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Wii U Emulator Cemu Can Now Play Super Mario 3D World [Nearly] Fullspeed on PC

RealityCheque said:
AFAIK that is something that may never happen. Something to do with the proprietary wireless connection with the gamepad. It'll be interesting to see what kind of second screen hacks come up over time. I'm thinking some sort of way to bring a phone or tablet into the loop.
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Hasn't the gamepad been hacked for other applications or am I misremembering?
 
SoulUnison said:
Yeah, its borderline impossible to find a copy of Super Mario 3D World now, in 2016.
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If Nintendo released a game with such an unsteady framerate on WiiU, most people would be very disappointed. Along with many graphical glitches many WiiU Games on this EMU have.

It is still a proof of Concept, and not a good alternative to play WiiU Games.
 
chaosblade said:
The "current gen" argument doesn't make any sense, by the time this emulator is usable the Wii U is going to be long since dead. Nobody is going to use it now just because one game is kind of playable (but looks terrible).

It's a great milestone for the emulator though..
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They're saying it runs at full speed.
 
What kind of PC would you need to run this game at full speed?
 
Whoa, that's honestly unexpected. Awesome.

And for the people too busy concern trolling, I buy all the games I emulate, and don't particularly like being called a pirate by people who don't know shit.
 
Demanufacture said:
How the...I can barely run PS2 games smoothly!
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Yeah, the progress and quality of emulation of Wii U games is impressive. PS2 emulation took forever to get to a decent place for most titles.

I can't wait until we're able to play something like Bayonetta 2 with ridiculous settings.
 
PGamer said:
A new build of Cemu (1.4.0) was recently announced and will be coming out in the next 24 hours. Along with the announcement was some game previews including a video of Super Mario 3D World:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0FJyzQVjc4

Here you have it folks. A Wii U game is now starting to run at fullspeed on PC.
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FTFY.

Still lighting looks off, doesn't address higher resolutions and what to do about a second screen, is it impressive sure, it is better than a Wii U console, fuck no.

When I can run everything at 1080P on up and use a tablet to give me the functionality of the pad, then we will have a useful emulator.

But progress is always nice...
 
Isn't the progress so fast because the Wii U uses a similar architecture than the Wii?
Also have read that it was well documented and cracked open via reverse engineering.
I guess that is the reason why progress is so fast too.
 
https://streamable.com/853r

Mirror from the developer

cyberheater said:
Well I've got a VR capable PC so I hope it's beefy enough.
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Video is done on a 4790k

Novum_Veritas said:
Thanks for the info, but I think that won't take long until we see the games in higher internal resolution.
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The funny part is that there's basically currently nothing in the way of options aside from an experiential option for multicore support. Really cuts off the "What are the best options for X?" discussion.
 
Amazing progress. I would have to think it's because the Wii U is really just three Gamecube processors duct taped together, making it that much easier.

Aeana is letting you emu=piracy folks off easy. If Dragona were still around she would of banned the whole lot of you.
 
Dark-Cloudz said:
I'll happily retract all of the posts/get banned if that's not ok here.

I just don't get why it's ok.
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The same fucking reason its ok to buy games on Wii U and play them there, despite being possible to pirate them. Do you think all Wii U owners are pirates too because the possibility is there?
 
jediyoshi said:
Misremembering, there's homebrew for the Wii U and it can extend to the gamepad. Use of the gamepad outside of the Wii U isn't really a thing aside from proof of concepts.
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This is probably what I'm remembering. Shame, would love to see emulation with the gamepad.
 
Incredible how fast this is developing, devs are doing great work. Is there any particular reason why things are progressing so quickly?
 
LordOcidax said:
Why??? Is Nintendo supporting the emuletion or something? Why their opinion about emulation has to be banable? Explain please... is their opinion and he is not trolling... You have to respect that.
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Nope, is nothing else than shiposting and derailing of a thread which is bannable. this is not a thread to discuss your idiotic views on emulation
 
dancrane212 said:
Incredible how fast this is developing, devs are doing great work. Is there any particular reason why things are progressing so quickly?
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Dolphin is a highly advanced, highly streamlined, very well documented emulator and the Wii U is basically a Wii on steroids (same reason Dolphin started emulating Wii games so quick when it was a gamecube emulator).

That's not to say that there aren't a lot of changes, or that the Cemu guys aren't amazing (they are in spades!) but they didn't have to build the emu from 100% scratch.

I don't think Cemu started as a fork of Dolphin, but using it as a reference for a lot of the hardware certainly helped.

BernardoOne said:
Nope, is nothing else than shiposting and derailing of a thread which is bannable. this is not a thread to discuss your idiotic views on emulation
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STAHP!!!

Aeana said:
It's clearly not full speed and doesn't look 100% correct, but the progress is absolutely astounding nonetheless. I expect we're still a ways away from the emulator being in a state that anybody would choose it over the real hardware, so everybody concern trolling in this thread needs to relax. I'm not going to bother cleaning up the thread before this post, but consider it a warning for anything that follows.
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OnionPowder said:
How is preservation not legit? Because the emulator is made now instead of later? They're going to be continually working on it for the next 10+ years based on the previous emulators.
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Actually this EMU is a little sketchy because it's not open source. The people responsible for it are keeping it locked down so they can profit from it at a later date,
 
cyberheater said:
In a way. It's good that the WiiU CPU was so comparatively weak.
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I don't see why, if the system was powerful enough to run these games at 1080p/60fps with AA there would be little (little is strong, perhaps less of?) reason to play them on a PC, no? People are more inclined to play these on PC because of the weak hardware not in spite of it.

Goes without saying that there's many other reason why one would emulate but generally getting better looking games is a major one.
 
jdstorm said:
Actually this EMU is a little sketchy because it's not open source. The people responsible for it are keeping it locked down so they can profit from it at a later date,
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By all means, share the source of your information on this... Lots of emulators start off as close source projects and some remain that way, that doesn't mean there is a goal to profit, or that profit is even inherently wrong when they put in so much work (see PPSSPP and it's 'gold' version which offers nothing more than the chance to support the devs).
 
KojiKnight said:
Dolphin is a highly advanced, highly streamlined, very well documented emulator and the Wii U is basically a Wii on steroids (same reason Dolphin started emulating Wii games so quick when it was a gamecube emulator).

That's not to say that there aren't a lot of changes, or that the Cemu guys aren't amazing (they are in spades!) but they didn't have to build the emu from 100% scratch.

I don't think Cemu started as a fork of Dolphin, but using it as a reference for a lot of the hardware certainly helped.
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Aeana said:
The hardware is a descendant of well-studied hardware (GC, Wii).
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Didn't realise the Wii U was still an iteration of that same hardware. I suppose that makes perfect sense with the vWii in the Wii U though - I had assumed it was more of a PS2 inside a PS3 situation.

Thanks for the info!
 
I'm curious what kind of considerations the people behind this have to make in terms of present and future hardware. Intel's public statement that CPUs aren't going to be getting faster at the pace they have in the past would make me think these guys are under more pressure to optimize this emulator around hardware that's currently available than emulation teams in the past.
 
javac said:
I don't see why, if the system was powerful enough to run these games at 1080p/60fps with AA there would be little (little is strong, perhaps less of?) reason to play them on a PC, no? People are more inclined to play these on PC because of the weak hardware not in spite of it.

Goes without saying that there's many other reason why one would emulate but generally getting better looking games is a major one.
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Resolution doesn't stop at 1080p. There is also AA and a more stable framerate among other things that can be achieved with an emulator.
 
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