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;[[Cemu]]:An under-in-development Wii U emulator created in October 2015 and be regularly updated every 2 to 5 weeks. It can launch or play a lot of commercial games with varying degrees of glitches.
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;[[Cemu]]:A closed-source Wii U emulator created in October 2015 and be regularly updated every 2 to 5 weeks. It can launch or play a lot of commercial games with varying degrees of glitches.
 
;[[Decaf]]:A research project for Wii U emulation. It's able to boot some commercial games.
 
;[[Decaf]]:A research project for Wii U emulation. It's able to boot some commercial games.
  

Revision as of 20:12, 16 March 2018

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 support the Wii Remote controllers for native Wii U games.

Emulators

PC
Name Operating System(s) Latest Version Compatibility Active Open-Source Recommended
Cemu Windows 2.0 Medium
Decaf Windows, Linux Git Low

Comparisons

Cemu
A closed-source Wii U emulator created in October 2015 and be regularly updated every 2 to 5 weeks. It can launch or play a lot of commercial games with varying degrees of glitches.
Decaf
A 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 PowerPC architecture family in the Wii U is the same as the Wii and 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.