For as long as there are consoles there'll be hackers and programmers attempting to reverse engineer them for emulation. Due to all of the work platform holders put into closing off their systems it ...

A little while ago we shared news of Cemu, a functioning Wii U emulator. Early doors it could barely boot up the opening artwork of a game, and the slow nature of progress on such projects points to ...

With the impending arrival of the Nintendo Switch, Wii U is fading into the abyss. While that means Wii U game releases will be sparse, you can now play existing games at higher resolutions with the ...

Cemu, the popular Wii-U emulator, has just received a new update. The Cemu 1.8.0b update promises, even more, improvement with a particular emphasis on driving up frame rates. The crowd-funded ...

After months of fakes, a proper Wii U emulator is finally available for download—even if it is still rather janky. According to the developer, Cemu contains “basically no optimizations whatsoever,” no ...

Anthony Taormina is an original member of the Game Rant team, having been part of the publication for 15 years. He coordinates content for all facets of the site and manages its social media, PR, and ...

An experimental graphics emulator for the Wii U is now capable of outputting several games in ultra high-definition 4K resolution. Version 1.7.0. of Cemu, the emulator available on Windows PC, has ...

The latest version of Wii U emulator CEMU now supports multi-threaded CPUs, with CEMU v1.11.3 adding support for multi-threaded CPU emulation, amongst other new features and improvements. CEMU v1.11.3 ...

Since CPU emulation is the most taxing part of Cemu, all games benefit from these optimizations to some degree. To put things into perspective, I did a bunch of quick FPS comparisons (1.7.0d versus ...