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{{Infobox console|title = Nintendo Wii U|logo =Wii U.png|developer =THE GNU/LINUX GUIDE OF EMULATION[[: *buntu EditionNintendo]]|type =[[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]]|generation =[[:Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles|Eighth generation]]|release =2012|discontinued =2017|predecessor =Info for newfriends=[[Wii emulators|Wii]]|successor =[[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]|emulated ={{✓}}}}A big difference between Windows and GNU/Linux The '''Wii U''' is that when you want to install an eighth-generation console released by Nintendo on November 18, 2012 at {{Inflation|USD|349.99|2012}}. It has a Tri-Core IBM PowerPC CPU at 1.24 GHz with 2GB of RAM. It has a program on Linux you don't have AMD Radeon GPU. It is the first console by Nintendo to go output to high definition (HD) resolutions, such as 720p and 1080p. It includes a tablet-like controller, known as the site[[wikipedia:Wii_U_Gamepad|Wii U GamePad]], to provide certain additional gameplay. Notably, download an installer and install it (except in some specific cases)can play all [[Wii emulators|Wii]] games as well as support the Wii Remote controllers for native Wii U games.

There's something called repositories, which are like "app stores". You use a package manager to search for programs in the repositories, install them, update them and uninstall them. Your Linux distribution comes with their official repositories already configured so you can get programs for there, but they don't always have every good emulator, and most of the time if they have it it's an old version. So what we are going to do is add more repositories that have up-to-date emulators. Once these repositories are added you will be able to install the emulators like with any other program and update them with the rest of your programs. All this is cool, but there will be some emulators that you won't find on repositories, so you'll have to use different methods to get them, but don't worry, I'll explain it later.===IMPORTANT!===This guide is focused on *buntu distros like Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and other Ubuntu derivatives such as Linux Mint. Repositories shown here WILL NOT work on other distros (Debian, Arch, Fedora etc), but you can find the same emulators for your distro somewhere else, either in their own repos (either official or unofficial) or by compiling them. ===How to add the repositories===To add this repos you will have to run the next command on a terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa-name...where the ppa:user/ppa-name are the ones you'll find in the table for the repository you want to add. After you add all the repos you want you'll have to run the next command to update the packages database: sudo apt-get updateOnce that's done you will have all the packages from those repos available to install.===How to install, update and uninstall emulators after the repos are added=Emulators==For this task I recommend you to install Synaptic. That program will be a lot of help. Once you have it installed you can choose to organize packages by source and see all the repos you have available. See what emulators each of the repos you added has and install the emulators you want.===Repositories List===The "Type" column describes how often the emulators are updated on these repositories. Testing repositories usually get updates quite often (some have daily updates) while Stable repositories usually get updates after a few months gap, and Abandoned repositories are, well, abandoned. {| class="wikitable"|-! scopestyle="col"|Emulators it has! scope="col"|ppatext-align:user/ppa-name! scope="col"|Type! scope="colcenter;"|Latest Emulator Version! scope="col"|Supported Ubuntu Versions! scope="col"|ARM(<nowiki>*1</nowiki>)|-|rowspan="2"|[[RetroArch]]|[https://launchpad.net/~libretro/+archive/ubuntu/testing ppa:libretro/testing]|Testing|1.6.0|14.04,16.04,16.10,17.04<nowiki>(*2)</nowiki>|✓|-|[https://launchpad.net/~libretro/+archive/ubuntu/stable ppa:libretro/stable]|Stable|1.6.0|14.04,16.04,16.10,17.04<nowiki>(*2)</nowiki>|✓

! scope="col"|[[VBA-M]]Name! scope="col"|Platform(s)! scope="col"|Latest Version! scope="col"|Compatibility! scope="col"|[https://launchpad.net<abbr title="Free/~sergioLibre and Open-br2/+archive/ubuntuSource Software">FLOSS</vbam-trunk ppa:sergio-br2/vbam-trunk]abbr>! scope="col"|StableActive! scope="col"|2.0.0[[Recommended Emulators|14.04,16.04,16.10|✗Recommended]]

! colspan="7"|[[PCSX2]]|[https://launchpad.net/~gregory-hainautPC /+archive/ubuntu/pcsx2.official.ppa ppa:gregory-hainaut/pcsx2.official.ppa]|Stable|1.5.0|14.04,16.04,16.10|✗x86

|rowspan="2"|[[MAMECemu]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[httpshttp://launchpad.net/~ccemu.falco/+archiveinfo/ubuntu/mame ppa:cindex.falco/mamehtml#download {{CemuVer}}]|StableMedium|0.185{{✗}} ||{{✓}} |16.04,16.10,17.04|✗{{✓}}

|[[Decaf]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://launchpad.net/~cgithub.falco/+archivecom/ubuntu/alpha ppa:c.falcodecaf-emu/alphadecaf-emu Git]<nowiki>(*4)</nowiki>|TestingLow|0.186{{✓}} ||{{✓}} |17.04|{{✗}}

|[[Dolphin]]Kinnay|[https://launchpad.net/~dolphin-emu/+archive/ubuntu/ppa ppa:dolphin-emu/ppa]align=left|Stable/Testing{{Icon|5.0+git-r201706100002-0a69331-32|16.04,16.10,17.04|✓(arm64)|-|[[PCSX-Reloaded]]Linux}}|[https://launchpadgithub.net/~rebuntu16com/+archivekinnay/ubuntu/pcsxWii-reloaded-svn+unofficial ppa:rebuntu16/pcsxU-reloadedFirmware-svn+unofficialEmulator Git]|Stable/Testing|1.9.94+git2017.02.28-16.13-1~ppa|16.04,16.10|✗|-|rowspan="2"|[[PPSSPP]]|[https://launchpad.net/~ppsspp/+archive/ubuntu/testing ppa:ppsspp/testing]|Testing|1.4.1-r201706100037-dfdf548-72|14.04,16.04,16.10,17.04Low|{{✓}} |-|[https://launchpad.net/~ppsspp/+archive/ubuntu/stable ppa:ppsspp/stable]|Stable|1.4.1-r201705240041-e776eff-72|14.04,16.04,16.10,17.04|{{✓|-|[[ScummVM]]|[https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/ Official Site (.deb)](*5)|Stable|1.9.0|16,04,16.10<nowiki>(*6)</nowiki>|✗|-|[[higan]]|[http://www.playdeb.net/game/higan PlayDeb](*7)|Stable|102}} |16.04,16.10,17.04|{{✗|-|[[DeSmuME]]|rowspan="8"|[https://launchpad.net/~random-stuff/+archive/ubuntu/ppa ppa:random-stuff/ppa]|Stable|0.9.11+r1~4|12.04,14.04,15.04,15.10,16.04,16.10(*8)|✓|-|[[Mupen64Plus]]|Testing|2.5-7+r630~7|14.04,15.04,15.10,16.04(*9)|✓|-|[[PokeMini]]|Stable|0.60|14.04,15.04,15.10,16.04,16.10,17.04|✓|-|[[Gambatte]]|Stable|0.5.0 r577 (git)|12.04,14.04,15.04,15.10,16.04,16.10,17.04|✓|-|[[Reicast]]|Abandoned|r7-rc (git)|14.04,15.04,15.10|✓|-|[[Supermodel]]|Stable|0.3a~WIP+r605~22|14.04,16.04,16.10,17.04|✓|-|[[mGBA]]|Testing|0.6 (git)|14.04,16.04,16.10,17.04|✓|-|[[Snes9x]]|Stable|1.54.1-r201706050117-d441856-3|14.04,16.04,16.10,17.04|✓|-|ScummVM, [[Mednafen]], [[FCEUX]], [[ZSNES]],<br />old versions of other emulators|Official Ubuntu repos|(<nowiki>*3</nowiki>)|Varies|Varies|Varies}}

<nowiki>*1</nowiki>===Comparisons===;[[Cemu]]:Repository with ARM support might work with HP HardfloatA closed-source Wii U emulator created in October 2015 and is regularly updated every 2 to 5 weeks. It can launch or play a lot of commercial games, odroidalmost 20% of titles are perfect, Raspberry Pi 235% playable which sums to 55% of total titles, etcwith varying degrees of glitches. <nowiki>*2</nowiki>;[[Decaf]]:Core availability may vary between Ubuntu versionsAn open-source research project for Wii U emulation. <nowiki>*3</nowiki>:Only updated once per Ubuntu versionIt's able to boot some commercial games. <nowiki>*4</nowiki>;Kinnay:Some MAME builds may also appear in [https://launchpadThis emulates the Wii U processors and hardware at the lowest level.net/~cIt's currently able to emulate all the way through boot1, IOSU and Cafe OS up to the Wii U menu.falco/+archive/ubuntu/trashbin ppa:c.falco/trashbin]Written by the main CEMU developer exjam and kinnay.===Dolphin===<nowiki>*5</nowiki>:ScummVM Official Site provides the raw Debian packages (.deb) which can be installed by using tools such as ''gdebi'You might have read about an unofficial branch of [[Dolphin]] with Wii U support — but don't get your hopes up. <nowiki>*6</nowiki>While the [[wikipedia:Ubuntu 17.04 has ScummVM 1.9.0 PowerPC|PowerPC]] architecture family in the official Ubuntu repository. <nowiki>*7</nowiki>:PlayDeb Wii U is not a PPA the same as the [[Wii emulators|Wii]] and must use different commands [[GameCube emulators|GameCube]] (this fact alone was the reason why Wii emulation was added to add their repository. See Dolphin, originally GameCube-only), this support is nothing more than the [http://www.playdeb.net/updates#how_to_install how file viewer features (region, internal name, various info, list of files and folders inside ISO and a way to extract them) being expanded to install] section for more information. <nowiki>*8</nowiki>:Ubuntu 17Wii U disc images.04 Nothing has DeSmuME 0.9.11 in been done on the official Ubuntu repository. <nowiki>*9</nowiki>:Ubuntu 16.10 actual emulation front as far as Dolphin is concerned, and newer the Dolphin developers have Mupen64Plus 2.5 in the official Ubuntu repositorysaid that they're not going to add Wii U support to Dolphin.

== Links ==[[Category:Consoles]]* [https[Category://doc.ubuntuEighth-fr.org/emulation French Guidegeneration video game consoles]][[Category:Nintendo consoles]][[Category:Wii U emulators]] on Ubuntu.org