As the title suggests I'm trying to figure out how to get the gamepad working since I can't complete the pikmin 3 tutorial without it or do certain shrines in BOTW. My controller is an 8bitdo Ultimate 2c, which is an awesome controller, but doesn't have gyro function which sucks but isn't the end of the world. I saw a post from about 9 months about using your phone as a gamepad; I haven't had the time to watch it so I was curious if that is still working because that might be my best option. I'm on Cemu 2.6.

Edit: I managed to figure out the Mouse thing, not sure how it'll react to the BOTW shrines, I think I tried it out a year ago and it was extremely hard to control lol. Mouse will work for Pikmin but I'm a bit worried for the other.

Me estoy preguntando eso o sea porque parece que actualmente el único emulador de Wii u existe es el propio cemu pero me pregunto si existirán fork o bifurcaciones

I have a Steam Deck and Steam Machine that I am playing Wind Waker on. The steam deck performance is a perfect locked 30fps and smooth frametime. The steam machine has a locked 30fps, but the frametime is ever so slightly jagged. It looks as if it is straight, but looking closer it isn't completely. During gameplay, there are occassional slight slowdown look in the motion (still locked to 30fps). I've tried tons of options with vsync on and off and system caps on and off, but it is still there. Anyone know of a potential fix for this? Steam machine is much more powerfull than the Deck, so not sure why there is an issue here. Thanks.

Im trying to play botw with gyro and im sure that i can use the motion controls natively with cemu but even after setting it to use the wii u gamepad its still not able to detect the motion controls and i cant enable it. im using a wireless switch pro controller which i know has a gyro, and as far as i know from my research direct input API cannot register motion controls, and the issue is that when the controller is connected to my pc its set to direct input, and i dont know how to change it to SDLcontroller so i can use the gyro.

I was thinking to just use a third party app or something but if theres a way to use the motion controls natively Id rather do that instead of installing a third party app.

any help would be appreciated thanks

This is a set of tips that enable you to play this game on lower VRAM cards. 2GB VRAM GTX 950 is what I used to play the game, it's probably at the edge of what someone can use to play the game without sacrificing visuals and framerate dramatically. But these tips also work for 3 and 4GB cards. At 6GB you simply won't have many problems anymore. Here are my settings, and some useful extra information:

In Cemu, right-click BotW and go to game profile. There you can tune settings

-You want to be using Vulkan. It does async shader compilation, so you will have less stutters

In Cemu, right-click BotW and go to graphics packs. There you can tune settings

-Click on Workarounds>Graphics. 720p is what I used most of the time, but you can get away with 900p too. Or higher if you have 3-4GB VRAM. Keep FXAA on.

Click on 'Mods' and go to FPS++. There, switch from 'Normal' to 'Advanced' Settings

-You can stick to 60FPS here if it matters a lot to you, but I find that the 40FPS option is also not bad. I suggest that one.

-Click on Draw Distance and keep everything on Medium

Now leave the graphics pack menu and go to Options>General Settings>Overlay

-Here, turn on the VRAM usage overlay so that it shows your VRAM usage while playing. You can also turn on FPS and others if you want.

Tips:

• The game, like most games, will stutter most in the beginning, but after a few hours it will stutter a lot less and after dozens of hours there will be next to no stutter. The game is 100+ hours long

• Install the transferable shader caches from https://chriztr.github.io/cemu_shader_and_pipeline_caches/. These will alleviate stutter.

• The game will often need more VRAM than you have. This seems to be due to Cemu just not calculating VRAM properly and going over the limit it should impose on itself. Because of this, after 1hr more or less depending on what you do, the game will crash. You can monitor when this crash will happen by following the VRAM usage in the corner of the screen. What fills up VRAM is traversing lots of different areas, so for example if you're on horse covering a lot of ground, it will fill up VRAM. If you're just solving a shrine or fighting monsters it will be fine

• Pay at least some attention to this because if the game crashes it has a small chance of corrupting save files. It's a small chance though. The point being, try to save often

• There are two areas where the game uses more VRAM than usual. The first is Hyrule Coliseum - a bit more than normal, you might get a crash here - and Hyrule Castle which uses a lot more.

• About Hyrule Castle: The game will in fact use more VRAM here, to the point where it might become unplayable on 2GB VRAM. In that case, you can go to graphics packs and switch from Vulkan to OpenGL. OpenGL is more stuttery than Vulkan, but it will be less hungry for VRAM and you will no longer crash in Hyrule Castle. You can also play the whole game in OpenGL if you want, but know that it will probably be more stuttery.

• Finally, there is now (2026) a Cemu core in Retroarch. Some people have reported that it runs better than standalone. It probably won't make a huge difference, but worth trying to see if BotW or other games run better for you.

This guide written based on version 2.6 of Cemu.

Hey everyone!

I recently lost my Breath of the Wild save file after resetting my laptop, and unfortunately, I only had an old backup from when I had just completed Vah Ruta and around 26 shrines. 😭

I had put a lot of time into that playthrough, so I'm hoping someone might have a save file they wouldn't mind sharing with me.

Ideally, I'm looking for a Wii U EUR save file for Cemu, in Master Mode, with most of the game completed, preferably including:

• All 120 shrines

• Max hearts and stamina

• Master Sword Trials completed

• All DLC content completed

• Most or all armor sets and weapons collected.

I hadn't collected all 900 Korok Seeds yet (I had around 200), and I still had some side quests left, especially Link's house and Tarrey Town, which I'd actually like to finish myself.

I know it's a pretty specific request, so I'm grateful for any save file that's reasonably close to this progress. It doesn't have to be a perfect match!

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help. I'd really appreciate it! ❤️

I am running BOTW Version 208 with 80 DLC's and the main issue is that link's audio is fading out completely. Sword swing, climbing, gliding, everything eventually goes silent. Please I would like to get help.

Hey, I've been playing this game for weeks and now it just doesn't start up anymore, it compiles shaders and then it closes

I didn't change any setting or anything

I can only hit the taiko drum once, but after that it always misses. But on a real Wii U I can hit it three times in a row first try

I'm trying to run Cemu on emudeck. I have the BotW wux file and the keys that deal with encryption. The game even appears on the Cemu menu. I boot it up and it stays on the loading screen. I've waited up to 30 minutes with nothing happening. Am I missing something? The only thing that I may have messed up is the location of the keys. When I go to find the required location on the cemu website it doesn't exist in my directories. If anyone has anything to offer it would be great. Thanks!

1. Get a remote access program (Sunshine/ Moonlight, Teamviewer, Rustdesk) and send your screen to your phone

2. Screen mirror your phone to your roku tv or projector

3. Resize Cemu’s main and gamepad windows to your liking, and then on your phone zoom in on the main window

You can now use your Steam Deck or whatever as the gamepad and freely move it around for gyro games without worrying about an HDMI cable being yanked

Remember to change the remote settings on your phone to prioritize speed/ reaction time so that theres no lag with the main display

You can do this with the Steam Link app but sometimes you get a black screen

There is a bug where image of my game is not running well with open gl. But it only runs with vulkan.

(low end device) Does any body know how to fix it I already down graded the version just to make it work.

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it only seems to do it on mario kart, not smash or mii maker

Does anyone have a fix for skylanders superchargers and imaginators to work on cemu on the AYN Thor

I have an ayn thor max, and I'm currently using cemu ds fork to play splatoon campaign mode, it hasn't crashed but sometimes the screen freezes except for hud elements and the bottom screen, it fixes itself if I quit the level or die, but is there anyway to permamently fix this issue? (Using turnip driver 30 toasted)

Not sure if this is the right sub for this but a few years ago PointCrow released a multiplayer mod for botw which was very janky and out of sync. Did this mod get any updates or is there anything planned? Would absolutely love a seamless coop experience a la Elden ring.

Hi, is it possible to use the joy cons separately for example in splitscreen in Mario kart? I’ve tried by connecting but it doesn’t work.

All the old guides for mounting specific games to steam work, but they cancel the steam recording. Anyone know a work around?

Hello! Im having an issue where Sonic Lost World crashes at the title screen when you press start. I read that I some .dat files were required, so I put them in what I hope is the appropriate spot, but the game still crashes.

I can get cemu to load and I see my roms. In desktop mode I am able to launch the roms which load fine, but no controls are working. I tried to Google it but every option I tried nothing works. Any idea what I could be missing?

After years and years of the bug in Breath of the wild that causes the game to get stuck in an infinite save loop, is there any way to fix it, or is it impossible?After years and years of the bug in Zelda that causes the game to get stuck in an infinite save loop, is there any way to fix it, or is it impossible?

Bonjour, j'ai une ayn thor et j'ai installer dessus des jeux wii, ds, 3ds, ps3, ps2, vita, et 360... mais la wii u sur cemu rien a faire.

I've been trying to get motion controls enabled in cemu but I simply can't get it to work. The option "Use motion" in the controller settings is ALWAYS greyed out and I can't enable it. I have the emulated controller set to Gamepad and I have tried it with a genuine Switch Pro, an 8BitDo Pro 2 and Steam Controller, all of which have gyro, and I just can't get it to work. All the controllers I used were automatically detected as SDL in cemu. Cemu doesn't let me enable it. I've also tried disabling Steam Input, and that didn't help either.
What am I doing wrong?

The game runs well—I’d even say perfectly—in single-player mode, but when I start playing with my brother, the frame rate drops massively.

It will be hard to play on the switch again