, and, soon, shutting down our websites. We hope our actions will be a small step toward ending piracy of all creators’ works. Thank you for your years of support and for understanding our decision.

Please don't pester the Yuzu/citra devs, this isn't their fault and their lives are probably ruined owing 2 million dollars in damages to a company worth 66 billion

 
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