[HN Gopher] 3DS Emulator Citra is closing up shop and removing a...
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       3DS Emulator Citra is closing up shop and removing all their
       sites/code
        
       Author : morder
       Score  : 88 points
       Date   : 2024-03-04 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | branon wrote:
       | What was the relation between Yuzu and Citra?
        
         | gjsman-1000 wrote:
         | Both were developed by Tropic Haze, the company that Nintendo
         | sued.
        
       | Pykee wrote:
       | Anyone manage to find a mirror of the source? I didn't know that
       | Citra would've also been caught up in the kerfuffle.
        
         | bcraven wrote:
         | This should be the latest nightly:
         | 
         | https://archive.org/details/citra-nightly-2104
         | 
         | I understand this is a repository of backups too:
         | 
         | https://git.zaroz.cloud/nintendo-back-up
        
         | haunter wrote:
         | https://archive.org/details/citra-latest-builds-4th-march-20...
         | 
         | Wayback Machine also saved them if you use it on the nightly
         | release page
        
       | giancarlostoro wrote:
       | Gotta love that specific language.
        
       | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
       | I'd argue this is actually a bigger loss than the Switch emulator
       | closing up shop, because the Switch is still actively being sold
       | and developed for.
       | 
       | The 3DS is dead at this point, and Nintendo shut down the online
       | shop. I have a 3DS with a bunch of digital games I purchased and
       | downloaded onto the device that I haven't gotten around to
       | playing yet (mostly JRPGs, because 40 hours a pop is a tall
       | order). If my 3DS dies and all the emulators disappear, I'm outta
       | luck.
       | 
       | Time to start lobbying Atlus for a Radiant Historia Switch port,
       | I suppose...
        
         | 0xcde4c3db wrote:
         | Also, there is another good Switch emulator (Ryujinx) that
         | people could reasonably use instead. The same is not (yet) true
         | for 3DS.
        
         | TillE wrote:
         | Nothing's disappearing except for the official hosting of
         | Citra.
         | 
         | Citra already fully supported every notable 3DS game, I think,
         | and recent development work has mostly come from outside
         | contributors rather than Tropic Haze.
        
           | Eiim wrote:
           | Nothing's disappearing, except the binaries and source. Good-
           | quality archives will surely be assembled, but it at a
           | minimum makes Citra significantly harder to access.
        
             | slim wrote:
             | I bet citra is mostly accessed as a retroarch core these
             | days
        
       | SomeoneFromCA wrote:
       | Massive idiocy on Nintendo side, as these sources for these
       | emulators are already backed up and will already resurface again.
        
         | johnnyanmac wrote:
         | I think the goal is simply to mitigate, not eliminate. I'm sure
         | by now software companies know trying to eliminate piracy is
         | like trying to make cockroaches go extinct.
        
           | Spoom wrote:
           | I think part of the goal is to have, in the record, a
           | statement that any app that is otherwise legal but requires
           | the user to download cryptographic keys to use is a _de
           | facto_ violation of the DMCA. I think that 's why they're
           | settling so easily here and likely paying the settlement for
           | the Yuzu folks. They're hoping that they can use that as
           | precedent for future cases.
        
           | SomeoneFromCA wrote:
           | You'd be surprised how stupidly stubborn corps can be.
        
       | croes wrote:
       | So I guess CitaVR for the Quest is a collateral damage.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       | Some more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39594795
        
         | ChrisArchitect wrote:
         | Related:
         | 
         |  _Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M
         | in damages_
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39594795
        
         | VoidWhisperer wrote:
         | They are related but not a dupe. Citra and yuzu are separate
         | emulators and these are separate links. While technically
         | maintained by the same developer, I feel like the argument can
         | be made that the separate topics are warranted
        
       | hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
       | I'm so surprised that the hacker/emu community did not retaliate
       | against Nintendo all these years.
        
         | Narishma wrote:
         | Retaliate how?
        
       | tiffanyh wrote:
       | This is: "[Nintendo] 3DS", _not_ "[EMV] 3DS"
        
       | tehwebguy wrote:
       | > In particular, we have been deeply disappointed when users have
       | used our software to leak game content prior to its release
       | 
       | With an emulator?
        
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