This legal friction reached a boiling point in early 2024, forever changing the context of files like this one. Nintendo of America filed a massive lawsuit against Tropic Haze LLC, the entity representing the developers of Yuzu. Nintendo argued that Yuzu was primarily designed to circumvent technological measures and facilitated massive piracy, point-blank citing the proliferation of prod.keys and leaked game files on the internet. Rather than fighting a prolonged and incredibly expensive legal battle, the Yuzu developers settled with Nintendo. They agreed to pay $2.4 million in damages, cease all operations, delete their code repositories, and hand over their domain names.