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Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Yep all you need to do is find a copy of the firmware (you actually can get the latest firmware from the internet archive) and the decryption keys (they're a little bit more difficult to find, can't remember where I got them from, but it took a long time for me to find a working download)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or just download a FitGirl repack of any Switch game and you don't have to worry about any firmware/decryption nonsense. Just install and play.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've wondered about those. Don't they get outdated as the emulators become more developed? I'm assuming it's packed with whichever version was the latest stable release at the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yes but you can always just update the emulator yourself. If you're playing the latest games then you're usually using a more up-to-date version anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

There are tons of sites that host switch firmware and "prod keys" for it as well. You need the keys for playing games on the switch natively as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I never figured this out. When I play switch games it's always a version that bundles the emulator with it and has all the keys and bios crap already configured.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You might also ask nicely for folks to send you theirs. Especially since Nintendo is going after Yuzu, I'm sure there's plenty of folks that would volunteer keys via DM just to stick it to Nintendo...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The keys I found were on a website linked from a website posted to a Reddit sub. And they were base64 encoded for obscurity