Nintendo seems dead set on snuffing out Switch emulation. As reported by TorrentFreak, Nintendo recently filed several DMCA notices against Switch emulator repositories on GitHub, resulting in the removal of over 400 Nintendo Switch emulator-related codebases from the site. Specifically, these DMCAs were targeted at the emulators Suyu, Skyline, and Yuzu.
In 2024, Nintendo settled with Tropic Haze, the company behind Yuzu, for $2.4 million. As part of the settlement, Tropic Haze was ordered to stop developing the emulator and remove its code from its official repository. However, because the software was open-source, developers forked the code, which eventually evolved into a successor emulator, Suyu. As for the Skyline emulator for Android, the developers shut down the project in 2023 after pressure from Nintendo.
Nintendo has argued that emulators like Yuzu and Suyu encourage piracy by circumventing the company’s “technological protection measures” (TPM). Nintendo’s TPMs are a form of encryption embedded in the Nintendo Switch console and in video game files to “prevent users from unlawfully accessing and copying Nintendo Switch games.”
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