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[–] [email protected] 107 points 8 months ago (4 children)

We're going to be seeing a lot of these. Until people decide on which fork gets to be 2zu, don't expect anything from these.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

inb4 a new fork called 2zu shows up lmao

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

At least one of these does need active testers and devs, tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

True, at the very least, the sheer amount of them means that more people will be able to get yuzu while development is at a standstill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Since all these forks are based of yuzu souce code and the developers admitted it was primarily for piracy, doesn't this make these all an easy target to take down? I think this might prevent a true successor with active development from emerging.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Just because they said it doesn't mean the new use of the code has the same purpose. Perhaps this fork can claim to be for homebrew apps, for example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

No. Their statement as part of a settlement has no bearing on unrelated parties. It's not precedent.

And the code is already open source, so anyone and everyone has full rights to do anything they want within the license. No one is capable of DMCAing it (or rather, anyone is, but the author can trivially point to the license giving them the full right to modify and redistribute in a counterclaim).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah but if they're smart they will work on this anonymously. You can't force someone to show up to court if their identity is secret

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I don't get why people are down-voting you. It's a perfectly legit question that I'm thinking about myself. I'm not a lawyer but there would be ways to shield yourself legally I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm sorry but I refuse to switch to an emulator that is not named after a citrus.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

i'd play totk on grapefruit, or kiyomi, or tangor, or even rangpur. perhaps kampei, or jabara, or iyokan. maybe lumia or pompia, or daidai, or chinotto, or calamansi. koji and reikou work too. suenkat/sunki, sudachi, kabosu, oroblanco, dangyuja, amanatsu... the possibilities are endless!

but maybe citri are too obvious, maybe we should think out of the box... like melons! honeydew sounds like a good emulator name (maybe a bit overused though), and so does argos, gaya or hami too! kajari, mirza, and dosakai as well...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

but maybe citri are too obvious, maybe we should think out of the box... like melons!

Sorry, but I'm an emulated fruit purist, and melonDS is never taking over my crusty desmume installation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

im wondering is melonds or desmume better

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Desmume is better because I already have it installed and know exactly how it works. Ymmv

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

isn't desmume intentionally incompatible with a couple games?

(also. melon is by a trans dev so. Winning)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

ok, im booting up lemonDS as i want to use lime but its not in lutris yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

🏳️‍⚧️! \ö/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

It's not incompatible with the like 4 ds games I bother to emulate instead of run on 3ds, and that's what matters to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But desmume is almost dead, no big improvements over a decade

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Tbf, I think I've been transferring the exact same installation machine to machine for almost that long

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Mei the emulator

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

💯 points for the name.

They should make it use the sosumi sound for something so that maybe they can get sued by Apple Inc too 😂

Poor choice of git hosts though; won't gitlab.com take down anything that a big company asks them to?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

two weeks later: GitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu

sad to see their new git hosting is behind cloudflare 😢

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Haha funny name, but let's see how much traction it will get.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Waiting for the fork named fuckyu-ntndo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

(mainly so that Nintendo won't sue us lol)

Okay don't get sued lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As if that helps. People making pokemon hacks have been gotten forced to stop by Nintendo, despite making no money. Nintendo will likely try to sue them still

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

First huzu now suzu. Are we gonna be able to fill the alphabet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The two I've seen so far are "Nuzu" and Suyu" - if Suyu has the proper structure set up so that Nintendo can't get at them, I think that's the name I'd prefer; but otherwise it just feels like people looking to get some cheap fame.

If either of these projects has an owner with a history of contributing to the Yuzu project, I think that's the one that'll succeed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Clever name, but will it be well maintained?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They are already doing that, and plenty of commits as well.

The main question now is if it will be further developed once they get the automatic builds up again. The good news is that Yuzu doesn't need much improvement now, just a few days before the lawsuit they did some very needed vram usage fixes so now development only has to focus on getting future titles to launch.

edit: Of course I'm talking about the pc builds, Getting android to work was a nightmare even for the original devs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Suyu 😂😂😂😂

It's like they're begging Nintendo to sic private investigators and a whole centurion of highly paid lawyers on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think the logo is cool ;)