L'arrivée des émulateurs sur iPhone ouvre la voie au retour de la quasi-totalité des jeux qui ont marqué notre enfance… à quelques exceptions près. Certaines consoles pourront difficilement être intégrées, à l'image de la Nintendo GameCube ou de la Wii.

Following copyright takedown requests from Nintendo, the popular physics sandbox game Garry's Mod said it would be pulling all of its Nintendo-related add-ons. "Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo's content and what they allow and don't allow is up to them," said the developers in a post on Steam. "They don't want you playing with that stuff in Garry's Mod -- that's their decision, we have to respect that and take down as much as we can. This is an ongoing process, as we have 20 years of uploads to go through." The Verge reports: The takedown requests mean Garry's Mod will have to remove a huge swath of Nintendo-related maps and other items. Over the years, player-made content on Garry's Mod has allowed players to do things like turn Super Mario 64 into a first-person shooter or even explore Hyrule as Link. Since there is just so much Nintendo-related content on Garry's Mod, developers are asking the community to remove any infringing work they've uploaded.

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Après Delta pour les jeux Nintendo, l'émulateur Provenance, qui supporte de très nombreuses plateformes, prépare son arrivée officielle sur l'App Store. En plus de l'iPhone, il mise sur l'Apple TV pour étendre sa notoriété.

Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and has completely disabled their lead developers' accounts. The Verge: Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo sued out of existence on March 4th. "Discord responds to and complies with all legal and valid Digital Millennium Copyright Act requests. In this instance, there was also a court ordered injunction for the takedown of these materials, and we took action in a manner consistent with the court order," reads part of a statement from Discord director of product communications Kellyn Slone to The Verge. The developers of Suyu and Sudachi only received vague messages about how they were sharing content that allegedly violates intellectual property rights, according to images shared with The Verge. Meanwhile, Discord tells us that it's following its normal process for DMCA takedown requests -- but it's not at all clear there was a valid DMCA takedown request or that those communities were actually violating IP rights, and it's quite possible Discord isn't following its own policy by kicking them out. Remember, Nintendo got Yuzu to settle rather than proving its case in court, and the settlement did not give Nintendo the rights to Yuzu's freely copyable GPL v3 code. Developers of Yuzu's forks also claimed they were changing the code further, among other practices, in an effort to avoid pissing Nintendo off. And that code wasn't hosted on Discord in any case.

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Il restait encore un niveau à terminer dans le jeu vidéo Super Mario Maker, disponible sur Wii U. Jugé impossible, parce que construit hors des clous, il a finalement été achevé par un membre de la Team 0%, le joueur français Sanyx91SMM2.

En 2017, un groupe de passionnés s'est donné un défi a priori impossible : terminer l'intégralité des niveaux de Super Mario Maker, un jeu disponible sur Wii U. Ils y sont parvenus, avec plus de 80 000 niveaux achevés.

[Deal du jour] Paper Mario : La Porte Millénaire est le remaster de la version Gamecube sortie il y a maintenant 20 ans. Le classique de Nintendo fait son retour avec des graphismes améliorés, parfait pour le faire découvrir à un nouveau public sur la Switch.

Note de service aux propriétaires d'une 3DS et/ou d'une Wii U : les fonctionnalités en ligne seront fermées par Nintendo le 8 avril 2024. Il ne vous reste plus que ce week-end pour en profiter.

Switch emulator Suyu -- a fork of the Nintendo-targeted and now-defunct emulation project Yuzu -- has been taken down from GitLab following a DMCA request Thursday. But the emulation project's open source files remain available on a self-hosted git repo on the Suyu website, and recent compiled binaries remain available on an extant GitLab repo. From a report: While the DMCA takedown request has not yet appeared on GitLab's public repository of such requests, a GitLab spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that the project was taken down after the site received notice "from a representative of the rightsholder."

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Un hacker s'est amusé à prendre le contrôle du compte Pokémon Go d'un célèbre streamer. Au même moment, Nintendo alerte sur des compromissions de mot de passe.

[Deal du jour] Princess Peach : Showtime! est prévu pour le 22 mars 2024. Le jeu de Nintendo compte bien moderniser le personnage de Peach, à l'aide de transformations et d'une panoplie de capacités qui n'ont rien à envier à Mario. Voilà où le commander au meilleur prix.

À l'occasion du Mario Day, Nintendo a officialisé la mise en chantier d'un deuxième film d'animation centré sur le plombier moustachu. Et toujours en partenariat avec Illumination.

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.

[Deal du jour] Si vous en avez assez de jouer avec des Joy Con, la manette Pro de la Switch est l'accessoire indispensable. Elle offre une meilleure prise en main et convient pour de longues cessions de jeu. Elle devient plus intéressante en promotion.

Nintendo has filed a 41-page lawsuit against the makers of Yuzu, an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator, accusing them of "facilitating piracy at a colossal scale." Polygon reports: Yuzu is a free emulator that was released in 2018 months after the Nintendo Switch originally launched. The same folks who made Citra, a Nintendo 3DS emulator, made this one. Basically, it's a piece of software that lets people play Nintendo Switch games on Windows PC, Linux, and Android devices. (It also runs on Steam Deck, which Valve showed -- then wiped -- in a Steam Deck video clip.) Emulators aren't necessarily illegal, but pirating games to play on them is. But Nintendo said in its lawsuit that there's no way to legal way to use Yuzu. Nintendo argued that Yuzu executes codes that "defeat" Nintendo's security measures, including decryption using "an illegally-obtained copy of prod.keys." "In other words, without Yuzu's decryption of Nintendo's encryption, unauthorized copies of games could not be played on PCs or Android devices," Nintendo wrote in the lawsuit. As to the alleged damages created by Yuzu, Nintendo pointed to the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Tears of the Kingdom leaked almost two weeks earlier than the game's May 12 release date. The pirated version of the game spread quickly; Nintendo said it was downloaded more than 1 million times before Tears of the Kingdom's release date. People used Yuzu to play the game; Nintendo said more than 20% of download links pointed people to Yuzu. Though Yuzu doesn't give out pirated copies of games, Nintendo repeatedly said that most ROM sites point people toward Yuzu to play whatever games they've downloaded. Nintendo said its "expended significant resources to stop the illegal copying, marketing, sale, and distribution" of its Nintendo Switch games. It says that Yuzu earns the team $30,000 per month on its Patreon from more than 7,000 patrons. Nintendo said the company has earned at least $50,000 in paid Yuzu downloads. Nintendo said that Yuzu's Patreon doubled its paid members in the period between May 1 and May 12, when Tears of the Kingdom was released. Nintendo is asking the court to shut down the emulator, and for damages.

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