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What emulator is being used for the Wii U and where are you getting BOTW from?

The emulator is CEMU and I'm guessing the Zelda iso is available on the high seas.

It's fairly easy to rip your own Wii U discs with a Wii U console these days.

Absolutely incredible that we've reached the point where a game released on console last month is now playable on an emulator.

Karl wrote:Absolutely incredible that we've reached the point where a game released on console last month is now playable on an emulator.

Is it really? The games are developed on PCs after all. I am curious though how people put these emulators together in the first place, have they used leaked code from the devkits? I find it difficult to believe it can be done without that happening.

Karl wrote:Absolutely incredible that we've reached the point where a game released on console last month is now playable on an emulator.

Isn't Wii U hardware only about Xbox 360 x 1.5? Modern gaming PCs should be able to brute force that to work.

Still is funny though!

I actually think the Wii U will be the last really difficult console to emulate (along with the PS3, which I hear still isn't quite there yet), so it's really cool to see the problem basically solved. It was less powerful than its contemporaries for sure, but its architecture doesn't map well to your usual gaming PC set up so that's what made it tough.

The PS4 and XBO are much more 'PC-like' internally, and my understanding is that the Switch has a fairly standard tablet architecture -- those are a somewhat simpler case, mostly about waiting for PC hardware to git gud (& I expect to see Switch emulation sooner rather than later, to be honest).

This certainly throw up a moral quandry. I would really like to play BotW but I'm not willing (or able) to shell out for a WiiU or a Switch.

What would Space Jesus do?

I thought that said Space Jebus. Haven't seen him about for years, wonder if he's on another forum?

Brerlappin wrote:The open world fatigue is real tho, 2 shrines into BoTW and im already like "oh wow look, a ubisoft tower"
Give me a linear Zelda any day of the week. Open world can strawberry floating do one.

That was one of my reservations in the lead up to BotW, despite how fun it sounded in previews. Over 40 hours later, I'm still excited and I've barely touched the main story.

It probably helps that there aren't many quest icons in BotW and I'm adding markers to the map myself to remind me of things that I want to explore later when I'm stronger or figured out how to solve a puzzle. Instead of being a checklist surrounded by an open world, it's an open world that I want to explore to find its secrets.

Karl wrote:I actually think the Wii U will be the last really difficult console to emulate (along with the PS3, which I hear still isn't quite there yet), so it's really cool to see the problem basically solved. It was less powerful than its contemporaries for sure, but its architecture doesn't map well to your usual gaming PC set up so that's what made it tough.

It's the same reason why Sega Saturn emulation is still far from perfect, the hardware isn't anything like what is commonly seen in modern PCs.

Even in its day the Saturn was a difficult machine to work on and very few developers (other than Sega's internal teams) could get decent performance from it.

Any of you played Yoshi in Sonic 2? It's really good.

Pedz wrote:I thought that said Space Jebus. Haven't seen him about for years, wonder if he's on another forum?

I thought that too

He lurks, I don't think he's anywhere else though...

That's cool that he still lurks, nice guy. Used to play 360 together with others from Gamesradar.

So there's a PS3 emulator doing a reasonable job of Persona 5 already

Dowbocop wrote:

Pedz wrote:I thought that said Space Jebus. Haven't seen him about for years, wonder if he's on another forum?

I thought that too

He lurks, I don't think he's anywhere else though...

He once came to my shop to buy a Blu Ray film off me with his missus

Think it was Leon

Brerlappin wrote:Yesssss got it working at 30fps and with the 5K graphics pack

Um...how? Do tell...

Brerlappin wrote:Yesssss got it working at 30fps and with the 5K graphics pack

Hrrrnnnnng

I'll definitely go back to botw when the emulator is running flawlessly. For now it's 100% on the wii u, but God I wish I could have that resolution bump right now as my pc is more than up to it.

Brerlappin wrote:Sorry, i wasnt trying to be a cock tease, i was on my phone after posting that and couldnt find the actual tweak to post it

This should net a good FPS boost

-In 1.7.4 you can use disableGPUfence via the editing the correct file in your Gameprofiles folder under CEMU. Locate the one that corresponds to your game: USA is 00050000101c9400, for EU 00050000101c9500, and for JPN 00050000101C9300.

Open it up and add this to it:
Code:

[CPU]
emulateSinglePrecision = true

[Graphics]
disableGPUFence = true

First time using CEMU so is there a away of having it run at 1080p? Checked the Gameprofiles and they were already set to those values. Do you also use Vsync?





Looks flipping lovely but there are quite a few dips from 30fps. 4k pack is enabled too.