Whether or not it would matter, you can’t blame people for being nervous about how the devs of these new forks behave. This is the first test to see if Yuzu really can live on. We don’t want more legal takedowns of emulators. After Yuzu, it makes sense to be more cautious. Every time Nintendo pulls the trigger on a lawsuit, more projects decide it’s not worth the risk and devs quit.

Just one of many “forks” we’ll see pop up over the next few months. Maybe this one has actual developers involved and isn’t just a repo, but it’s too be seen. Funny name, though.

Nintendo is past their era of selling the same games to you over and over. Now their old games are subscription based, so you can never stop paying them and never own your childhood classics.

Lots of optimism for Yuzu living on in some fork of the code, but I don’t expect it will be that simple. Qualified new devs will not be likely to invest anywhere near the time and energy the original devs have. If they’re smart, they’ll avoid taking direct donations, which means the project will at best be a side hobby. Switch emulation will become a lot harder to document if development fragments into smaller forks. Not sure if a game is compatible or what settings to use? Maybe you’ll find some recommended settings for Yuzu Fork A, but not Fork G you set up because it has better compatibility with another game you were interested in. Information is going to be confusing, inaccurate, and inconsistent as the scene goes underground. Links and other sources won’t be as trustworthy or safe. What was once a fun and easy way to play games will become a risk and a chore. I’m glad there are immediate efforts to get the project back online, but I can’t see this settlement as anything less than a massive blow to emulation and game preservation as a whole. Decades of legal precedent that developers have relied on to safely do their work is being thrown out. Things are objectively worse now than they were before. We are already exiting the golden age of emulation.