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Revision as of 15:55, 21 July 2016

The Nintendo Wii U

The Wii U is an eighth-generation console released by Nintendo in 2012. It is the first console by Nintendo to output to high-definition (HD) resolutions, such as 720p and 1080p. It includes a tablet-like controller, known as the Wii U GamePad, to provide certain additional gameplay. Notably, it can play all Wii games, as well as supporting the Wii Remote controllers for native Wii U games.

Emulators

Name Operating System(s) Latest Version Compatibility Active Open-Source Recommended
Cemu Windows v1.5.3 Medium
Decaf Windows N/A Low

Comparisons

  • Cemu can launch and play commercial titles, but is at an early stage of development, having little performance optimization, very basic audio emulation, and numerous bugs. But, it can run some games full-speed.
  • Decaf is a research project for Wii U emulation. It is able to boot some commercial games.

Dolphin

You might have read about an unofficial branch of Dolphin with Wii U support - don't get your hopes up. While the PowerPC architecture family in the WiiU is the same as the Wii and GC (this fact alone was the reason why Wii emulation was added to Dolphin, originally GC-only), this support is nothing more than the file viewer features (region, internal name, various info, list of files and folders inside ISO and a way to extract them) being expanded to Wii U disc images. Nothing has been done on the actual emulation front as far as Dolphin is concerned, and the Dolphin developers have said that they're not going to add Wii U support to Dolphin.

Running Games in CEMU

Before opeining the ISO

You'll first need to fill in the "keys.txt" file in CEMU's directory. It has a sample line with a bogus key and a comment, which you may as well delete.

Your file must have many lines like this, one for the Wii U Common Key (D7B00402659BA2ABD2CB0DB27FA2B656), and one line for the Game Key of each game. Sharing these keys isn't exactly safe legally, but romsites at least share the Game ones. Note that for games using the Loadiine format, you won't need a Game Key at all, but those will need CEMU versions from 1.4.0 onwards.

Your iso must be either uncompressed, compressed using WUD format, or in Loadiine (for versions 1.4.0 onwards) to boot in CEMU.

Controls

  • Gamepad: Gamepad touch control emulation can be done by holding TAB then using the mouse. Microphone is mapped to a button for now, and tilting doesn't work yet.
  • Classic Controller