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Catherine Lewis

Barely 12 hours after the shutdown of major Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, replacements began surfacing online

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Directly on the back of Nintendo taking legal action against the Nintendo Switch emulation software Yuzu, alternatives have already started appearing online. 

Yuzu allowed users to play Nintendo Switch games on PC, and last week, it was revealed that Nintendo had filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the company behind it. At the time, Nintendo alleged that the emulator "provides any Internet user in the world with the means to unlawfully decrypt and play virtually any Nintendo Switch game – including Nintendo’s current generation and most popular games – without ever paying a dime for a Nintendo console or for that game." It added that "there is no lawful way to use Yuzu to play Nintendo Switch games", partially because it must decrypt games' encryption in order to function. 

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