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Tropic Haze – the company behind the emulation software Yuzu – has responded to Nintendo’s summons that accuses the company of “illegally circumventing Nintendo’s software encryption”.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Ed reported Nintendo was suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu<\/a>, claiming more than one million copies of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> were pirated ahead of its release.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, Nintendo claimed that by allowing Yuzu emulator users to play its games illegally by circumventing its software encryption, Tropic Haze facilitates piracy “at a colossal scale”.<\/p>\n

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Tropic Haze – the company behind the emulation software Yuzu – has responded to Nintendo’s summons that accuses the company of “illegally circumventing Nintendo’s software encryption”. Earlier this week, Ed reported Nintendo was suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu, claiming more than one million copies of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom were pirated ahead of its release. In the lawsuit, Nintendo claimed that by allowing Yuzu emulator users to play its games illegally by circumventing its software encryption, Tropic Haze facilitates piracy “at a colossal scale”. 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