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Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra taken offline as collateral damage in Yuzu lawsuit settlement

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Yuzu’s developers also founded Citra in 2014, forcing them to discontinue „Yuzu’s support of Citra“ after Nintendo lawsuit.
The developers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu entered a surprise settlement with Nintendo on Monday, agreeing to pay the game company $2.4 million in damages and cease development and distribution of the emulator. Now, as a result of that settlement, Citra—a 3DS emulator that shared developers with Yuzu—has also been taken offline.
The Citra Twitter account posted a message that was originally shared in the Yuzu Discord, addressed to „Yuz-ers and Citra fans,“ stating that „Yuzu and Yuzu’s support of Citra are being discontinued, effective immediately.“
The Github repository holding Citra’s code has been shut down. In Yuzu’s settlement with Nintendo, the emulator developers agreed to „surrender, and permanently cease to use… any other website or system that Defendant or its members own or control, directly or indirectly, that involves Nintendo’s Intellectual Property, to Plaintiff’s control.

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