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This is the best summary I could come up with:
After Yuzu emulator owners agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million USD and EmuDeck also announcing Yuzu and Citra removal right after the court settlement became available on the internet, Nintendo DS emulator DraStic turned free on Android Play Store (previously $4.99).
The developer Exophase wrote “I want to make it clear that I don’t have any kind of financial incentive”, stating that the Yuzu situation made it more urgent for this software to go free and opensource due to the implications that legal case could cause to DraStic.
Quoting the Developer post on DraStic Discord server:
Releasing the source in short order is something I fully intend on doing.
I was already planning on this a while ago so it’s not simply due to the Nintendo stuff, that just made the whole process more urgent which I guess is a good thing because I’m terrible at doing things.
Note that Drastic also has a "Linux" version for Raspberry Pi devices usually distributed with retro-gaming focused distributions like Batocera so, this source code release might be a starting point for this emulator to be ported to other architectures like x86_64.
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