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After years of speculations ever since the source code for the popular Wii U emulator, Cemu, became open source back in August 2022 with their v2.0 release, users began wondering when would Cemu become available for other devices or systems, like Linux or Android.

This week, a user by the name of XForYouX on GitHub released an unofficial port of Cemu for Android devices on September 7th, 2024, based on the initial Android port by SSimco, with promising results, albeit with some slight graphical issues. The unofficial port supports Android devices from 11 and onwards, while any device running Android 10 and below is currently unsupported.

The number of changes for this specific port is quite substantial, and from the release page on the Github repository the following changes were made over the official Cemu version:

• Implement DCBZ
• Update xbyak
• Update recompiler tests
• Update xbyak dep
• Add x64 check for ATTR_MS_ABI
• Cleanup code
• Update deprecated attribute
• Send touch events to Input manager
• Fixed gamepad volume enable/disable toggle
• Fix count cycles macro for count cycles > 4095
• Updated overlay settings
• Added options to show the gamepad & added a menu when in game
• Added option to show graphic packs for installed games only
• Fixed not being able to resize some buttons
• Added support for motion
• Updated icon
• Refactored game list code & added option to remove & add multiple game paths
• Removed unused icon
• Refactored fileutils code
• Updated android workflow to create storefile only if the secret is available

The official Cemu emulator also saw an update yesterday, with the latest version being v2.2, although there's no mention of any upcoming official Android version given how the emulator's JIT was made specifically for amd64/x86_64 machines, and the JIT would need a heavy rewrite to make it work on ARM devices.

It's still unknown whether or not the official Cemu development team would implement this specific Android port fork into their mainstream source code, although the Cemu team did release an FAQ some time ago regarding an Android port.

Unofficial Cemu Android GitHub repository
Official Cemu GitHub repository

 

[Lostbhoy]

A few days ago someone asked the rhetorical question "Can you play Wii U games on Switch?" over on that news thread about Switch 2 backwards compatibility.

Apparently, it won't be long until you can... though results may vary.

You can already play wii u games on switch.... They ported every last mother fucking one of them to it!! The ones that are worth playing anyway.

I downloaded the apk... Was gonna try it out then thought exactly that statement! The wii u has nothing, its no wonder I haven't touched my real one in aaaaaages.

 

[Axido]

You can already play wii u games on switch.... They ported every last mother fucking one of them to it!! The ones that are worth playing anyway.

That's almost exactly the point I made towards that user I was talking about.

Wasn't enough to convince that fella that you can play Wii U games on the Switch.

 

[MayorBryce]

You can already play wii u games on switch.... They ported every last mother fucking one of them to it!! The ones that are worth playing anyway.

Then why are people still complaining about Wind Waker/Twilight Princess not being on Switch? There's no capacity, modded, emulated or otherwise, to play these games at full speed on Switch. I'm not saying that having Cemu on Android on Switch will make up for it, since it still won't be full speed, but you can't blame the person for wishing.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Then why are people still complaining about Wind Waker/Twilight Princess not being on Switch? There's no capacity, modded, emulated or otherwise, to play these games at full speed on Switch. I'm not saying that having Cemu on Android on Switch will make up for it, since it still won't be full speed, but you can't blame the person for wishing.

Good point caller... I really did forget about those two!

But... 2 titles?? There are hd mods with QoL additions to both the gamecube versions which surpass the wii u versions, both look and run great in Dolphin on my phone so I would say, no need really?! For me anyway but yeah, I would agree those two shoulda been ported to switch by now, officially or otherwise!

I redact my previous statement!

 

[Neal Cullum]

Version 8 beta is out now

 

[Jayinem]

You can already play wii u games on switch.... They ported every last mother fucking one of them to it!! The ones that are worth playing anyway.

I downloaded the apk... Was gonna try it out then thought exactly that statement! The wii u has nothing, its no wonder I haven't touched my real one in aaaaaages.

Where's Paper Mario Color Splash and Xenoblade Chronicles X, those are pretty good games but still exclusive to Wii U. Actually they're on my PC via Cemu.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Where's Paper Mario Color Splash and Xenoblade Chronicles X, those are pretty good games but still exclusive to Wii U. Actually they're on my PC via Cemu.

Neither are worth playing on any console imo.

Hence why they maybe weren't ported? Suppose its just personal preference... For every game I may like, someone else may not!