Functioning Wii U emulator appears online

Cemu, an emulator for the Wii U on Windows, has appeared online. The application emulator for Nintendo’s console is still in early development. The touch input works with the mouse and the buttons on the Wii U GamePad are emulated via the keyboard.

The first reference to the emulator appeared online on the Gbatemp forum. Cemu can read encrypted Wii U images and rpx/rpl files. Nothing has been optimized yet, which means that loading times are long and low frame rates are the rule rather than the exception. It only runs on 64bit Windows 7 and above and uses Opengl 3.3. Only Nvidia video cards seem to give a good picture for the time being. Intel video cards provide strange images and AMD has not tested the developer.

For now, players can only control the emulator with the keyboard and mouse, whose touch input works via the mouse and the buttons and sticks are translated into emulated input from a Wii U GamePad. Its settings cannot be adjusted at this time. The developer plans to post a new version every ‘two weeks’, but time will tell whether that is feasible. The project can be found on Github, among others, but the source code is not public.