Cemu is a Wii U emulator capable of running most Wii U games and homebrew. It is written in C/C++ and is actively developing new features and fixes to improve compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu is currently only available for 64-bit Windows and Linux devices.

download

The latest version of Cemu can be downloaded from Github Releases or Cemu’s website.

Cemu is currently only available in a portable format, so no installation is required other than unzipping it somewhere safe.

build instructions

Windows

prerequisites:

• The latest version of Visual Studio 2022 with the CMake tools component
• git

instruct:

1. run git clone --recursive https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu
2. start up Cemu/generate_vs_solution.bat
3. Wait until done, then open in Visual Studio Cemu/build/Cemu.sln
4. Right click on the “CemuBin” project -> set as startup project
5. Then build the solution and once done you can run and debug it

Linux

To compile Cemu, you need the latest compiler and STL that supports C++20

For ubuntu and most derivatives:

1. sudo apt install -y libgtk-3-dev libsecret-1-dev libgcrypt20-dev libsystemd-dev freeglut3-dev clang-12 nasm ninja-build
2. run git clone --recursive https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu
3. cd Cemu
4. mkdir build && cd build
5. cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang-12 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang++-12 -G Ninja
6. ninja