This post is (3/3) of the post restoration effort to the new system. It was made on March 4, 2024.

A moment of silence for yuzu, citra, and emulation and modding communities worldwide.

I am very sad to find out Haze the creators of yuzu, citra, and supportin many mods and communities, folded instead of fighting nintendo. Overnight, thousands of mods stored on the mods page, or forumns for citra or yuzu were lost. The loss of these will be felt for years and years, some people may even pass away before being able to experience specific games with enhancement mods. To me, this is a overall harm to humanity, and i am devistated at what has happened. The courts have said time and again that emulators are legal, and yet nintendo, with infinite funding behind their legal team, went after groups out of court who were unable to fight back. 

I am sure this is not the end, that communities will rise, and wonderful projects will release still in the future. None the less, nintendo has dealt a strong damaging blow to countless peoples experience of content. I for one, altho i had mixed feelings in the past, will now going forward be definitivly against nintendo. Their overreach is one i can feel, there are games that i personally can nolonger experience with enhancement mods, due to them being now lost media as a direct result of nintendo's efforts. Efforts that did not need to result in such destruction, and that nintendo chose to do so anyway. 

I have always thought more then merely a nice thing, that mods are critical to humanitys strongest passions in the world. the entire MOBA genre, and the entire autobattler genre, both direct results of modding. The burning intensity of pokemon nuzlocke community, the scale of the fire emblem community, nearly the entirity of the xcom community, they only exist because of mods. It is is no small part mods inpact peoples lives for the better, and it is crystal clear that mods make the entire gaming medium better for everyone involved. I consider nintendos actions here, a blight on humanity, and I claim this with complete senserity and conviction. Modding is not just kids tinkering for their friend group, many major communities exist only because of mods, and for nintendo for the first time (since the bleem incident back at the dawn of gaming) to take them down on mass, is a threat i will not ignore. 

For nintendo to have still not learned, after all this time, to what lengths the importance is of letting people customize their experience is, and to instead see it as business to take down their enemys, is unacceptable. It never even got to a judge, instead of asking the courts for a decision they pressured people they viewed as enemys out of existance, and destroyed everything in their path, going complete scorched earth. 

I am now firmly anti-nintendo, and support actions of any extreme for game and mod preservation and accessability. Nintendo has been historically horrible for this, but i had believed that piracy groups would probably be enough to keep things from becoming lost media. I was completly wrong. Never had I seriously considered a major company would go to such extremes for complete eradication without making legal arguments before a judge or jury. I thought the eras of mafia-like were mostly of long past, and i was wrong. I feel terrible. 

To groups out there fighting for preservation and accessability, you are fighting for a good cause, one i truly believe is important for humanity. Please, do not give up. You are important for the world. While many people uneducated on the importance of it exist, your actions are critical for the future of humanity. Please, for everyone in the world, fight on.