ok clearing up a few things:
Several people have exressed confusion about how to download code from github. (EDIT: old method required you to compile the code yourself lol. this one can be done with no prior knowledge as long as the links stay active) right now both github links have links to archived release pages where you can download the most recent builds of each emulator, just scroll down and click 'downloads.' hopefully they'll stay up
for those of you who don't know, the leadup to the screenshotted statement was a lawsuit between nintendo and yuzu in which yuzu was forced to settle, and has now folded due to the settlement. (obligatory reminder that yuzu settling does not necessarily mean that they would have lost the lawsuit/they did something morally wrong. what it DOES mean is that nintendo is a multibillion dollar company with corporate lawyers targeting a much smaller organization with much less budget, because both yuzu and citra were completely free up until very recently.)
given the way this statement from yuzu is worded, i think it's extremely likely that this was a part of the settlement agreement. no one who is even on the outer edges of emulation communities would ever organically use the words "nintendo's technological protection measures." this bootlicking ass wording indicates that yuzu has been bullied into renouncing everything they once stood for. being forced to put out a statement like this which legitimizes nintendo's predatory security measures and obsession with piracy vs "legitimate purchasers" is a punishment more than anything else, and i think it's likely also an intimidation tactic aimed at other emulators. for the love of god, do not take anything in this statement at face value.
emulators are not exclusively vessels for piracy. I can't believe i have to say this on tumblr of all sites, but the reason most open-source emulators are allowed to exist right now is often because they claim status as archival tools. there are countless games that are unplayable without emulators, whether that be because their initial console is no longer widely available, because they only exist in ROM format, etc. Destroying emulators is an easy way to ensure that media will become unplayable and be lost. Citra was one of the only reliable PC 3ds emulators out there. We're lucky that we still have android emulators and console hacks that can play 3ds ROMS, because otherwise literally thousands of games that were a part of one of the most fondly-remembered eras of nintendo gaming could have been completely lost. that shitty $4 eshop game you bought with points in 2011 that sucked but you played for 200 hours because you were eight and you loved it? fucking scorched earth unless there's software that can play it, because it wasn't commercially successful enough to warrant a $60 switch remake or a $50 virtual console adaptation. Emulation keeps those kinds of games alive. If you care about video games or art preservation, you NEED to care about emulation. this is how we archive and maintain access to games that would otherwise be completely lost to time.
dumping a cartridge does not mean throwing it away. please do not throw out your cartridges. this is the exact opposite of what i'm advocating for here. please. to "dump a cartridge" means to copy the playable game files from the cartridge to an external drive of some kind so that it can be copied and distributed without passing on the actual cartridge. this is one of the standard ways roms are made. if you have a hacked 3ds and a bunch of old game cartridges that you don't want to lose, i highly recommend dumping them via gm9. this ensures that even if you lose the cartridge you'll always have a backup of the actual game files.
I cannot stress enough that i am not going to be the cause of a mass emulator takedown for making a tumblr post with one thousand notes. I know that you people have good intentions by warning people not to spread this too far, but 1. i promise you nintendo already knows about all the emulators that i've listed. they're popular. this isn't a big secret thing. Emulators are currently kind of dubiously legal and nintendo HATES THAT which is why it resorted to this lawsuit to take yuzu down (which, again, they didn't win. yuzu settled because nintendo is a gigantic corporation) but it's not like they're not targeting the other emulators because they don't know about them. There are emulators on the google play store. Yuzu has a fucking twitter account for god's sake. this isnt the dark web. and 2. the point of emulation is accessibility. I want people to see this. I want people to know what nintendo is doing to an archival tool in the name of profit. I want everyone with a 3ds to hack it and dump all their cartridges and send the roms to other people to install and play. I want people to download these code repositories and keep them and use them and distribute them because while it's easy to take down a company distributing an emulator, it's much harder to take down code being passed between multiple unaffiliated internet users. don't let them take it from us.
if you bootlick in my comments to any degree i am blocking you. thank you and have a good night
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