Video game giant Nintendo files complaint in the United States against an emulator publisher

Video game giant Nintendo files complaint in the United States against an emulator publisher

2024-02-29 19:38:40

The Japanese video game giant, Nintendo, has decided to launch proceedings in a court in Rhode Island (North-East) once morest an American publisher of an emulator, a program which allows you to freely play console games on a computer or telephone.

For the publisher, this involves Super Mario, Zelda or Donkey Kong, which filed its complaint on Monday, to put an end to the activities of Tropic Haze, a company developing and distributing Yuzu, a particularly popular emulator. Initially created to play games linked to previous Nintendo consoles, it now provides access, according to the Japanese group, to games on its current console, the Switch. An emulator is a small computer program, downloadable to a computer or smartphone, which allows you to play games initially intended for consoles like Switch, PlayStation or Xbox.

Initially, emulators were developed to play games that were no longer published on the latest consoles, before the game «vintage» become a market in itself also for Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. But now they also most often allow you to play the latest games published on current console models.

Circumvention of encryption measures

According to the Japanese giant, Tropic Haze bypasses the complex encryption and protection measures implemented by Nintendo on each of its games in order to then make them accessible to Yuzu users. For Nintendo, this is a violation of the Digital Millennium Act, the American law protecting copyright in the digital context. If the group does not give an estimate of the damage it estimates to have suffered, it does consider that each non-compliance with copyright represents several tens of thousands of dollars in damage, each.

Nintendo also specifies that Yuzu not only allows access to the catalog of existing games on the Switch but also to games that have leaked before their release. So last year the game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was downloaded a million times before it was officially for sale, with pirate sites referring their visitors to Yuzu to play the game, according to the complaint.

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