This emulator will also try an experimental Mac version to further annoy Nintendo, which seems to ignore the fact that not all emulation is harmful (especially when some games are no longer legally available, and that’s something the big N has experience with).

The developers have announced on the official Discord server for the Suyu emulator that the first binary release will be today, March 20th. There will be Linux x86_64, Windows x86_64, Android ARMv8a, and even an experimental MacOS build, although the project was launched only two weeks ago. At the time, it was known that the developers of the Yuzu emulator had reached an out-of-court settlement with Nintendo, resulting in the cessation of development of a prominent emulator for the Nintendo Switch.

There probably wasn’t any significant development in the two weeks, as that’s how long it takes to start from Yuzu’s source code (Suyu is a fork of its code), but the emulator has to start somewhere, and there will certainly be innovations and features that were left out of Yuzu that will be in the English-language Suyu. (The term Suyu is probably used by Nintendo, because they probably want to sue these developers, too, i.e. I will sue you…)

Tropic Haze, the team behind Yuzu, which emulates Nintendo Switch games, and Citra, which previously ran Nintendo 3DS titles, is paying $2.4 million to the Japanese console company, and it turns out that Yuzu also collected a lot of user data, and who knows what the big N will end up doing with it, since the company says that the emulator was mainly used to run pirated games. (Buying a game and then downloading it to emulate it may be a pirated game, but it would be the equivalent of a backup copy since the game was purchased!)

So the Suyu emulator launches today, and who knows how long it will take Nintendo’s lawyers to jump on it.

Source: WCCFTech