Nintendo are suing the team behind the Switch Emulator Yuzu

Nintendo is suing Tropic Haze, the creators of the popular Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, alleging its tech was used to let over one million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom download illegally a week and a half before its official release.

In the lawsuit, spotted by Stephen Totilo, Nintendo alleges that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as well as accusing the creators of copyright infringement. It alleges Yuzu is "primarily designed" to circumvent several layers of Nintendo Switch encryption so its users can play copyrighted Nintendo games.

The company's not only asking for the courts to stop Yuzu in its tracks with a permanent injunction. It also wants to take away its domain names, URLs, chatrooms, and social media presence; hand yuzu-emu.org over to Nintendo; and even seize and destroy its hard drives to help wipe out the emulator. Oh, and Nintendo wants lots of money in damages as well.

This isn't the first time Nintendo sought legal action against an emulator creator. In 2019, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against a ROM-hosting website called RomUniverse for copyright infringement and federal trademark infringement. A lawsuit Nintendo won in 2021 and was paid $2.1 million in damages. Prior to Nintendo's multi-million dolllar lawsuit against RomUniverse, the company was awarded over $12 million in damages from Rom hosting sites LoveRETRO and LoveROMS in 2018.

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