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      Princess Peach Showtime n’a pas de mode coop et c’est une bonne chose

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 3 days ago - 07:58

    Princess Peach Showtime Coop Multijoueurs

    Le petit dernier de Nintendo n'est pas un simple spin-off mais un titre à part entière qui se défait de l'ombre moustachue qui éclipsait jusqu'alors l'héroïne.
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      ‘A fascinating insight into pandemic psychology’: how Animal Crossing gave us an escape

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 21 March - 16:20 · 1 minute

    It was the biggest online game in lockdown. Now the National Videogame Museum has collected players’ experiences to find out what it meant to them

    “Today is the first day of your new life on this pristine, lovely island. So, congratulations!” says Tom Nook, the benevolent tanuki landlord, a few minutes into Animal Crossing: New Horizons. (Nook is often besmirched online, but you can’t argue that he’s extremely welcoming.) Many players read this comforting message at a destabilising and frightening time in the real world: Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out on Nintendo Switch on 20 March 2020, a few months into the Covid pandemic and a few days before the UK entered its first lockdown.

    This was fortuitous timing. When we were all stuck at home, the game let us plant our native fruits, tend to our flowers and see what the town shop had on offer, repaying our extensive loans (interest-free, thankfully) to Tom Nook as a way of escaping the chaos and daily death tolls. We opened the gates to our islands and welcomed friends and strangers into our pristine little worlds. As real life crumbled, we started anew with bespectacled cats , sheep in clown’s coats and rhinos who looked like cakes .

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      Bourré de bonnes idées, Princess Peach: Showtime est surtout un jeu pour les enfants

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 21 March - 11:00

    Sortie importante de la Nintendo Switch au premier trimestre 2024, Princess Peach: Showtime! permet à la célèbre princesse de s'émanciper dans une aventure qui ne manque pas d'idées. À réserver surtout à un public plus jeune. Notre test.

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      La Switch OLED de Nintendo à moins de 240 euros pour l’anniversaire d’AliExpress FIRE

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Sunday, 17 March - 19:55

    Switch Oled Anniversaire Aliexpress

    Pour l'anniversaire d'AliExpress, la Nintendo Switch OLED voit son prix s'effondrer pour passer sous la barre des 240 euros !
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      Nintendo Hits Circumvention Tool Linkers With DMCA Trafficking Violations

      news.movim.eu / TorrentFreak · Thursday, 14 March - 10:00 · 3 minutes

    nintendeal2 It took less than a week for Nintendo’s lawsuit against the company behind the Yuzu Switch emulator to have the desired effect.

    After agreeing to hand over $2.4m to Nintendo while complying with the terms of a broad injunction, Tropic Haze LLC evaporated in all but name and its developers drifted away into the night, apologetic and presumably penniless. At least, that’s what the paperwork and subsequent announcement implied, give or take.

    Nintendo: We’re Back

    With plenty of time in the interim to clone the Yuzu repo, many people did, purely for old times’ sake. Others still involved with projects related to Switch hacking and emulation had decisions to make, at least based on the theory that things had somehow changed. Some took evasive action, others took steps towards limiting liability, some appeared to do nothing; the usual mixed bag of responses following a big shutdown event.

    That Nintendo was not too far away comes as zero surprise. Among the targets this week were over 25 GitHub repos offering Sigpatch-Updater, a tool to update SigPatch files created by developer iTotalJustice. In conjunction with a modded console, SigPatches bypass signature verification when games are downloaded digitally, a red line for Nintendo.

    “The necessity of SigPatches to operate pirated copies of Nintendo’s video games is widely discussed in groups dedicated to modifying (hacking) the Nintendo Switch console,” Nintendo’s lengthy DMCA takedown notice reads.

    “For example, [redacted by GitHub], a site that instructs users how to modify their Nintendo Switch console, states that ‘Signature patches or SigPatches allow your device to bypass signature checks performed by [private] for installed titles,” Nintendo notes, before adding the following:

    Trafficking in circumvention software, such as SigPatches, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States (specifically, 17 U.S.C. §1201) (the “DMCA”), and infringes copyrights owned by Nintendo.

    Nintendo Gets Reacquainted With iTotalJustice

    Back in the summer of 2022, a previous set of DMCA notices included one that targeted a repo operated by iTotalJustice. Before it was taken down, the repo contained actual SigPatches and Nintendo makes the same allegation here, albeit with additional detail that broadens the scope beyond actual hosting.

    “With the iTotalJustice repository reported in this current notice, iTotalJustice is attempting to evade Nintendo’s enforcement efforts by providing SigPatches via a link to a third-party website ([private]), rather than including SigPatches in the repository itself,” Nintendo writes.

    “The link is accompanied by the statement ‘The patches are downloaded from a new host. Huge thanks to them!’ Several of the forks reported in this notice also link to the third-party website [private] to provide SigPatches.”

    Repos removed for trafficking in circumvention devices sigpatch-repos

    According to Nintendo, a hyperlink posted to a website that links to another website (not even to the SigPatches themselves), which in turn offers the SigPatch files for download, is illegal under the DMCA when the linker demonstrates knowledge and intent.

    “Linking to circumvention software is considered ‘trafficking’ in violation of the DMCA where, as here, the party responsible for the link (a) knows that the offending material is on the linked site, (b) knows that the linked material is circumvention technology, and (c) maintains the link for the purpose of disseminating that technology,” the company explains, citing 17 U.S. Code § 1201 .

    Takedown Notice Targets Lockpick

    A second notice targets a piece of software known as Lockpick. This circumvention tool bypasses Nintendo’s security (Technological Protection Measures, or TPM) on the Switch console, providing access to cryptographic keys, including product keys, which are then decrypted and extracted.

    This allows pirated Switch games to be played on modified consoles or if users prefer, on emulators like Yuzu. Nintendo states that Lockpick is illegal under 17 U.S.C. §1201 and those who facilitate access to it, under the conditions previously outlined for SigPatches, similarly traffic in circumvention software, contrary to the DMCA.

    These won’t be the last notices of their type from Nintendo and another Yuzu-style lawsuit can’t be ruled out either. In an article published by Ars earlier this week, the developers behind apparent Yuzu successor ‘Suyu’ outlined a few of their lawsuit-avoidance strategies.

    After confirming that Suyu is pronounced “sue-you (wink, wink)” the strategy as outlined doesn’t really contain anything that might discourage a fairly litigious Nintendo even slightly. Having read the Contributor License Agreement , it can’t be ruled out that the people behind this have a dark sense of humor.

    Nintendo’s notices are available here and here

    From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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      Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is All But Done. Price: $2.4m. Cost to Emulation: TBD

      news.movim.eu / TorrentFreak · Tuesday, 5 March - 12:02 · 6 minutes

    nintendeal2 Available on Windows, Linux, and since 2023, Android, Yuzu claims to be the most popular open-source Switch emulator in the world.

    That’s probably why Nintendo targeted Yuzu in a major copyright complaint filed last Monday in the United States. According to the Japanese gaming giant, Nintendo games are designed for Nintendo hardware and being the most popular Switch emulator in the world isn’t an accolade, it’s a statement of global piracy and always has been.

    In many respects the 41-page complaint is meticulous as it details Nintendo’s long-held position on emulation. Cracking Nintendo’s console security violates the company’s rights under the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions. Bypassing or otherwise evading Nintendo security, deployed to protect its videogame content from piracy, fares no better.

    Everything is Illegal, Period

    From this base position, Nintendo believes everything built upon those initial violations simply amounts to further breaches of its intellectual property rights. The complaint alleges that the U.S. company behind Yuzu, Tropic Haze LLC, set out to facilitate Switch videogame piracy from the start.

    Lead developer Bunnei and other coders hired by the company built and maintained Yuzu; they also encouraged Yuzu users to obtain their own encryption keys, fully aware they could only be obtained from Switch consoles, in violation of the DMCA.

    The keys themselves are useful only when paired with Nintendo games. Indeed, the games cannot be played without them, while the games themselves can only be obtained after first violating the DMCA and then by copying, contrary to the Copyright Act, Nintendo explained.

    Meticulous Technical Lawsuit, Surprisingly Thin On Basics

    As previously reported , Nintendo’s complaint states that every infringing act, carried out by any ‘agent’ of Tropic Haze LLC, rendered the company liable for their conduct. Most notably, that includes the conduct of Yuzu lead developer Bunnei, without whom there would be no Yuzu.

    Indeed, the complaint clearly states the importance of Bunnei, before zooming out to reveal a Switch piracy feeding frenzy on a global scale. All of this was made possible, Nintendo said, due to Yuzu’s built-in ability to pair extracted keys with pirated games. The rest of the critical development work, all of it led by Bunnei, was reportedly carried out to their specification.

    Use of the possessive pronoun ‘their’ is hardly unusual but, when a lawsuit of this gravity paints a picture of a global piracy facilitator and then refers to them exclusively by their online handle, that’s somewhat unusual.

    If Nintendo had drawn a blank on a real identity, that might offer an explanation. But with no Doe defendants even alluded to and not a single human mentioned by real name in the entire complaint, that raises the most important questions of them all: Who signs the check for damages when Nintendo wins, do they actually have the money, and why aren’t they here now?

    Having noticed this anomaly in the complaint, we expected to have a little time to put the pieces together. Yet it appears that time has all but run out. After months or possibly years preparing for the big emulator showdown, Nintendo filed suit on February 26 and seven days later (which includes a weekend) a joint proposal was filed before the court on Monday, just a signature away from conclusion.

    Joint Motion For Entry of Final Judgment and Default

    Rather than put up a fight, Tropic Haze LLC’s pledge to Nintendo is to lose the case, so that Nintendo gets the big win it had hoped for, minus the inconvenience of litigation.

    To ensure Nintendo isn’t troubled on the financial front, Tropic Haze LLC has consented to final judgment in favor of Nintendo and monetary relief to the tune of $2.4 million.

    “Defendant and its members irrevocably and fully waive notice and service of the Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction, once issued by this Court, and understand and agree that violation of the Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction will expose the Defendant and its members to all penalties provided by law, including for contempt of Court,” the motion continues.

    “Defendant and its members irrevocably and fully waive any and all right to appeal the Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction, to have it vacated or set aside, or otherwise to attack in any way, directly or collaterally, its validity or enforceability.”

    “Findings of Fact”

    The judgment and injunction proposed by Nintendo and Tropic Haze begin with a statement indicating that the Court will make certain ‘findings of fact’ in respect of the dispute and the details supporting its conclusion. In the event Nintendo finds another Yuzu in need of suppression, these established ‘facts’ would hold significant value.

    They are summarized here but the heart of the ‘facts’ remain.

    – The Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch video games contain technological measures that effectively control access to copyrighted works and protect rights of copyright owners, including Nintendo. Nintendo owns valid copyrights in works protected by the Technological Measures, including its video games and the Nintendo Switch operating system.

    – Yuzu, a video game emulator, circumvents the Technological Measures and allows for the play of encrypted Nintendo Switch games on devices other than a Nintendo Switch. For example, Yuzu executes code that decrypts Nintendo Switch video games (including component files) immediately before and during runtime using unauthorized copies of Nintendo Switch cryptographic keys.

    – Yuzu is primarily designed to circumvent and play Nintendo Switch games. In the ordinary course of its operation with those games, Yuzu requires the Nintendo Switch’s proprietary cryptographic keys to gain access to and play Nintendo Switch games.

    – Developing or distributing software, including Yuzu, that in its ordinary course functions only when cryptographic keys are integrated without authorization, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition on trafficking in devices that circumvent effective technological measures, because the software is primarily designed for the purpose of circumventing technological measures. Id. § 1201(a)(2)(A) .

    Permanent Injunction

    The permanent injunction to which Tropic Haze has consented leaves zero room for maneuver. It restrains the company and all acting in concert or under its control from advertising, selling, distributing, cloning or even testing Yuzu, or any of its source or features. The same applies to any other software or device that circumvents Nintendo’s technical protection measures, including through the use of Nintendo’s cryptographic keys to decrypt files.

    If passed as written, the injunction would restrain direct or indirect infringement of Nintendo’s intellectual property rights, including by enabling, facilitating or encouraging others to do so. Attempting to circumvent the measures laid out in the injunction through assignments or transfers, or the formation of new entities, is also ruled out.

    The scope of the following section remains to be seen, but even if taken at face value, the aim is clear. Any emulator substantially similar to Yuzu should be considered immediately more vulnerable than previously understood.

    And once there’s no familiar place left for the community around Yuzu to gather, the purging of the tools can begin, wherever that’s possible.

    The proposed final judgment and permanent injunction have not yet been signed off by the judge but since the parties are in agreement on the details, that’s probably just a question of time. Meanwhile, a statement has appeared on yuzu-emu.org.

    The documents referenced above are available here and here (pdf)

    From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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      C’est la fin de l’émulation Switch et 3DS : Nintendo a coincé les développeurs de Yuzu

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 5 March - 09:44

    Deux semaines après avoir reçu une plainte de Nintendo, les développeurs de Yuzu et de Citra ont décidé de ne pas risquer un procès. Ils acceptent de verser 2,4 millions de dollars à Nintendo et de supprimer leurs émulateurs, afin d'éviter la prison.