A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit.
Hopefully their works will live in the saved repos just as ReVanced was able to live on after YouTube shut the original project down.
They’ve been earning 30k USD per month according to their patreon page. I’ve read in a comment that they’ve doubled their supporters at the time TOTK was leaked.
Interestingly 30k USD per month over 7 years is 2.5m USD, which is pretty close to the 2.3m USD settlement.
Assuming they didn’t use a penny of those 30k and just kept it stored away in their “in case of Nintendo break glass” case
Oh no you right, I misread