Is 3DS emulation effectively dead now? Citra was the only good 3DS emulator out there from what I’ve seen…
Not like there will be new games. So at least compatibility is not an issue.
As for efficiency: We’ll see what other devs will do.If by emulation you mean your ability to emulate, absolutely not. Its a portable program, you can find countless mirrors of the downloads or ask someone you know and trust for a copy. If you mean active development in 3DS emulation… Yeah probably dead.
Citra seemed like a finished product and the code is open source, I don’t see why anyone couldn’t just pick it up again start development again as long as it isn’t the main team.
Fuck Nintendo :)
This sucks, but like, Bleem taught us this lesson almost 30 years ago: don’t take money for an emulator.
Yup. Im getting blasted in another thread for simply acknowledging that Nintendo is going to win on this and the devs knew they were in a grey zone
Ohh man, I’d always heard about citra but never needed it since I still have an O3DS, you had to pay for it?!
I think it was a donation system. But they were making some money off it so 🤷
Citra was free. It’s only unfortunate collateral damage in the Yuzu switch emulator suit, since there was a lot of overlap between devs, and part of the settlement was that the Yuzu devs have to shut down all their emulation projects.
Yuzu was also free, but they ran a Patreon (reportedly taking in over a million dollars total) where you could get the early access builds for $7/mo. Most damningly, reportedly they distributed hotfixes to patrons run the ToTK leak before the game even released (i.e., before anyone could be hypothetically dumping their own legal copies to play). So a real triple blunder of taking money for an emulator, enabling piracy, and not maintaining even the veneer believing that people were only using it legally.
It should be noted that I don’t think this is how the laws should be; I don’t believe piracy meaningfully harms sales, nor do I believe it should be punished, but we have to be realistic about how things are; Yuzu would have lost in court, so we can only be glad they settled, rather than establishing legal precedent that would’ve decimated the emulation scene.
