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{{Infobox console|title = Nintendo Wii U|logo = Wii U.png|developer = [[:Nintendo]]|type = [[File:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]]|generation = [[:Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles|Eighth generation]]|release = 2012|discontinued = 2017|predecessor = [[Wii emulators|Wii U.png]]|thumbsuccessor = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|The Nintendo Wii USwitch]]|emulated = {{✓}}}} The '''Wii U''' is an eighth-generation console released by Nintendo in on November 18, 2012at {{Inflation|USD|349.99|2012}}. It has a Tri-Core IBM PowerPC CPU at 1.24 GHz with 2GB of RAM. It has an 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.

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;[[Cemu]]:Can launch A closed-source Wii U emulator created in October 2015 and play most major commercial is regularly updated every 2 to 5 weeks. It can run a sizeable amount of games , with 13% of the tested ones (such Which is about 55% of the known games for the system) listed as perfect and 36% as WW:HD/MK8/SM3DW/BOTW) with minor glitches playable (such as audio With varying degrees of glitches in WW:HD) or major glitches (such , which amounts to 49% of the tested ones, as Bokoblin eyes on AMD being broken in BOTW)of date 2021.8.29 and the version 1.25.2.;[[Decaf]]:A An open-source research project for Wii U emulation. It's able to boot some commercial games.;Kinnay:This emulates the Wii U processors and hardware at the lowest level. It's currently able to emulate all the way through boot1, IOSU, and Cafe OS up to the Wii U menu. Written by the main CEMU developer exjam and kinnay.

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 are not going to add interested in adding Wii U support to Dolphin. {{Nintendo}}

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