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- Development on the Nintendo Switch emulator NxEmu has restarted after a three-year hiatus.
- It’s not a simple Yuzu fork, although it does borrow some code from the now-defunct emulator.
- The developer is attempting to avoid Yuzu and Ryujinx’s legal vulnerabilities.
Nintendo’s legal team has been on a tear in recent years, shutting down the Nintendo Switch emulators Yuzu and Ryujinx and scoring a major victory against ROM sharing online. One developer has been taking notes, and with a new strategy to avoid the ire of Nintendo’s lawyers, they’ve restarted development on a new Switch emulator.
Called NxEmu, the emulator first entered development years ago before starting a long hiatus three years ago. At that point the emulator was only capable of running a single commercial game, which is a milestone for any emulator but well behind the capabilities of alternatives like Yuzu. After that, development stopped and it was largely forgotten.