Please support Nintendo first so they can continue making great games. Or in the case of Breath of the Wild, on the Switch. My suggestion: you should play Wii U games that are still available should on original hardware. So while it cool to see it running on Cemu, I see it more as a curiosity rather than a serious alternative.
While Breath of the Wild may well become a classic, for the time being, it is a brand new game. The ability to continue to play classic games long after the hardware they ran on has failed or when it has become too expensive to buy used. These sorts of emulators often take years to come. According to their Patreon page, the Cemu authors are receiving a significant amount of money to make this a reality.īut one has to consider: is this what emulation is about? To me, emulation is about preservation. Now, just three years into its life, definitive proof has been shared of a functioning Wii U emulator, which the creators are calling Cemu. It will likely be playable without glitches by spring 2017. For Cemu, the single core performance of your CPU (and by extension RAM speed) is the most important factor for fullspeed emulation. The authors of Cemu seem to be working hard on resolving issues. Keep in mind that emulation always comes with overhead and requires a higher performance system than the emulated system. EditorialĪs you can see above, Cemu can run the Wii U version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Up-to-date information and troubleshooting tips are also available on the /r/cemu subreddit. The wiki page will tell you whether the game works for other people and what hardware they used. Clicking on a game title will take you to the wiki page for that game. This is the games compatibility list for Cemu:.