• voxel@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    tbf there was never a paywall. ea = latest yuzu master branch with some work-in-progress-but-almost-ready-for-general-use prs merged in.
    anyone could have taken the repo, merged prs from the list and built it, with no need to pay for anything. It’s free software after all

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      1 year ago

      Yeah you’re right, it was brought to my attention that the lawsuit was about decrypting games, especially Tears of the Kingdom, before they were released. The monetization was just to provide earlier access to precompiled binaries

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      1 year ago

      There was actually someone who did that, the repo was called pineapple-src and it was fairly popular