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The '''Wii U''' is 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 AMD Radeon GPU. 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 [[wikipedia:Wii_U_Gamepad|Wii U GamePad]], to provide certain additional gameplay. Notably, it can play all [[Wii emulators|Wii]] games as well as support the Wii Remote controllers for native Wii U games.
==Emulators==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|Compatibility
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|Open-Source
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
! colspan="7"|PC / x86
|-
|[[Cemu]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[http://cemu.info/index.html#download {{CemuVer}}]
|Medium
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|[[Decaf]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/decaf-emu/decaf-emu Git]
|Low
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|}
===Comparisons===
;[[Cemu]]:A 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 with varying degrees of glitches.
;[[Decaf]]:An open-source research project for Wii U emulation. It's able to boot some commercial games.
===Dolphin===
You might have read about an unofficial branch of [[Dolphin]] with Wii U support — but don't get your hopes up. While the [[wikipedia:PowerPC|PowerPC]] architecture family in the Wii U is the same as the [[Wii emulators|Wii]] and [[GameCube emulators|GameCube]] (this fact alone was the reason why Wii emulation was added to Dolphin, originally GameCube-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.
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[[Category:Consoles]]
[[Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles]]
[[Category:Nintendo consoles]]
[[Category:Wii U emulators]]
