The team behind the amazing WiiU emulator, CEMU, has released a new version and YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ has shared some videos showing Bayonetta 2, Star Fox Zero and Mario Kart 8 running in 1080p and with 60fps on it.
The team behind CEMU is making a lot of progress and this latest version of this WiiU emulator comes with better game compatibility and improved performance on a variety of games.
This latest version of CEMU will be made available to the public possibly next week (it is currently available only to Patreon members).
Enjoy!
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this kind of comments are holding us all on beta games, bugfested, with no quality control. keep it up young pissers..wtf happened in gaming community is beyond me..
Some old illiterate fck generalizing and talking down to an entire demographic of people?
Wtf is the “gaming community”? There is no gaming community and there never has been, there are millions of separate communities and niches.
you just proved my point.
Whats the state of this emulator? Is it as good as the PS2 one, too heavy on system requeriments?
Reasonable on requirements, compatibility still has ways to go, but overall most big games are fully playable save for a few glitches (source: the internet).
sound??
Oh yeah, last time I’ve checked some people said that some games still have glitchy or no sound at all. Forgot about that.
Even PCSX2 needs some improvements, some games can’t even be played without specific hacks or tweaks, which can vary from game to game…
Try playing any Ratched and Clank game, Klonoa 2, Ridge Racer V, God of War, Burnout Takedown and Revenge for example on PCSX2 and tell me how it went. 🙂
Now compare the nightmare that is PCSX2 to something like Dolphin, just to see how much more improvement it actually needs to be a viable emulator as opposed to just playing games on a PS2 (if you’re comfortable with low resolution games on full HD or above TV screens that is…)
You are right actually, pcsx2 is good enough i guess but there are many such cases of poor péformance and glitches, Maybe i should try some wii games on dolphin.
You know dolphin supports Gamecube games as well, right? It’s a 2 in 1 emulator. 😀
I know, already played Fzero and Metal Gear
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I’m ready to give this a try. I tried the 3DS one and dumping and decrypting the ROMs are a massive PIA. Hopefully it’s not the case with this one.
pretty sure you dont need to be going through all the trouble, but this emulator is way more developed than citra
It’ll basically be the same as for any other system: you just need the hardware to dump the games and some patience. IIRC it took about a half hour to dump a Wii game, so I’d assume that Wii U games will also take a while to dump.
So basically the same amount of annoyance as dumping 3DS games (it’s easy, just time consuming provided your system is already capable of running the necessary homebrew.)
sound?
for you
I keep on meaning to give Cemu a try some time. If it’s able to enhance games’ visual fidelity, e.g. rendering at a higher internal resolution and maybe also improved texture filtering, then I’d love to experience the numerous Wii U games in my collection via emulation.
Is it possible to rip my disc-based Wii U games to ISO for faster loading or do we have to ‘acquire’ the disc images from the internet?
i believe you can rip your own games if you have a blu-ray drive. i may be wrong though. its usually the case with emulators but nintendo always does weird stuff with there media (except wii, and im asuming wii-u) as far as piracy goes.
I forgot about the need for a Blu-ray drive. D’oh! I didn’t bother with getting an optical drive with my PC and my standalone Blu-ray player and dust-gathering PS3 won’t be suitable. Drat.
Btw, Nintendo did “weird stuff” with Wii because its disc-based games can only be read by a very few DVD-ROM drives if seeking to play them via Dolphin.
Haha! A technology that was co-founded by Sony is pure peasantry by definition!
I got a bluray writer, used it about 10times in 6 years. Used it so much the writing capabilities don’t work any more in fact not even sure if it can read stuff. A true PCMR transcends physical media and lives in a state of digital enlightenment . That was the true teachings of buddha!
You can hack and install homebrew programs on your WiiU and rip using the console (though only with a certain firmware iirc).
Their discs uses a proprietary format. Can’t be read using conventional disc readers.
I’ve heard some people saying that it is fairly easy, but is takes a lot of time depending on game size & rip format. And if I understood correctly there is formats that actually hurts performance (something about decompression and all that).
Thanks for being so informative. Yep, it doesn’t surpise me in the least that Wii U discs are made to not be readable by standard PC BRD-ROM drives. Oh well, my loss I suppose.
I’m not comfortable with using hacked firmware in case it bricks the console or Nintendo bars me from online gaming. So if Nintendo won’t enable me to play my legally purchased Wii U games also on my PC then I won’t be feeling guilty about downloading the ISO files of those same games from some shady website.
Well, you’ve paid for them already so… ¯_(?)_/¯
Who’s going to judge? 🙂
Indeed.
I saw your edit about possible bricking the console, and I have to say, like the Wii, the Wii U is p*ss easy to hack without touching the important stuff (because it uses sd card).
It is quite impossible to brick it actually. 🙂
Cheers fella. I may well do so one day if it’s that safe and isn’t detectable by Nintendo because I wouldn’t wish to be barred from online play. No more Mario Kart 8 online is a hideous thought!
Yep, I know Switch will have Mario Kart 8 Deluxe but that console is confirmed to be having mandatory subscription fees to play online, thus signalling Nintendo having joined the peasantry.
Oh the mentioned hack is 100% ban proof aswell. 🙂
Glorious indeed.
Keep in mind the guys behind CEMU are using OpenGL… Imagine if they updated it with a Vulkan backend like how Dolphin got updated with DX12.
The future is looking bright. 🙂
I think they have stated that Vulkan wouldn’t bring much performance improvement to this emu. And DX12 is out of the question as they seem to have plans (no date yet) to release this emu on other platforms like Linux or Mac.
My WiiU is just a paperweight. It’s been fun to mess around with CEMU. Can’t wait for better support!
Bayonetta 2 still runs poor but now 1.7.1 can run Paper Mario: Color Splash which was unplayable in previous builds. improvments in every version for a free emulator, yet AAA devs can’t fix their own games.
Or you could just stop stealing like a child and actually buy your things like a normal law abiding adult.