News on Cemu 1.7.3 (Patreon)

Cemu 1.7.3 will release on 10th March (CET) for 5$+ Patrons and a week later for everyone else.

This release will bring the following changes:

• Proper game patch support (details below)
• DLC support
• Slightly faster shader compilation
• Improved compatibility
• As usual, bug fixes and minor adjustments
  

Patch support

Until now, there was only very limited support for updating games. The more or less unofficial workaround was to copy & replace the update over the extracted game files. WUD/WUX games could not be patched at all.

Cemu 1.7.3 adds support for loading game files from a dedicated patch directory. You will be able to put patched game files in mlc01\usr\title\ and Cemu will automatically load updated files from there. This allows to patch both extracted games (launched via .rpx) and WUD/WUX images.

You might be wondering why the directory for patched files is mlc01\usr\title\ and not something more intuitive and short like patches\. The reason is that we try to imitate Wii U's real OS as closely as possible and that includes the file system structure.

DLC support

This feature hasn't been finalized yet so I can't provide any details. But similar to the patch system mentioned above, there will be a dedicated DLC directory. Any DLC content placed there will automatically be recognized and loaded by Cemu. More about this feature once the 1.7.3 release arrives.

Improved compatibility

One new game goes ingame! Guess which one :)

I made a sloppily edited video. Available here. (No audio because it's ear piercing)
Note that while it looks good on the surface, it's far from playable due to game breaking bugs and low FPS.