The fork created from the Yuzu emulator (i.e. the development branch in the program’s source code) was available for a very short time, as the DMCA claim came almost immediately for Suyu.

The Yuzu emulator was officially removed, and the developers will pay $2.4 million in damages to Nintendo as a result of the out-of-court settlement. However, two forks appeared on the Internet almost immediately. One of them, Nuzu, basically disappeared as soon as it appeared, so you could call it vaporware. The other, Suyu, quickly moved into action, putting its money where its mouth is.

A few days ago, the first public build of the emulator appeared, completely rebranded. It has ICNS icon generation, error handling and Qlaunch integration, which requires at least v17 firmware, is still rudimentary as it is buggy and needs a lot of testing. For automated builds, Gitlab is used, the user has to provide the firmware and code for the games (if there are no downloads involved, this can be called legal emulation!), the addon manager has been improved, several bugs have been fixed, and Mac support has been started. On AMD devices, video playback was improved and several features were added to the “red” drivers; telemetry was removed (!), the multiplayer API was reimplemented, and new interface options and fixes were added.

However, Suyu was not on GitLab for long, as a DMCA claim came in from the rights holder’s representative, to which GitLab responded immediately. Suyu doesn’t know who filed the claim, but we can be almost certain it was Nintendo. There is a trick: the codebase is available from another location, but new users are not allowed to make copies to prevent spam, so they have to make a new post in the git-access-request on their Discord server to authenticate the user’s account. This way they can cut out the Nintendo whistleblowers.

Meanwhile, another long-running emulator, Ryujinx, remains untouched. However, the removal of telemetry from Suyu is positive news.

Source: WCCFTech, Overkill, Suyu, Discord