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{{for|other emulators that run on Wii U hardware|Emulators on Wii U}}  The '''Wii U''' is an eighth-generation console released by Nintendo on November 18, 2012 , at {{Inflation|USD|349.99|2012}}. It has a Tri3-Core core IBM PowerPC CPU at 1.24 GHz with 2GB 2 GBs of RAM. It has and an AMD Radeon GPU. It is the first console by Nintendo to output 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]] <small class="plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;">([https://compat.cemu.info compatibility])</small>:A closedAn open-source Wii U emulator created in October 2015 and is , regularly updated every 2 to 5 weeks. It can run a sizeable amount of games, with 1312% of the tested ones listed as Perfect (Which is about 55can be played with no issues) and 40% of the known games for the system) tested ones listed as perfect and 37% as playable Playable (With varying degrees of can be played through with minor audio or graphical glitches). As of October 2022, which amounts to 50% of Cemu is no longer in the tested onesexperimental stage, and a macOS port has been released. ;[[Decaf]]:An open-source research project for Wii U emulation. It's able to Can boot some commercial games. It is no longer in development as of August 2022. ;Kinnay:This emulates 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 leading Decaf developer developers, 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, . It was 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 are not interested in adding Wii U support to Dolphin.